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10 reasons I'm an Indie!- Indie Beauty Tag Party
Ok so today IS my day to reveal a bit about me as I’ve been tagged this morning by two different sources. I’m gonna hit two birds and do them both right here! This post is part of Indie Beauty Blog Tag Party. Lisa Rodgers of Cactus & Ivy tagged me as the 2nd tier of blog tag from Donna Maria’s Blog post. Now this makes it a bit harder because who wants to read the same things! Now I have to be creative. Oh wait, I Do have that in me! 10 Things I love about being Indie: Dern it…I’ve got a number here and I can’t write! I’m…
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Wordless Wednesday Jan 21, 2009
encounter in the woods
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Homemade peanut butter, hard to make?
If articles like this (Little Debbie Adds Snack Food to Salmonella Peanut Butter Recall) or this (http://www.fda.gov/oc/opacom/hottopics/salmonellatyph.html) worry you, it might be time to KNOW exactly what is in the food you eat. It may save you time, money, and health in the long run… Here are a few links on how to make peanut butter yourself: http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Peanut-Butter http://www.mahalo.com/How_to_Make_Peanut_Butter – nice variations! http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A824410 Amazing that oil, peanuts, salt and a bit of molasses is really all the ingredients that you need. Be sure to stash your homemade peanut butter in the refrigerator…it cuts down on the oils going racid. 🙂 Do you remember when Kroger used to have the peanut…
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Green Drink:Fresh Appletini, worth the trouble?
If you follow me on twitter, then you know that I got a Jack La Lane Power Juicer for Christmas… Psstt It was really given to my husband! He pulled the goodie out of the box, cleaned it, set it up on the kitchen counter, and said “fix me a drink woman”! *laughin’* That’s not exactly how it went because as he was inspiring the possibilities, he was really looking at our daughter too! We did some experimenting with different recipes in the book that came with the juicer. Most turned out quite nice! When we made the fresh apple juice recipe with green granny smith apples, the green color…
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Sevananda Natural Foods Co-op
Yesterday I posted about the Cooking with Tea class that Life Chef (aka Asata) taught at the Sevananda Natural Foods Co-Op. I had little time once I got to the store for the class to start so I quickly paid for the course and headed downstairs for the class. After the class was over, I purposefully didn’t schedule anything to do so that I would have time to browse the market. I had just tried many tasty dishes so the creative cooking juices were flowing by the time I was ready to shop! I grew up in the Atlanta area. I lived in a house in Morningside in my earliest…
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Cooking with tea – Life Chef class
Hey there! If you follow me on twitter, then you know that on Saturday I went to an amazing cooking class at Sevananda Natural Foods Co-Op taught by Life Chef (Asata) called cooking with herbs and tea. Asata (pronounced As-ah-tah) created some amazingly healthy dishes that promoted the flavors of tea in different forms. She gave us a hand out chock full of facts about tea and how to brew it. Amazingly, your utensils AND ingredients can vary the tastes of tea. The purity of water is important as well as the temperature in which you brew the tea. She gave us a copy of the latest tasteforlife magazine that…
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♪ Why are there so many? ~songs about rainbows? ♪
♪ ♪ …and what’s on the oooootttthhhhherrr side? ♪♪ I’m not all about wordless Wednesday but I saw this driving today and it absolutely must be shared! Sign of the covenant! Make you smile! Bring joy to a cloudy day! Happy 1st Wednesday of 2009
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Salad Dressing, Does it make or break your salad?
I guess I got into making my own salad dressings from scratch after trying the South Beach Diet. I think right around that time, there were reports on the news about how bad high fructose corn syrup is for you. It seems that many salad dressings along the grocery aisle have this ingredient in them. Go check the labels, you will be amazed how this ingredient is in almost EVERYTHING. Part of the reason that doing things from scratch appeals to me is that I know exactly what is in it. Now I realize that many chefs are tired at the end of the day and don’t really have time…
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Pointing out a few twitter garden posts that are worthy!
Here are a few posts that I thought were important to point out in more than one place. (twitter) drflower post: You’ve just boiled some veggies on the stove & have a pot full of water left. Don’t pour it down the drain, use it to water plants! (cooled) drflower post: Nutrients from foods like pasta and veggies will serve your house plants well, giving them added vitamins instead of your drain. drflower post: I water my plants with leftover coffee sometimes (black) – and old green tea. both are acidic so little goes long way 🙂 twitter friend post: @drflower what does that do? That sounds harmful to plants…curious…
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Feeling that scratchy in your throat? What do you drink?
Wow! It’s been almost a decade ago when I traveled pretty regularly to the Netherlands for work. In my time there, I found that Irish pubs seemed to help cure the homesickness that comes with an extended stay abroad. With the jetlag and candle burning at both ends due to work, (teehee! …now I MAKE the candles and burn them at my leisure!) it was easy to develop a scratchy throat from being run down. The feature at the irish pub would of course include Irish whiskey by the name of Jameson. The cure was almost immediate! I began to order the drink just to study what they did to…
