Menu Plan Monday

Due to a late evening of fellowship with my wonderful parents, I was unable to post my menu plan until now! Thankfully, I had hastily drafted it out on some paper earlier yesterday, so I wasn’t “without a plan” for tonight’s dinner!

This week’s menu was created around the principle of “use what you have” which [...]

Bieler Broth: A simple detox remedy

Henry Bieler

One of the reasons my family eats the way we do is because early in our marriage, my husband started to suffer extreme, unexplained pain in his abdominal area. After exhausting all of our conventional medical options and being tired of hearing “just try taking this pill and see how you feel” [...]

Thrifty Oreganic Thursday: Homemade cleaning part I

Everywhere we turn, it seems like we hear about going “green” or being sustainable. I very much agree with these notions, however I roll my eyes a little bit when businesses boast all of their “greenness” just to make a few extra dollars. And extra dollars you will pay, because if it’s [...]

Kitchen Tip Tuesdays: Sneaky Liver Tips & Tricks

Growing up, I used to hear adults sometimes say:
“What am I? Chopped Liver?”I never understood the reference, but when someone says that, they usually mean “what am I? Nothing special? Not a standout? A wallflower?”
As I was planning for tonight’s meal, I noticed that I needed to defrost some liver to chop and [...]

It’s Menu-Time Again! Week of July 20

This weeks post could have been cleverly titled “Weed: It’s what’s for dinner”, but I thought that might turn some people away! But the reason that slightly edgy title spewed forth out of my creative mind was because a weed, purslane to be exact, is the theme for the week.

Purslane is a common weed that [...]

Thrifty Oreganic Thursday

Well, technically it’s still Thursday! I am going to start a weekly feature with the aforementioned title, and it’s simply a snippit in keeping with the priciples of this blog. I will share something Thrifty that I think might be helpful to others striving to live in this ever-more-expensive world.
I try to eliminate [...]

Beef Tallow: How To, Uses, and Where to Buy

Rendered Beef Tallow

In a recent post of mine, Kimi, the Nourishing Gourmet and a fellow gluten free blogger (if I’m not mistaken!) asked how I used beef tallow. I decided that the answer was worthy of a new post:

I must give credit to Ann Marie and my dear friend K.L. for getting me excited [...]

This one’s for my mama: Peanut Sauce

Recently, my dear mother and I had the priviledge of attending one of the open-air concerts at our local zoo. We brought the kiddos and I had to pack a quick dinner that was tasty and transportable. The result? Thai lettuce wraps with a peanut sauce dip.
I basically made indian liver rice but cooked [...]

Green Popcorn

This is fast becoming our Sunday night “supper of choice”. My critical taste testing panel included one picky 3 year old and a somewhat finicky 18 year old. Both were licking the bowl when finished and asking for more! This is sure to please!
Sally Fallon writes “Popcorn is a nutritious snack [...]

Disturbing….

In a fascinating post by Ann Marie, one of her readers, “Craig” makes a very astute and somewhat disturbing comment that really brought it home for me:
“Our politicians fake their sympathy for the cost of health care, “food” andthe price of gas, yet over 70% of all the costs of health care are related toindustrial [...]

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