Archive for 'Recipes & Kitchen Commotion'
Making Lacto-Fermented Salsa (with Recipe!)
A few days back, Amy asked us to post our lacto-fermented salsa recipe. We use the basic outline of the recipe from Nourishing Traditions and tweak it a bit based on which fresh ingredients we have available at the time. Sometimes it has more bell peppers than other times, sometimes it has cilantro, sometimes not. […]
Posted: June 23rd, 2009 under Recipes & Kitchen Commotion, Healthy Living, Herbs & Homemade Medicine.
Comments: 11
Nursing Mommas and Dietary Oils
I was asked by a friend (several weeks ago - blush) about hydrogenated oils, and why I avoid them especially when nursing. Her comments were:
Since I read your follow-up to my comment on your twins I have been researching hydrogenated oils and their effect on breast milk and our bodies. I guess this is […]
Posted: November 28th, 2008 under Recipes & Kitchen Commotion, Healthy Living, Herbs & Homemade Medicine, Mommying & Raising Arrows.
Comments: 14
*Kosher* Holiday Cooking With Gelatin
Thanksgiving is upon us, and we love to get together with our extended family and feast, feast, feast. It is a great time for us to get together without the tension that can be a part of celebrations with relatives that are not believers. Somehow, the thankfulness that wells up in hearts on this day […]
Posted: November 24th, 2008 under Walking Humbly With My God, Recipes & Kitchen Commotion, Holy Days, Celebrations & Fun.
Comments: 10
Eating Fresh On A Two-Week Grocery Plan
When folks hear that I do our grocery shopping every six to eight weeks, they are often flabbergasted. Without exception, their first gasping question is always, “How do you have fresh produce?”, as if it were the Holy Grail of feeding a family. Granted, fresh produce is very healthy for us. Even conventionally grown, non-organic, […]
Posted: November 13th, 2008 under Recipes & Kitchen Commotion, Healthy Living, Herbs & Homemade Medicine, Frugality & Stewardship.
Comments: 10
Yummy Homemade Toothpaste!
If you are like me and use flouride-free toothpaste without SLS and other yucky ingredients, you are likely paying a lot for toothpaste. Any of the brands we have found that meet the criteria we are looking for cost about $5.00 per tube, for a not-so-family-sized tube. (If you don’t understand why someone would want […]
Posted: April 4th, 2008 under Recipes & Kitchen Commotion, Healthy Living, Herbs & Homemade Medicine, Frugality & Stewardship.
Comments: 54
Homemade Prenatal Vitamins
I stopped taking prenatal vitamins a few pregnancies ago because I don’t really feel comfortable with singled-out vitamins (out of their naturally occurring form, i.e. “food”). I looked around for a natural supplement as well, reading lots of ingredient lists and testimonials, but I either didn’t like the company well enough to buy from […]
Posted: April 3rd, 2008 under Recipes & Kitchen Commotion, Healthy Living, Herbs & Homemade Medicine, Frugality & Stewardship, Mommying & Raising Arrows.
Comments: 10
Nutrition During Pregnancy
I’ve been asked several times recently about nutrition and supplements for pregnancy, and have also been reviewing my own notes for my own pregnancy, so I thought I’d share here about this timely-for-me topic for my own benefit, too. I have done much research on this and had a bit of experiential data (i.e. I’ve […]
Posted: March 13th, 2008 under Recipes & Kitchen Commotion, Healthy Living, Herbs & Homemade Medicine, Mommying & Raising Arrows.
Comments: 11
I’ve Gotta Tell *Someone*
My seven year old son is particularly adept at dragging a day’s lesson of Explode-The-Code out for several hours. If I could find any verses referencing it (which, to his chagrin, there are none), I might be able to call it a spiritual gift. However, I am convinced that it is a gift to be […]
Posted: March 7th, 2008 under Recipes & Kitchen Commotion, Homestead Happenings, Healthy Living, Herbs & Homemade Medicine, Frugality & Stewardship.
Comments: 9
Leftover Oatmeal Transformed
After going through the trouble of making yogurt to save a jar of whey, buying from a co-op 50 pound bags of organic oat groats, rolling it into oatmeal, soaking the grain overnight in the whey mixture, cooking it and adding organic butter and coconut oil… I can not bear to throw the stuff away. […]
Posted: January 18th, 2008 under Memes & Randomness, Recipes & Kitchen Commotion, Frugality & Stewardship.
