Handmade Hobbies
Sewing moods come and go for me. I've had some fabric on hand for summer clothes for the kids for awhile now, and realized I better get started on it before it is fall. It's hard to fit in personal sewing with all the Baby Vardo
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This week I am practicing the art of economy in cooking. In other words, I'm trying to figure out how to use what I have in my freezer and refrigerator before I go buy more food. This is mainly because I've already spent all my allotted
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Lately when I tell John we are having something homemade or made from scratch, he invariably finds an ingredient I didn't make. For example, the other day we had homemade chicken noodle soup. "Did you make the noodles?" he asked. And of course, I hadn'
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Today our our order came in from Nuts Online. I found the website while doing a search for unsweetened dried fruit. We ordered cranberries that are just dried cranberries, nothing added, bananas that are just dried bananas, nothing added, unsweetened coconut (that unfortunately does have a preservative added), and raw
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So far the only dairy related homemade product I've shared about has been butter. That's because the butter is the only thing that worked well. We made yogurt from goat milk, which did work, it just was very thin and didn't taste all that
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Well, it is now June. I spent yesterday shopping for some more needed items for this month's menus. I had put in my first order to Azure Standard, which is a bulk organic food website. Yesterday was the pick up day in Fayettville. So, in the morning, we
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I've been doing more internet "research" over the last few days on ingredients that I was unsure if we would use or not. I hate to call it research because I am just barely scraping the surface of knowledge that is out there, and I realize
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Sunday, we decided to try our hands at making butter. I've decided that as I experiment with making things, it is important to include the kids in the process. This doesn't come very naturally to me. I love cooking . . . by myself. Cooking with three extra pairs
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John brought this up this morning at breakfast. “Are you going to use sugar?” he asked. Thankfully I had already thought about this a bit already, and we decided that no, there were plenty of reasons why we shouldn’t make an exception for sugar. Not only is it “processed,
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The Challenge: Un-Processed Food Month The Goal: To significantly reduce the amount of processed/pre-packaged foods we consume. I’ve been talking about this for awhile now, and I decided it is now time to write it out. In June, our family will be undergoing a challenge to
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You know how you always think: "I'll remember this because it's important to me." And then you forget. I know I think I'll remember a lot of the fun and interesting things my kids do, but I know I won't.
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In my quest to see how many things I can make from scratch, I tried a couple more recipes from my new bread baking book: Healthy Bread in 5 Minutes a Day. This week I needed pita bread for one of our lunches. It was actually very simple to make.