Whole Wheat Zucchini Bread

‘Tis the season for making zucchini bread! Our neighbors gave us a nice sized zucchini and we made fried zucchini the other night with some left over batter for our fish. The remainder, I shredded for zucchini bread. I got this recipe from All Recipes and changed a few things. I used only whole wheat […]

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Pregnancy and Food

Yes, for those of you who have begun to wonder. I am still alive. I haven’t forgotten my homemaking blog; abandoned it temporarily, but not forgotten it. But for those of you who have ever been pregnant and experienced the gloriously trying nausea and energy loss, you can understand why I haven’t wanted to write […]

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We have a winner!

Sorry, I will let you know in a minute, Cait is hungry :)

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Introducing…Mr. Burns

Well, Chris and I have been talking tonight about him doing some posts on The Joy of Homemaking. He is always finding great food/homemaking related stories that he wants me to post on this site, and somehow I don’t get around to posting them, even though I would love to! So tonight he asked […]

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Raw Farmer’s Cheese Recipe

I have tasted this cheese, made at a Nourishing Traditions class a few weeks ago and it was very yummy! Additionally to being a very wonderful cheese, the whey is full of live enzymes and is very good for you, you can use the whey in your smoothies or just to drink plain.

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Paneer-Homemade Cooked Cheese

I’ve tried this and it tastes wonderful! I’ve never made it myself but saw it made at a Nourishing Traditions class a few weeks ago, I plan on making it but haven’t gotten to the store in our area that sells raw cows milk! Soon though I will try it and post pictures. 
1 gallon raw […]

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A new adventure…

Our family has been on a journey of learning how to eat more healthy for the past 5 years, ever since we got married Chris and I have been trying to figure out how to eat right. We’ve made some great progress, we feel, in that journey already. We mostly eat whole grain foods, make […]

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Cowboy Caviar

My friend Rana made this for a get together we had a couple of weeks ago and it was refreshing and delicious. It was kind of a hearty salsa like dish that we ate with tortilla chips but I think I would cook up some rice and eat it for dinner it was so delicious! […]

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Nutty Stuffed Mushrooms

I made these last night and they turned out really good. I found the recipe on allrecipes.com, I actually made them as our dinner meal. Got a big tub of mushrooms from Costco and I had the rest of the ingredients although I subbed sharp cheddar for the grated parm cheese. I made smoothies (I […]

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PB & Chocolate chip breakfast muffins

Heidis PB & Chocolate chip breakfast muffins
4 Tbs butter, softened
2 eggs
� cup vanilla yogurt
1/3-cup sugar
� cup peanut butter
� tsp vanilla extract
1 cup all purpose flour
2/3-cup whole-wheat flour
1 Tbs baking powder
Pinch of salt
� cup mini chocolate chips
1. ? ? ? Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Spray or use
liners for 12 muffin cups. Set […]

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