Comments: 12
Cincinatti Five-Way Chili
In honor of it being:
a) finally cold outside
b) Kitchen Day at our house (per the Large Family Logistics Plan)
c) a dish my family has been asking for,
I am posting my recipe for Cincinati Five-Way Chili. My Mother-In-Law came home from a work trip with this recipe about 12 years ago. While in Cincinati, she […]
Posted: October 24th, 2006 under Recipes & Kitchen Commotion.
Comments: none
Tincture Time!
I promised a post on making herbal tinctures, and here it is!
Everybody’s doing it. The more folks learn about natural health, and taking seriously the stewardship of their health, the more folks are learning about herbal medicine. Making your own herbal medicine is combining health stewardship and financial stewardship. Even Martha (who surely doesn’t view […]
Posted: October 17th, 2006 under Recipes & Kitchen Commotion, Healthy Living, Herbs & Homemade Medicine.
Comments: 17
Redeeming Lunch
Nesting seems to be covering many aspects of the daily workings of our home these days. I’ve been painting, cleaning, ditching stuff, and reworking systems to be more automated. Reinventing the wheel on a daily basis is not as efficient for me as reading a previously thought-out list of ideas. Read that: I don’t think […]
Posted: August 16th, 2006 under Recipes & Kitchen Commotion, Healthy Living, Herbs & Homemade Medicine, Frugality & Stewardship.
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Loaves, Fishes and New Pants
It is a fact. Life is not predictable. The weather doesn’t always do what I would like, nor does the IRS. Diapers flood on the way out the door, and children don’t always grow at the rate I expect. Growth spurts happen typically when I least expect them. The first evidence of their arrival is an increase […]
Posted: July 13th, 2006 under Recipes & Kitchen Commotion, Frugality & Stewardship.
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Our Idea of Family Bonding?
Folks spend their weekend evenings in all manner of ways. Some go out, some stay in. Some relax in front of the TV, others get a head-start on their weekend chores. Our family doesn’t have a set pattern for Friday night activities-we wing it based on whatever is going on at the moment.
This Friday night, […]
Posted: July 5th, 2006 under Recipes & Kitchen Commotion, Homestead Happenings.
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All Available Resources
Our second child, The Flower Child, was out this morning for her birthday breakfast with Dad. Tradition is, that while the birthday child is away, the rest of us scurry around to get party preparations in order, as well as start on any other weekend work.
Since I was missing one of my biggest kitchen helpers, others […]
Posted: July 1st, 2006 under Recipes & Kitchen Commotion.
Comments: 1
Live It Up Meals
The more folks you have in your family, the more variables there are. Three toddlers increase the odds of being late to church more than one toddler. Three boys sharing a room create a higher likelihood of finding crusty dried critters under the bed than one lone boy. Life is like this.
In some ways […]
Posted: June 23rd, 2006 under Recipes & Kitchen Commotion, Frugality & Stewardship.
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This Ain’t No Kool-aid
I can’t even pronounce the word, and I have no idea what it will taste like, but I’m game. I’m always up for trying something new in the kitchen. Especially something that comes with so much “good press” and favorable research about it’s healthful properties.
And just like any other kitchen experiment at our house: […]
Posted: June 15th, 2006 under Recipes & Kitchen Commotion, Healthy Living, Herbs & Homemade Medicine.
Comments: 1
Scoreboard for Mothering Success
I have at least one proof of my success in mothering. It happened tonight at dinner.
First, a little background. I am a crunchy type- you know, really into healthy eating: grain mill, Nourishing Traditions, raw milk and all that. I don’t hug trees, I just believe in good stewardship of our health. My kids have […]
Posted: June 12th, 2006 under Recipes & Kitchen Commotion, Healthy Living, Herbs & Homemade Medicine.
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Gargling Ketchup
These substances were never meant to be drunk. Gulped, guzzled or gargled, they miss their intended use. On the list of “Things-I-Never-Thought-I’d-Say”, is the frequent injunction to my children (namely those of the male persuasion), “It’s a condiment, not a beverage”.
I have never been a stickler for the purist mentality in feeding small children. […]
Posted: May 12th, 2006 under Recipes & Kitchen Commotion.
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