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 4 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 ... continue reading...
Warm Yourself with a Bowl of Homemade Tomato Soup
The gardening season is just about over at my house. As much as I enjoy to work the soil, the colder months bring me added hours of rest. After a long harvest season of freezing, canning, and preserving, rest is something I look forward to. Although I'm still harvesting fall greens, root vegetables, and very soon, Brussels sprouts, I'm starting to clean up my backyard garden which has seen my summer crops to fruition. Today I plan on amending that garden area by adding homemade compost, ... continue reading...
Simple Lives Thursday, #169
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 4 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 ... continue reading...
5 Real Foods to Help You Prevent a Cold or Flu
I'm over at Keeper of the Home today sharing a post on 5 Real Foods to Help You Prevent a Cold or Flu. I share some great tips on how I like to keep my family healthy. I still can't believe that we haven't come down with any significant illness since January of this year...fingers crossed ;) Head on over because I'm also sharing with you my mami's recipe for a condensed version of puchero andaluz. Rich and nourishing, it's one of my families favorite meals to eat in this ... continue reading...
Slow Cooked Cider Pork Chops with Pumpkin and Apples
I know I've mentioned that fall isn't my favorite season but my, oh my, do I ever love the seasonal foods in this time. Pumpkin, squash, cider, apples, spices of nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves, cardamom, and...pork. Yummy, fatty, heritage breed, pastured pork. If you haven't yet purchased your hog this year, this is your reminder that it's the season to start checking in with your family farmer for good, local, and sustainably raised pork. With everything good about fall in hand, I made a simple ... continue reading...
