The only thing, until now, that I have used coconut oil for was soap making.  I had read so many bad reviews on it, considering it's pre...

If you have not made homemade flour tortillas you really should try them.  They are fairly easy to make.  Shop in the organic section of you...

Hubby was up very early yesterday.  He was already busy working on projects that have loomed over us.  One is the trash can.  When we moved...

I revamped the family favorite broccoli salad yesterday.  The original recipe calls for Marzetti Slaw Dressing.   I looked up the ingred...

Sunday we finally sat around and simply enjoyed ourselves.  We tossed around the idea of going bowling, but the more we relaxed and took tim...

Sunday was a full work day here - wood pellets restocked, wood cut, split and stacked, animal feed restocked, and  chicken coop cleaned.  Wa...

Why onion soup?  Because I have nothing else to write about today (yet).    Believe it or not, I am still deep cleaning here and there (th...

In my quest for locating more good millet recipes, I found some in a cookbook I already had. Although the recipe I tried i...

(Yesterday morning's sunrise) This time of year, everything is very wet early in the morning.  As I picked green peppers yester...

(this morning's sunrise) We got buckets and buckets of rain yesterday.  Just when a shower would end, another one started.  It was ...

I'm joining Diary of a Stay at Home Mom today.

I did not go looking for this recipe.  I found it in a library book - Pearls of Wisdom, Tops, Shortcuts, and Recipes from a Country Hom...

We have had a few days of stormy, rainy days, so I took the time to slow down.  For some reason, the busy summer days tend to zap my morn...

There were a few requests on how I made these fire starters.  I do write another blog regarding the use of scraps of just about anything...

I have one kiddo who loves frozen yogurt.  However the stuff you buy in the store is processed with unhealthy ingredients (high fructose co...

Sharing another steel cut oat recipe. This smells so good when it's cooking.  Sorry for the bad photo, it was not the best time of da...

Millet cannot be bought in stores here, so I did/do have to order this online.  Funny thing is, is that it arrived timely with Hubby's...

(Corn Pudding, made with healthier ingredients, and with eggs) Let me start off explaining that there are many variations of what crea...

You get two blog posts today.  I bought some of these for the kids to take to their "spring fling" at school today.  They wante...