Black Eyed Pea Curry Recipe
I love black eyed peas. They’ve got this deliciousness to them, a mild sweetness that makes them one of the yummier beans out there. Here’s a curry made with black eyed peas that I think you’ll enjoy! It’s got a lot of different spices which make it have a rich flavor without needing to buy […]
What Can Go Wrong in a Homebirth?
I am planning on having a homebirth in the near future. When I tell people this, some people get such a look of horror on their face! It’s as if I’m telling them that I’m planning on killing my baby, God forbid, or doing something so dangerous like jumping out of an airplane without a […]
Homemade Cloth Postpartum Pads Tutorial
I’ve been busy getting ready for the upcoming birth of my third child, running here and there getting various errands run, connected to things I’ll need during and after my home birth, as well as for my child after he/she is born. On Saturday, I was having about a million and five contractions, Braxton Hicks […]
The Lack of Christmas Related Posts on this Blog
A perceptive reader noticed something about my blog and made an apparent discovery, using super sleuthing skills. Because the whole frugal blogosphere is abuzz at the moment with tips on how to keep the costs of Christmas down and not give in to the spending insanity, the fact that I haven’t even had one post […]
Hearth and Soul Blog Hop
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Hearth and Soul Blog Hop, where each week, cooks from around the globe share their most delicious, nourishing, and heart warming recipes. The cooking carnival where you come to share your best kept cooking secrets, those recipes with the magic ingredient in it called “Soul Spice”- the made […]
Kasha with Noodles Recipe
Rice, rice, rice. Potatoes, potatoes, potatoes. I have to admit, the starch options on a gluten free diet can get pretty boring after a bit… This is a yummy food that my parents used to make growing up- I’m European by decent, and this is a food that has been in our family for generations. […]
Keeping Your Kids From Overloading on Sweets This Holiday Season
This is a guest post by Nancy Evans. She is freelance writer that specializes in health and business. Keeping Your Kids From Overloading on Sweets This Holiday Season Generally, I try to keep the sweets away from my kiddos. I don’t like thinking of my children being addicted to sugar like so many others, and […]
Gizzard “Meatballs” Recipe
Chicken gizzard “meatballs” in tomato sauce. The flash made it look more orange than it really was. It was a dark red, really. Gizzards are pretty much the cheapest meat I can get locally. They also happen to be very, very nutritious, chock full of iron and other vitamins and minerals, being as they’re organ […]
Bulk Buying with No Extra Money
I remember, once upon a time, when I first heard of the concept of bulk buying. It was touted as being the cure all to people’s grocery shopping woes, the way to be able to cut your food bills significantly. “Very nice“, I’d say to myself, “but totally unrealistic. I am not making it through […]
Living without Gas- A Challenge
Image: graur codrin / FreeDigitalPhotos.net I have a reputation that precedes me. I mean, how can I not, being the person behind a blog such as this, where I talk about things like using reusable toilet paper (aka family cloth), or cooking in the sun, and have recipes for ingredients that others would throw in the […]
