My Best ~ Grand Pup ~ Peaches

I've never been one to eat oranges. I'm not sure why, or maybe it was not introduced to me on a regular basis growing up? Anyway, I am doing my best to be vigilant with all good foods this winter (on account of sickness on the rise too). Clementines have made their way into my diet for the first time in a long time. Regularly. It's hard to find organic citrus this time of year too. The store even cut back the size of bagged organic apples (so no canning applesauce yet).

I have also realized, with my scale not moving for weeks, that I am not getting enough protein (or I'm building muscle right now). I've been adding more to my breakfast and lunch now. Black beans mashed with onion (cooked in the crock pot all day), topped with home canned yellow squash relish has been my favorite to eat with eggs lately.

Of course I can't eat the same thing every day, so I'm on a mission to mix things up, and get more natural protein.

I'm working on another high packed protein breakfast dish. I hope to try it soon too.

Here is Jesse, giving me the stare down at dinner time. This time it was him who wanted fed early. He whined and whined for an hour at me. He is now back with his Mom. I'm sure he enjoyed his visit with us too. He loves wandering the pasture and sniffing everything.

While looking around in my freezer, looking for who knows what, I found peaches. To my delight, I decided to make us a peach cobbler.

It was dark when I took the photo. It was cooling in my bedroom because I have "food sharks" and it was late.

I used Einkorn's Triple Berry Cobbler recipe (it's online on their website), but used the frozen peaches instead. I figured if I didn't have a full 3 cups I could add blueberries to it, however I had plenty of peaches. I used brown sugar (3/4 cup) in place of 1 cup sucanat. It turned out delicious. The only thing I would do next time, is add something to it like cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, cloves or mace. It just needed a tad of flavoring to compliment the peaches.

Apples and Tomatoes Oh My!

The early morning weather here has been downright chilly. One morning it was 42 degrees. Flower beds have been weeded. The herb garden is next in line, but I do need to figure out what to do with all the rosemary plants I planted in the actual vegetable garden. I have not mastered keeping them alive all winter indoors. They will not survive the winter if left outside. Did any of my blog writing followers locate a better "blog" platform online? Just curious if anyone is moving from blogger.

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Under the Weather ~ What's Growing?

I have not been around in blogland much, due to being under the weather after I pushed myself way to far one day. I have to remember we cannot do it all in one day. Thank goodness for teas and tinctures, and healing foods (and rest). We are feeling better. As for our blogs being used for advertising on many websites, and so forth (I can't see any other reason for the source of views: howstuffworks, dominospizza, mayoclinic {not the blog readers interested in my actual blog}) the numbers continue to climb. I have not found a way to "opt" out either. If any of you find a new way to avoid this, blog elsewhere, find a new platform etc, please be sure to share. If your blog has ads, you are are not going to complain, ha ha! You are probably making a bucko-bucks with all these visitors to your blog. Okay, back to the update post . . .

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16 Weeks Until Christmas

It's not hard to believe that we are traveling closer to the winter holidays. I'm trying to focus on enjoying every single day until then, but I am fitting in a few snippets of holiday preparing. Christmas is my favorite holiday of the year. It's hard to believe it's the last day of August. I have not yet gotten rid of the links to all the advertisers using my blog posts, but again, still working on it. However, my profile has gone from my blog, and while I am in settings, it is not able to add as a "gadget" to the blog. Weird things are happening. Google had a data breach recently as well, so gmail users were advised to change passwords. Not sure what else is going on, but just in case you are wondering why my "profile" is not on my blog any longer. Okay, back to the Christmas countdown post . . .

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