Friday and Saturday we were at the local homeschool convention. We found babysitters for all 7 kids (amazing friends!!) for the whole time, and we even got to stay in a hotel on Friday night (woot, woot!). We went out to eat on Saturday night. I’ve been craving beef, so we went to a steak … Read more
I have been playing with how to make my GAPS legal Chocolate Honey Cake more chocolatey, because I LOVE me some chocolate! Yesterday was The Farmer’s Birthday, so I had the perfect opportunity to practice and serve up these delicious chocolate cupcakes! So here’s the recipe for my Extra Chocolatey Chocolate Cupcakes! 1/2 cup butter (or … Read more
I was saving sugar in this container for over a year, "just in case" people came to my house and wanted sugar in their tea or coffee. I think we may have used it once during that time, most people are fine with honey. I decided that we didn’t need to keep the … Read more
I have been spending a lot of time in the garden. I got to thinking, really, who needs INSANITY when you’ve got one of these: Seriously? Yesterday I think I spent about 5 hours using something like this (mine isn’t this exact one, but close!). This kind of tool is AMAZING for getting out big clumps … Read more
I wanted to make GAPS legal stir fry. It’s an easy dinner, quick, and it would be amazing to have this perfected when summer veggies show their faces! 🙂 This isn’t going to be a recipe, but more of a list. How do you measure stir fry ingredients? Seriously. 🙂 My family … Read more
We wanted to share with you the rough plans that my husband drew up in Visio to go with Joel Salatin’s Pastured Poultry Profits . The book describes how to build the chicken tractor in Chapter 10, The Pen, but in a paragraph form. My husband used that paragraph to draw up these plans.
Oh this is amazing!! It is not GAPS legal (sorry!), but it is a healthy version of custard and oh so good!! Ingredients: 6 farm fresh eggs 2 cups raw milk 2 cups raw cream 1 cup Raw Honey 1/2 cup Raw Cacao Power pinch of salt Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Scald the milk … Read more
When I was a kid, I LOVED Yoplait Mandarin Orange Yogurt. Often, they would come out with peach yogurt and they’d stop carrying my favorite orange kind (though it was tricky, the peach kind LOOKED like the orange kind). I was sad. I liked the orange kind. Then, I think when I was … Read more
We’re on the GAPS diet, which is a big jump for a lot of people! We didn’t start here. My husband grew up on a lot of packaged and boxed, processed foods. I grew up on a lot of homemade dinners, but SAD ones (Standard American Diet, including Rice A Roni, Cream of Mushroom Soup … Read more