Our demo plans for our kitchen have been pushed back a couple of weeks. Because we decided to have our contractors hand build all the windows and doors for our mudroom, being built off the back entrance way to our kitchen. The glaze is drying on the windows, and the final door is being made […]
It’s Monday, and I’m drinking fresh herbed tea
It’s Monday and I’m still trying to get back into the swing of things from being out of town this weekend. Every time I come home from being gone, I have an urgent need to rearrange, renovate and reorganize EVERYTHING in my house. This is partly the result of living in an old house. I […]
Planting a backdoor garden with herbs and tomatoes
I love to cook with fresh herbs. Who doesn’t? But what I love even more than cooking with them is having them growing right outside my kitchen door. Along with tomatoes. All summer long I can step out my backdoor, gather tomatoes, basil, chives, dill, cilantro, and more – and whip up some fresh pesto, […]
Tips for visiting a you-pick strawberry farm with kids
Tuesday after school we visited the Care of the Earth Community Farm to pick strawberries. It’s the Community Supported Agriculture group that we belong to, led by Farmer Megan. With my major canning done, this experience was for the kids. What strawberries they don’t eat, I’ll freeze to make smoothies. When taking children to a […]
Canning strawberry jam – you CAN do it
I few years back I never thought I would have been canning my own strawberry jam. I was a city gal when my first baby was born, in Atlanta. Then I moved to Knoxville, Tennessee and saw a flyer for the town’s first Holistic Mom’s Network meeting. Going to those meetings I met real moms […]
An update after the 10 Day Real Food Challenge
Continuing our efforts from the 10 Day Real Food Challenge, to eat more real food and buy less boxes of crackers – here’s what we’ve been up to as we work to replace some of the beloved kid favorites at our house. Wondering what I would end up with, I experimented on the fly by […]
Our first CSA delivery this season, how we eat it and how we store it
Wednesdays are exciting here at our now BLUE house, that is getting painted from previously being known as The Brown House. On this day, our sidewalk turns into a pick up place for eight families to get their CSA (community supported agriculture) produce from Farmer Megan, of Care of the Earth Community Farm. This is […]
10 Day Real Food Challenge Wrap Up, banana muffins and making yogurt
As you probably read, we joined ChildOrganics in her 10 Day Real Food Challenge based on the 100 Days of Real Food website. The 10 days is up and I want to share a little more about what worked for us in trying to eat by the rules. During the process, I reached my goal of reaching […]
Naturally dyed fresh Easter Eggs – Happy Easter!
Our family really, actually likes eating hard boiled eggs. We slice them, salt and pepper them, make egg sandwiches out of them, have deviled eggs, and my girls eat them up like apples – bitting into them whole. We gobble them up! We also really like farm fresh eggs. If you’ve never had eggs from a […]
Homemade Pizza Making with Children
My kids could, and would, eat pizza everyday if I would let them. We have been making homemade pizza, with dough from scratch using our own milled flour, for a couple years. Since we are in this 10 Day Real Food Challenge, I’m sharing our favorite pizza dough recipe and tools for having children make […]