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Archives for January 2014

Month: January 2014

Are Grains Okay When Healing The Gut? | I'm really, really pleased to focus our attention on a question I often get asked -- is it okay to eat grains if I'm trying to heal my gut? I asked nutritional therapist Lydia Shatney, teacher of the online class Heal Your Gut, to step in and help us really understand this issue. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Are Grains Okay When Healing Your Gut?

Cranberry Bread and Cranberry Cookies | I love taking family favorites and making them “new” using “old” methods. During the recent holiday season, my daughter and I decided to do just that with two recipes that we’d read about but never actually tried, both from the "Cranberry" books by Wende and Harry Devlin: Grandmother’s Famous Cranberry Bread and Maggie's Favorite Cranberry Cookies. We're on a roll and just might keep baking our way through the other "Cranberry" books! | GNOWFGLINS.com

A Traditional Twist on a Traditional Tale

How To Make All Natural Mouthwash (3 recipes!) | Recently I learned how to make natural mouthwash myself! It cleans teeth and gums naturally, it's inexpensive, it's made from good and simple ingredients that I recognize (no chemicals or unnatural dyes!), and it gives me peace of mind. Here are three fresh and easy homemade mouthwash recipes. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

How To Make All Natural Mouthwash (3 Recipes!)

Quick and Easy Chicken Noodle Soup and Fluffy Cornbread from The DIY Pantry | Canned and packaged foods tend to be chock-full of preservatives, unhealthy fats, and other additives -- not to mention, they are usually expensive. But oh, the convenience! When my family and I started moving into eating GNOWFGLINS, I missed the ability to grab a packaged mix and pull together a quick meal. Not any more! Today, since it's January and the doldrums of winter have just begun to set in, I thought some nourishing comfort food from my book, The DIY Pantry, might be just the ticket. In our house, this chicken noodle soup and cornbread often grace our lunch table. | GNOWFGLINS.com

Quick and Easy Chicken Noodle Soup and Fluffy Cornbread

KYF #060: On Big Turtle Creek | Prepare to be inspired! Meet Judy Bowman. She and her husband live "on the land, off the grid, and close to the Lord" (her blog's motto). Judy shares many of her traditional adventures at her blog On Big Turtle Creek -- including food preservation, old fashioned skills, treadle sewing, foraging, raising goats and other small livestock, and much more... Plus: the tip of the week -- easily de-crystallize honey! | KnowYourFoodPodcast.com/60

On Big Turtle Creek (KYF060)

Healing Foods (for after the holidays) | Holiday celebrations can be hard on our bodies. Eating foods prepared in other kitchens often means we're consuming ingredients that are not necessarily nourishing. My family chooses to stay flexible during these times, making the best choices we can under the circumstances. But after the holidays, we start craving simple and healing foods. Are you in the same boat? Try my three simple recovery tricks and two favorite back-on-track simple recipes. | GNOWFGLINS.com

Healing Foods (for after the holidays)

Gardening in Small Spaces | I live in suburbia, right smack-dab in the heart of the big city suburbs. I'm a wanna-be homesteader, dreaming and planning to buy a few acres one day soon. Yet, I am gardening in my postage stamp yard, and last year harvested over $500 worth of food from my little garden beds. If you are a wanna-be homesteader, too, now is the time to "dig in" and learn how to garden -- even in small spaces! | GNOWFGLINS.com

Gardening in Small Spaces

Treating High Fevers With Egg Whites | Parents are told to reduce their kids' fevers with aspirin or other medicines. For a mild fever, this can do more harm than good. Here's a natural fever remedy you may not have heard of... egg whites! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Treating High Fevers With Egg Whites

Chocolate Chip Banana Muffins | In the world of muffins, quick breads, pancakes, and waffles, I vary our whole-grain flours and use many that are gluten-free. After quite a bit of reading, finessing, adjusting, and trying, I achieved gluten-free muffin success! My family was excited (and surprised!) when I finally served these chocolate chip banana muffins which didn't crumble all over their plates, taste bitter, or compromise nutrition. | GNOWFGLINS.com

