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Why is homemade pie such a special gift?
It tastes good. REALLY good! It was created special. It’s Not from a production line stamped out for the masses, but just for you! Why? Because YOU are special! You are worth the extra time and effort to come up with the basic ingredients, research a recipe, and commit to the time it takes to create food as art that is homemade pie. Today I learned from the gal who inspired me to make homemade pie, that the no nonsense lady that inspired her to make homemade pies will be attending our monthly Girls Night Out event in a few weeks. YaYY! I’m excited to meet the inspiration agent that begat…
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Things going on at Dr. Flower headquarters…
If you look at the picture of the week, you’ll see a line up for fruit bushes purchased on sale that will be planted in a minimum of 3 backyards and one Farm! We are just a little bit excited to do some landscaping with the fabulous plants that are antioxidant producers! Will these lovely organic homegrown fruits end up in Dr. Flower’s All Natural Handmade soap? I’m betting NOT! They will however, nourish those that make these all natural goodies. What do we have? Blueberries, Raspberries (red and fall producing gold), thornless blackberries, kiwi, and figs! Chances are that you might see a few updates on the landscape…
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A Little Something for the Foodies!!
Dr. Flower is quite honored to be among the newest blogs approved for the Foodie Blog Roll sponsored by the Left Over Queen. One of the very first tag lines in the Dr. Flower handmade soap journey was, “You are what you eat and you are also what you put on your skin!” If you are striving to be the most healthful you with a smaller carbon footprint, you realize that EVERYTHING is connected. To be effective, we must look for solutions in a holistic manner. Skin care, food, attitude, gardening… I’m far from a trained chef (insert manic laugh here) BUT I have been influenced by many fantastic ones both celebrity…
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Joy of Sweet Potatoes
In our family, we have rediscovered the joy of sweet potatoes! I think it started out with an invite to a parent’s house where baked sweet potato was served instead of a russet baked potato. It was so yummy that I’ve been adding sweet potatoes to several of my main stay dishes since then. Did you know that sweet potatoes do fabulous in turkey soup? Well they do! We also cut up small potatoes and add a sweet potato to the mix when we saute potato slices as a side dish. So with all this talk about the joy of sweet potatoes AND it being prime planting season, it was…
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5 Neat Things about Georgia Spring Fling
Yesterday, I posted about my daughter being with me on Friday and the fun time we had here. Today, I want to go through 5 neat things about Georgia Spring Fling. The Spring blooms in Georgia! – Sometimes we get busy with our lives and we forget to just enjoy the blooms on the trees! My iPhone mapped me through the old part of Conyers instead of the short right off the highway route. I found that shorter route on my way home. If it hadn’t gone the long way, I would have missed the beauty of the blooming dogwoods and azaleas that the city of trees, Atlanta, is known…
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How To Clip Rosemary
How do you clip rosemary in your yard? The first question I’d ask, is how old is your rosemary bush? If your rosemary bushes have been around as long as mine have, the method of clipping rosemary can be a bit more involved. I live in gardening zone 8 which means that it’s warm enough here in the Atlanta area for rosemary to over winter without dying. That’s not to say that is doesn’t have its set backs from time to time, but over all my rosemary bushes thrive. Thriving rosemary bushes means they grow fast and must be clipped often. I usually remove the brown branches in the spring time…
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Here's ONE way to get folks to use soap! HA!
Well it seems a bit blurry but that’s Dr. Flower’s Lavender Clay Soap on each of those pictures! Work with me! Here’s a few more… My Mind’s Eye is ALWAYS about handmade Soap! and IF my kitties used handmade soap… My soap in the news and on billboards! These were all created with a cute program on the site, Photofunia. Thanks Alison for first playing with it! I might have taken a bit of a U-turn with it! Nothing like the dream of Product Shout outs!
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It's Thanksgiving! Time for goodies!
For those that have tasted our goodies and just want to cut to the chase for recipes, here they are! They are published in their native english units, but if you are a metric thinker, this quick link may help. http://www.convert-me.com/en/convert/cooking Mom Mowrer’s Cheesecake (crust) 2 cups Crushed Graham Crackers 1/2 cup Sugar 1/2 cup Melted Butter (Middle) 2 8oz Pkg Cream Cheese 2 Eggs 2/3 cup Sugar 1 Tsp. Vanilla (topping) 1 cup Sour Cream 2 Tbls Sugar 1 Tbls Vanilla Mix crust ingredients and press into cheesecake pan Mix middle cheese cake ingredients and pour in graham cracker shell Bake without Topping 20 min @ 375 degrees Let sit 20 min. Topping: Mix…
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Why name a soap Faustine Clay?
Perhaps folks wonder why I would name an all natural handmade soap faustine clay. I’ll tell you! The real story is that I’ve a dear friend with that nickname and she expressly asked for a handmade clay soap. My choice of clay was bentonite as it pulls dirt and oils from the skin. Those of us with oily skin can celebrate with this help! Bentonite clay actually forms from volcanic ash. (post on bentonite clay coming soon!) So how many folks immediately think of Roman times and culture that have been preserved in the ash of long since volcanic erupted Pompeii? Ok well we all can’t be geeks I realize,…
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Another use for loofah…scrubbing!
Those of you that are in charge of cleaning your homes, loofah makes a wonderful eco-friendly scrubbie too! It’ll scrub hard for you even with Dr. Flower handmade soap and then when you are ready, throw it in the compost when you are done! These are some of the places that I use my loofah scrubbies and handmade soap: Stovetop scrubbing Sink scrubbing Tupperware scrubbing
