30 Day Health Challenge 2.0 – Day 1
Deja vu? Nah. Doing it again! I joined a friend in her group challenge last November called the Eat Clean and Get Lean Challenge. She issues the challenge every six months as a sort of reset to get back or keep on track with healthy living. The requirements are to follow a 30 day food elimination […]
Homemade All-Purpose Scrub
Why use expensive chemicals to clean? We began replacing harsh chemical cleaners with natural ones a few years ago. I was always put off from the harsh burning smell of cleaning chemicals and cover perfumes, and I can remember trying to hold my breath as much as possible while cleaning even as a teenager. […]
Dark Days Challenge – S.O.L.E. Roasted Chicken with Brussels Sprouts, Green Beans, Potatoes, and DUCK FAT!
the last local organic pastured chicken from my freezer roasted to optimal crispy skin deliciousness local, organic Brussels sprouts roasted in yep, you guessed it, duck fat the non-local dish: organic haricots verts sauteed in duck fat (we like them well done) lovely local, […]
Dark Days Challenge – S.O.L.E. Chicken with Onion Salad
S.O.L.E. sustainable organic local ethical My first contribution to S.O.L.E. cooking is a dish of boiled chicken, a dollop of chicken schmaltz, and a simple salad of sliced onions and parsley (Celtic sea salt and Bariani olive oil from California are non-local additions). Through my real food journey, I have learned that meals do not have to be […]
December Deep Clean, Week 1 Plan
Here is this week’s cleaning list. For full explanations of what things like detail dusting are and why I dust mop the walls, see the FlyLady’s website. She gives wonderfully detailed instructions that will allow you to tweak the cleaning to your needs. These lists may require some adjustments as I go through them. I apparently didn’t finish my control journal, ahem. […]
FlyLady December Deep Clean – Get your Home Ready for the Holidays!
During the month of December, I will complete a floor to ceiling deep clean of my home to get ready for Christmas and the new year ala FlyLady. The FlyLady is Marla Cilley, an amazing woman who selflessly shares her tips for organizing and cleaning and has built a conglomeration of self-help gurus freely offering helpful information […]
What is a Locavore? The Dark Days Challenge
With all the new buzzwords, it can be hard to keep up. Locavore, ustainable, eco-friendly, WAPF, traditional foods, lacto-fermented, and slow food are some of the terms that are becoming important to people tired of the mass-produced everything in our lives. What is a locavore? Taking things one step further, a locavore is someone who strives to […]
30 day Health Challenge – Day 26-30, Sick, My Issues with an Allopathic Doctor, and What’s Next!
Well, I’m not finishing out the challenge very well. I’ve been down and out with an unfriendly virus or bacteria. When I get sick, my endocrine system tends to crash and my main symptoms become tiredness and weakness. It feels a bit like a cross between mono and the side effects of a lengthy fast. Not fun. […]
30 day Health Challenge – Day 25
Update 11/29/11: I’ve been sick so didn’t finish the log for day 25. The egg nogg did not go voer well at all. My stomach was not happy with it in any way so that will not be a repeated treat. I don’t remember the rest of the day so there’s not much of a […]