Chocolate Chip Banana Muffins (Gluten-Free)

Common Sense Homesteading | She's the common sense homesteader. Smart, kind, and discerning, Laurie Neverman is the blogger behind Common Sense Homesteading. Her interests lie in homesteading, gardening, energy efficiency, and natural health. Our visit includes a virtual tour of her family's energy star home in Wisconsin, and info about her book, "Common Sense Health". Get to know Laurie through the links and info in this post, and of course through this podcast. Plus... the tip of the week! | KnowYourFoodPodcast.com/59

Common Sense Homesteading with Laurie Neverman (KYF059)

Whipped Body Butter | It's not frosting, but it does look good enough to eat. This whipped homemade body butter is thick and rich. It nourishes the skin with just a few ingredients like shea butter and essential oils. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Way Better Than Lotion: Homemade Whipped Body Butter with Essential Oils

Grow Your Own Transplants | If you're serious about gardening, the growing season never really comes to an end. Something always needs to be done even, in the dead of winter. On our homestead, once the holidays are over, it is time to turn our attention to the upcoming spring planting season, which actually starts several weeks in advance of spring. The first item on my agenda is to start my own transplants. Here are my best tips. | GNOWFGLINS.com

Grow Your Own Transplants

Not-So-Dense (Or Sour) Sourdough Bread | 'Many of my sourdough loaves over the past few years have been dense. Until the day a spark went off in my head: I needed to soak all of my grains the night before, not just the sponge of the bread! A new softer, lighter, less sour, not-so-dense sourdough bread was born!' | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Not-So-Dense (Or Sour) Sourdough Bread

Raising A LGD -- The First Year | January 5th marked one year since Mindy, our Great Pyrenees/Karakachan dog, came to live with us at Hickory Cove Farm. I thought and prayed about getting a livestock guardian dog for quite a while. I thought that I would sit back and observe, read others' tips and stories, ask a few questions, and keep an eye out for an available puppy with the right and location. Then one day, Mindy's picture showed up in the group, and I melted. | GNOWFGLINS.com

Learning Together: My Adventures in Raising a Livestock Guardian Dog

First Aid with The Survival Doctor | In this episode of Know Your Food with Wardee, you'll meet The Survival Doctor, James Hubbard, M.D. As a practicing family doctor for 30 years, he's one of the nation's top survival-medicine experts and the author of a brand new book, The Living Ready Pocket Manual to First Aid. This podcast is a part of his book launch blog tour, and I'm thrilled to be part of it. Plus... the tip of the week! | KnowYourFoodPodcast.com/58

First Aid with The Survival Doctor (KYF058)

Gluten-Free Sausage Mac and Cheese | No surprise, like everyone, we're big fans of macaroni and cheese. I've shared a stovetop real food mac and cheese in the past. This one is gluten-free, too, but it's also baked and has a brown-rice thickened cheese sauce with smoked paprika. It's worth the extra time to make the sauce and bake the dish. It's absolutely scrumptious with the toasty oven-baked cheese. | GNOWFGLINS.com

Gluten-Free Sausage Mac and Cheese

Spotlight on Herbs: Bay Leaf | The humble bay leaf -- cultivated since the beginning of recorded history, used as a symbol of honor in Ancient Greek and Roman culture, and one of the most widely used culinary herbs in both Europe and North America. Living in a cold northern climate where bay laurel trees must be grown indoors, it took me two years to find one to add to my indoor garden, and (thankfully) it was one of the few plants that survived our recent move and continues to thrive with nothing but a sunny window for light! | GNOWFGLINS.com

Spotlight on Herbs: Bay Leaf

Fresh Bread On A Wood Stove | My family and I greatly enjoy our winters in Idaho. We look forward to the snowshoe hikes, the warmth and coziness of the fire, and the benefits of cooking on a wood stove all winter long. I love using my wood stove for our meals, baked goods, and of course, bread! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Fresh Bread On A Wood Stove