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Have you been wondering if you won the little apron this morning? Well, I was surprised at who won it. We had 30 entries, and the only guy who entered was Doug, and he won!! Doug, you will look very cute in the apron ;) Okay, so you didn’t enter for yourself :) Doug and Carol are expecting their first baby in March (who happens to be a little girl), and I am sure that she will look adorable in this little apron. Well, bless you both and thank you to all of you who entered the drawing, that was fun!!

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

So here is a quick little how-to on adding a link to a blog post.

When writing a blog post you figure out what text you want to make a link,

and then highlight it, then push the link button on your editor.

Now it will ask you for the URL, which in this case is http://jenniskitchen.com/2008/01/22/a-recipe-contest-giveaway/

This will make the link. If you were looking at the full html code it would look like this,

Here is a link to Jenni’s <a href=”http://jenniskitchen.com/2008/01/22/a-recipe-contest-giveaway/”>Recipe Contest</a>.

but would show up as

Here is a link to Jenni’s Recipe Contest.

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 if I would mind if he just posted them himself, and I thought it was a brilliant idea! :) So, you can expect to hear from my wonderful husband on some food news related topics, as well as some food/homemaking tips. Maybe I will get him to rate my recipes :) So, he’s posted his first post about eating sustainably on a budget, enjoy! Okay, here is a better picture of him, and I.

This is the before shot. That’s right. Some of you might be thinking, that cupboard doesn’t need to be organized. Well, my friend Ari and I were talking today about organizing, and I got a wild hair…

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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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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 milk
3 lemons, juiced and strained

Directions:

Bring milk to a boil, over medium heat, stirring regularly to prevent sticking.

Remove from heat and add lemon juice, which will cause the curds to separate from the whey.

Pour into cheesecloth lined strainer to separate.

Tie the cheesecloth around a wooden spoon and set across top of a deep bowl or stockpot so that the remaining whey can drip out as the paneer cools-15-30 minutes.

At this point the paneer can be refrigerated and used as a crumbly chese or, pressed into a sliceable cheese by keeping the paneer in the cheesecloth and placing it between two cutting boards. Weight the top cutting board with a water jug or pot filled with water and let rest for 30 to 60 minutes.

Paneer is fresh cheese and is best used within two days. Discard after 4 days (you may want to cut the recipe in half if you don’t think you can use it all in this amount of time.

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 most of our own breads, no white flour or sugar, eating more fruits and veggies every day. So yesterday when I was given some money for my birthday I decided to look at a book store for a book on Detox. I found one that looked good, it’s called “The Raw Food Detox Diet” by Natalia Rose. I’ve started reading it already and am pleased with what I have read so far. It’s easy to understand, not too long, has great simple recipes that will be easy to adapt to our style of living/eating, gives really easy steps for anyone to follow. I’m just really impressed and feel very hopeful. Do we plan to go 100% raw foodists? No, nor do we plan to become vegetarians or vegans. We enjoy all those foods too much to face the thought of never eating cooked food/meat again. We do plan to change a lot about the way we eat, and for the first time I really feel like I have been handed a really simple tool to help us achive those goals. I’m excited about what this means for us as a family. It’s a journey, a lifelong journey I believe, of discovering what it truly means to be a faithful steward of this body, this “temple” the Lord has blessed us with. Should be fun to report the things we learn along the way, the struggles and the victories. Now I’m off to find some needed sleep after a long but fun birthday weekend, my family blessed me with a fun shopping day with my husband yesterday. I was able to purchase a few fun things that I’ve been wanting (including a couple shirts to accommodate our growing baby-he/she has outgrown almost all of my other shirts :). Isn’t it amazing how many wardrobes a woman can go through during her childbearing years?!