Eating chicken intentionally. What exactly does that mean? This is a topic I've been wanting to share about for a while. Especially with those that are members of my menu plan on a budget to explain why there aren't many chicken recipes included. Don't get me wrong, there are chicken recipes included such as these adobo chicken tacos that I may share later this week ;) However, I'm speaking more about all of those wonderful looking chicken breast recipes that we're highly ... continue reading...
Creamy Asparagus Soup Recipe
Finally, it feels like Spring! The temperatures have warmed up and I'm tempted to step into my gardens and start cleaning up. At the least, I'll be rotating my compost piles this weekend. Its been a long winter of adding scraps of veg, chicken poop, and shavings from the coop. It needs to be rotated and aerated. I'm hoping to have a great batch of compost from last season to start my Spring garden off right. One thing I'd like to plant this year on my urban homestead is a patch of ... continue reading...
Traditional Nata
One of the best things to come from raw milk is nata. Nata is the cream that thickens and congeals from boiling raw milk. It's naturally sweet, creamy, silky, and tastes absolutely fabulous dolloped on top of toasted homemade, European style bread. Today, many people that drink raw milk are under the assumption that its a traditional practice. Really, the way its gone mainstream specifically within various health groups is quite modern. Traditionally, the people that drank raw milk were ... continue reading...
Simple Lives Thursday, #140
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...
Confessions of a Cloth Diaper Ebook With Freebies!
I want to take a short break today from food and talk about something I know many mamas out there use and many more are curious about... Cloth diapers. I've been cloth diapering Little Mama since she was 1 month old. After 8 months of diapering her in cloth, I can personally tell you, its been easy; for myself and my husband. When it came to my older two, I wanted to cloth diaper them, but was fearful. I had many questions and no good resources to get me started. Sure, there was ... continue reading...
