Eggs & Greens
This is a staple breakfast of mine largely because it is so simple and all of the ingredients are always in my home. [amd-zlrecipe-recipe:2] Today the greens were rainbow chard from…
Doesn't this salad look delicious? My recipe today was adapted for seasonal on hand ingredients from this one at Peanut Butter and Peppers.
Chicken Salad Picnic
Where I live every night of the summer we have Music in the Park from 7-8:30pm. It is such a lovely way to spend a summer evening that I find…
Cherry Crisp
[amd-zlrecipe-recipe:1] This recipe is adapted from The Recipe Boy Blog where he adapted it from The Fruit Orchard cookbook he scored from a local orchard in Virgina. The tasty crisp…
Chicken Bone Broth
After we roast our chicken I make broth from the carcass in the same roasting pan. I recently learned that adding salt too early in the broth process is crazy…
Baby Greens Salad
A huge salad for lunch has got to be one of my guilty pleasures in life. Curling up into a chair with a book, a bowl and a fork is…
Fancy Simple Chicken Dinner
Tonight we made a belated Father's Day dinner. I had wanted to finish it off with a cherry pie ironically I've been too overwhelmed with cherries to accomplish it! Our…
Your Child’s Most Important Teacher
“You will not be good teachers if you focus only on what you do and not upon who you are.” ― Rudolf Steiner As parents our role in our child’s…
Seasonal spring eating
This is the second last bag of corn in our freezer. Will definitely do more next year. Posted from WordPress for Android
Favorite Essential Oil Blends
I have been using essential oils in my home as a natural way to keep me and my family healthy and balanced since long before it was trendy. Before the days of DoTerra and Young Living there was a gorgeous store in my home town called Sage which sold essential oils, diffusers and a few select blends. That was decades ago.
Fast forward to today and the internet is filled with recipes, remedies and recommendations for oils to use in your home. Long ago Sage published an amazing little brochure that had everything you might ever want to know about essential oils on a legal size sheet of cardstock. That brochure was folded in my medicine cabinet for many many years before I spilled a carrier oil on it and the lettering slowly started to fade. I wrote the company asking if they perhaps still made the brochure and if I could buy one. I had referenced it so many times over the years I couldn’t really imagine my life without it. They informed me that alas due to legal restrictions on “medical” advice they were no longer allowed to publish the brochure. (more…)
Eggnog Season: The Best Eggnog Recipe
Well as it turns out I love eggnog. Who knew? My son is a fan and so as the dutiful mother I searched the internet and made him some because there was no way I was going to buy a carton of the stuff. Apparently it’s really easy and my raw milkshake is really eggnog without the spices. Jeez if only I had known. (more…)
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Fall Salads
Once you have started eating seasonally you start to have a whole new relationship and appreciation for lettuce. What once may have been taken for granted becomes an almost holy…
Seasonal Snacks: September
It's September and that means school is back in session and that means busier schedules, lunches and after school snacks. Don't let that be a reason to slip up on…