I have been wanting to buy a yogurt maker for some time now but couldn’t settle on one. The ones with good reviews have plastic jars and I really would prefer to use glass jars. While researching yogurt makers online I found that you can make yogurt a number of ways without actually buying another appliance.
You can make it in your oven, crock pot, crocks and in a thermos.
A THERMOS! Who doesn’t have a least one of those buried in the back of a cabinet somewhere. In my case, a storage trailer sitting at Cill Dara.
I also have a small one that I had bought for DK’s work lunches before [...]
Making Yogurt sans Maker
Putting Food By
Which means preserving fresh food to have at a later date and can consist of any of the following; freezing, canning, drying and root cellaring.
The CSA and Orchard Share programs I joined this year have given me plenty of opportunities to do just that.
I have kept it mostly simple as that is what works for me. For instance, instead of spending an entire day preparing, cooking and canning tomato sauces I washed and froze whole Roma tomatoes in small batches after bagging them in my FoodSaver. I was given a tip a couple months back that if you intend on cooking with the tomatoes, freezing them whole allows the skipped step [...]
Thieves 1 ~ Doc 0
I made up a fresh batch of Thieves’ Oil today. It’s widely considered an effective defense against the cold and flu including the swine flu.
I figured it couldn’t hurt to use Thieves’ Oil since I have no plan to partake in the flu shot. The one and only time I did have a flu shot was when I was pregnant and my doctor told me to do so.
Heaving my guts out for 12 hours over a five month pregnant belly was seriously horrid.
So in this case I’m putting my health in the hands of the Thieves’ instead.
Sorry doc.
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Origins of green ~ part 1
While speaking to a dear friend on the phone yesterday, I was told I was not of this time. That I must have lived before in an earlier time period and it trickles out into this lifetime.
She was referring to all the earth loving, natural health/healing, food growing and gathering I do. It’s not as simple as all that, but you get the picture and I get what she’s saying.
Some of what I do comes from how, when and where I was raised. By crazy, un-self aware parents, during the first oil crisis in the Northeast. During the peak of that oil crunch my mom was a single parent and [...]
Keep on greening, keep on greening….
I know that it’s being literally pushed down our throats these days, the green thing that is and I mean that in loving, free range and organic way…. but have you considered the selfish side of green?
The part that keeps more money in your pocket?
When we moved into the Doublewide Dream Machine we were lucky enough to be gifted a washer and dryer. They were used and occupying a building that was being commercially renovated. This was great considering the stacked unit we picked up from Craig’s List was left behind at the vermin infested rental.
After Marty replaced the belts and pump, the washer worked without leaking and there was [...]
The fragility of it all…
What better time to start my new greenie blog then while being pissed off laid up due to a cracked rib. (It’s been a week now and I am officially bored beyond belief!)
I’m hoping that through this blog that I can inspire you to step up your green game and have you call me on where I need to step up mine.
For instance, instead of buying some gauze and big bandages for keeping my comfrey poultice applied to my ribs, I asked Marty to donate one of his tees from the gazillion in his collection.
I used a bit as the pad to smear with the poultice and a big wide [...]