kitchen

11 Alternative Uses For a Coffee Grinder

December 15, 2011

As 2011 comes to an end, we’re sharing helpful lists to help you save money, stay healthy, get organized, creatively repurpose, frugally gift-give, intentionally celebrate and more in our “11 Things for 2011” series throughout these holiday months.
As I've been learning that less is more and working hard to purge and pare down the things [...]

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9 Toxins to Remove from your Life

November 18, 2011

Written by Rachel, Contributing Writer
With my husband being a doctor, I have learned and am constantly learning new information about things in our everyday life that are dangerous to our health and are making our bodies toxic.
Although you might not know it, there are environmental, household, food and life factors that play a role in how toxic you are. From [...]

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Resources and Recipes to Make Your Meal Planning Successful

September 15, 2011

With the Plan It- Don't Panic meal planning challenge beginning this Monday morning, now seemed like the perfect time to share some really helpful resources to help you succeed with your menus.
Learn more about how to make meal planning work (and some different methods for doing it), find tons of my favorite online recipes and [...]

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Preserving the Harvest: Sweet Fruit Chutney

August 12, 2011

by Meg Dickey, Contributing Writer
Summer, and the fruit it brings, has a way of overwhelming many of us. If you've got a pile of peaches, plums, nectarines, apricots or any other kind of fruit sitting in the middle of your table, you need to figure out a way to deal with it! One of the [...]

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Training Kids to Help in the Kitchen

July 28, 2011

Knowing how to prepare real, whole foods is an absolutely necessary life skill that every child should learn. Children who are not taught the basics of food preparation will end up defaulting to processed, packaged foods, simply because they haven't learned to make anything better.
If we don't take the time to teach them, how will [...]

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Saving Money by Using Cloth

May 26, 2011

Cloth. Such a simple word. Only five letters. But, oh, what a money saver!
Think about all the paper products you use during the day. How many of them do you throw away once they've been used?
Now think about how many of those products could be converted to cloth, washed and reused.
Here's my list:
paper [...]

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Christ in My Kitchen

May 10, 2011

Written by Sharon Kaufman, Contributing Writer
A Divine Calling
Recently, while junking at my favorite thrift store, I found a kitchen blessing written on an old wall hanging. (Oh...the joys of thrifting!) I did edit it a little and added the last few verses. There was no name to identify its author.
But the poem reminds me why [...]

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Preserving Food with the Lactic-Acid Fermentation Method: Sauerkraut Tutorial

April 12, 2011

Written by Sharon Kaufman, Contributing Writer
The original cabbage patch kid...
For as long as I can remember, I've loved sauerkraut. As a small child, my mom served it on a regular basis with roast and mashed potatoes. I would scoop out a hole in my mashed potatoes, fill it in with sauerkraut and then dish on some gravy. Oh, what [...]

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Better, Cheaper, Safer 4-Way Soft-Scrubber

March 8, 2011

Written by Sharon Kaufman, Contributing Writer
Conventional household cleaners = money and toxins down the drain
Nowadays, consumers literally throw money down the drain with the industry's household cleaners that really don't even get the job done. But that's not the most serious consequence of using conventional cleaning products. Of course, I refer to the hundreds of [...]

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A Sweetheart’s Breakfast: Oatmeal Whole Wheat Pancakes and Homemade Pancake Syrup

February 8, 2011

Written by Sharon Kaufman, Contributing Writer
The heart bone's connected to the stomach bone
We don't eat pancakes too often anymore, but for Valentine's Day breakfast I'll be serving these luscious oatmeal pancakes to my hubby. After all, the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, right? Even after 34 years of marriage, this still [...]

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