I won the book, Cleaning Up the Clutter in a giveaway hosted by My 1/2 Dozen Daily. Although I have read through most of the book, I am still working on chapter one: How to Feel Personally Organized. My house is clean and fairly well organized, yet I often feel disorganized. In large part thisRead More
Baking Tip: How to Make a Level Cake
Actually this is less of a baking tip and more of a cutting tip. To create a level layer cake, use a bread knife to cut the rounded top off and using the cake pan as the guide: I saw the knife in a bit, then slowly spin the pan while cutting. (Feed the topRead More
Honey Cake
I have been playing with alternative sweeteners lately. My favorite is brown rice syrup, with honey a close second. Honey is sweeter than brown rice syrup, so you can use less of it in recipes, making it easier to create a balance between your wet and dry ingredients. The other advantage honey has is that IRead More
Dinner Menu – Week of March 1rst
My menu plans have changed a lot over the years; primarily to meet the needs of my family. I have done once a month planning and cooking, a bimonthly rotation, a weekly plan that included breakfast and lunch, and a very loose plan where we had certain planned nights (i.e. Italian, Mexican, Pizza, salad, etc.),Read More
Favorite Finds From The Blogosphere
I have found that time passes quickly if I read blogs on my phone whenever I am in a situation where I have to wait for a while (and blogs are so much more informative and entertaining than the magazines in waiting rooms). Below is a list of some of my favorites posts from theRead More
Flaunting My Rhubarb
I wish I had flowers to flaunt, and some day I will:But I do have rhubarb to flaunt: My rhubarb is rebounding this year and I couldn’t be happier. They went through quite an ordeal last year, but they seem to have forgotten all about it! Two years ago, I was introduced the the conceptRead More
Stop Throwing Out Your Broccoli Stems!
Each week I participate in Food Waste Friday hosted by The Frugal Girl. Monitoring my food waste and taking a picture of what has gone bad each week keeps my accountable and motivates me to remain vigilant in my goal to minimize, if not eliminate, food waste in my household.This ice-cream started to sublimate. MyRead More
How Am I Going to Clothe My Children on The Compact?
Have you wondered how I am going to clothe my children while committing to the The Compact this year? That question can be answered in large part by visiting Angela today at My Year Without Spending. She has once again featured one of my daughter’s thrift store finds on her latest installment of Thrifty Threads. Angela participated inRead More
Everything But The Kitchen Sink Cake
Lemon Poppy Seed just sounded too boring for this cake. I wanted to convey that it didn’t contain refined sugar by calling it Honey Lemon Cake, but my daughter said that sounded like a cough drop. The name was clinched when my two year old pulled up a chair and started throwing things in. Fortunately, mostRead More
Minimizing Toilet Paper Waste By Toddlers
We have a fourteen year gap between our second and third last child. I feel like I am having to learn how to parent all over again. I am sure that I have forgotten more than I ever actually knew. Most child rearing tips come back to me AFTER an incident. This tip is noRead More
Snow Lollipops
The lollipop sticks are the legs of an inverted table. As the snow accumulated it was slightly pushed over by the wind. It continued to accumulate in this manner until each leg of the table had a lollipop comprised entirely of snow on top. This post has been linked to Outdoor Wednesday and Wordless Wednesday.
Homemade Chewy Granola Bars
My daughter loves granola bars, but I don’t like the expense of buying my daughter’s favorite granola bars. I experimented with ingredients while my daughter acted as taste tester. Although she hoped that I would continue to fail, so I would have to keep whipping up new batches for her to try, I finally foundRead More
Sweetened Condensed Milk Substitute
Just because we are living out of the pantry does not mean we (and when I say we, I mean my husband) can do without essentials like French Vanilla Creamer. My creamer recipe calls for sweetened condensed milk, which I do not have on hand. There are some great suggestions for making your own creamer inRead More
My Menu Was Hijacked By a Snow Storm
I am afraid that I spent more time feeding all of the animals on our property yesterday than I did my family. After fixing the horses heated water buckets, my husband jumped in and made waffles. There was much snacking on cookies and cocoa and we made a dinner of leftovers and popcorn, so nobodyRead More
Strawberry Jam Sweetened with Honey
I experimented with making jam from frozen strawberries from last fall’s harvest. I was disappointed that the berries were not sweeter so I compensated by adding honey. The jam took longer to set than when I have made jam with sugar, but it did set within 24 hours. It also was less red in appearance,Read More
It’s Not Much, But It’s Hot
I like to save the broth from Swiss Steak and use it to make a hardy stew. Sometimes, I refrigerate the broth and follow with stew a couple of days after I make Swiss Steak. However, I usually freeze the broth and pull it out on a day when I want to throw together aRead More
Sautéed Green Cauliflower
Green cauliflower, sometimes called broccoflower, is one of my favorite vegetables. It was readily available when we lived in sothern California, but now it is rare to find it in grocery stores, making it a special treat. It has the texture of cauliflower, but is more flavorful. Ingredients: 2 Tablespoons olive oil2 Tablespoons diced bellRead More
Menu Plan – Week of February 14th
Sunday – Barbecue Steak, Brown and Wild Rice, and Sautéed Green Cauliflower Monday – This will be the last batch of Vegetable Garden Minestrone Soup that I can make with vegetables frozen from last summer’s garden. I will also serve a salad and Gluten Free Crusty Boule Bread. Tuesday – Use leftover steak in SteakRead More
My First Garden Purchase of the Year
We have spent the last couple of weeks alternating between snow days and sunny 45 degree days. The warm sunny days make me start itching for spring, but I know that the night time temperatures will regularly drop below freezing until early May. So I consoled myself with the impulse purchase of two 3 footRead More
Easy Way to Roll Out Shortbread or Sugar Cookies + Shortbread Recipe
The great thing about Shortbread, besides the fact that it is made of pantry staples, is that your children can pretend it is Lembas Bread. The bad thing about shortbread is trying to roll it out! After discussing the problems of rolling out shortbread with a friend, I decided to post pictures of how IRead More
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