I love it when people send me cookbooks to review, especially ones like this!  As you might guess, The Homesteader’s Kitchen (Robin Burnside) emphasizes beautiful fresh produce.  Recipes include tempeh and chard enchiladas,  cucumber yogurt mint salad, and butternut squash pie with maple whipped cream. You can also learn to make vegetable smoothies, whole...
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OK, bear with me here, people.  I am definitely, definitely going to be doing fewer product reviews in the future, but I’ve got a few commitments to follow through on first, at least some of which might be interesting to you. There are just a few more days to enter the Juicy Juice $100...
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I hadn’t, until I got a sample of it along with a Moon Dough Barnyard play set.  Moon dough is a new kind of play dough that is soft, non-sticky, and marshmallow-like.  Best of all, the company says that the dough never dries out– hooray for that! The barn play set is fun.  Just...
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I love it when I’m asked to review cookbooks!  Most recent is Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Hacks, and Good Food, written by Jeff Potter.  I don’t really consider myself a geek, but I lovelovelove this book.  It’s part cookbook, part science book.  The science is presented as a series of engaging essays...
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I’ve always loved licorice,  especially as a treat in the car on a long trip.  But my husband and daughter don’t do well with food coloring– it gives them migraines.  So they usually skip licorice to be safe.  Recently, though, we were sent samples of “Natural Vine” Strawberry Licorice and Black Licorice.   The kids...
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Oh, the cuteness of this bag! Review here.
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I got two books in the mail on the same day a few weeks ago, which was an interesting coincidence, because I think the authors would find a lot of common ground. Palmer Chinchen wrote True Religion: Taking Pieces of Heaven to Places of Hell on Earth.  He challenges Christians to be part of...
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I got an email earlier this week from Jessica at Life As Mom.  She is doing Christmas in July this week, talking smart about budgeting, avoiding debt and other important ways to plan wisely for a meaningful, debt free Christmas.  Go check it out–looks like good stuff, and there are some good giveaways too. ...
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We’re just moving into berry season on our three acre micro-farm.  Yesterday my 5 and 8 year old daughters spent half an hour picking (and eating) raspberries.  Not many actually made it inside, but I felt pretty special when they graced me with half a cup of berries, complete with a note that said,...
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OK everyone, I’ve got a question for you! My husband reads chapter books to the kids every evening. He’s done this for two decades.  Over the years he’s read them many favorites: the Narnia series, the Little House series, Phantom Tollbooth, Swiss Family Robinson, Robinson Crusoe, Watership Down, the American Adventure series, and many...
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