Simple Lives Thursday, #55

It’s Simple Lives Thursday! My favorite day of the week where you share your tips and recipes for living a simple life. Whichever blog that you choose to link up your post, it will show up on all 5 sites! As a reminder, this blog hop is a way to share with many people your posts on what you are doing to live a simple life. Whether that’s gardening, raising urban chickens, homeschooling, sewing, making your own deodorant, or cleaning supplies… we want to know about it! If you’re into homeopathy, ways to save $ by conserving energy or other ways to live frugally… we want to know about it! If you bike, cook real food, homestead or farm… we want to know about it!

Your Hosts

1. Annette from Sustainable Eats
2. Wardeh from GNOWFGLINS
3. Alicia from Culinary Bliss
4. Mare from Just Making Noise
5. Me!

Please read and follow the Simple Lives Thursday bloghop rules

1. If linking real, traditional and simple recipes, please make sure all ingredients used are whole. Such as whole grains, vegetables, legumes, meats, even sugar. In order to keep the integrity of “nourishing” food, we will delete any recipes that utilize processed, boxed foods. We are definitely not going to be ingredient policeman, however, please note that this is a hop hosted by advocates of the real, local and sustainable food movements.

2. Please link your posts back to one of the hosting blogs. This is a common blog hop courtesy. This link helps build the Simple Lives Thursday community by sending your readers to all of the other participants posts. We all end up sharing and learning from each other.

Featured Posts from Last Week’s Submissions

We really enjoy reading your posts each week! Featured post bloggers, please grab the badge above and display it on your site! Link it to one of the host blogs’ posts for the specific week that you were featured.

Here are our picks from last week’s submissions. Thanks to all who participated — it is always hard to choose!

1. Cooking for Beginners: Garlic by Ruth’s Real Food.
“Oh my, the smell and taste of fresh garlic. Almost every savory dish is enhanced by its pungent taste. Fresh garlic is definitely one ingredient you’ll want to incorporate into your cooking.” Ruth covers how to purchase, store, peel and even use garlic.
We’re reposting this from last week because we got the link code wrong; many of you couldn’t get over there to read it.

2. My Kitchen Garden by Life In Green.
“A kitchen garden (also called a potager) is a separate area of your outdoor space that has a planned design and layout where you grow veggies, herbs and flowers.” Check out this blogger’s lovely potager!

3. The Wonders of Kombucha! by Mexican Wildflower.
“Want a to learn to make a “hip” drink that is delicious, beneficial for your health and that cost mere pennies to make?” Try Kombucha!

4. How to Filet Wild Alaskan Salmon by Homemade Alaska.
A wonderful photo tutorial on fileting salmon.

5. Sowing Seeds The Easy Way by The Cheerful Agrarian.
“I have to give credit for this idea to my Grandma Ada, via my dad. Whenever the topic of planting spinach came up (which, oddly, it did every so often . . .) he would tell me, “Ma always used to just let her spinach go to seed when it got hot out, and then the next spring she’d have the earliest spinach of anybody we knew!”