I wrote this for The Homeschool Lounge back in September 2009.

Your oats can be stretched further when you decide to bake them instead of making hot cereal. Soaking grains is better for your body and it’s easy enough to prepare that you won’t be wondering what will be for breakfast.

If you consume cereals of any sort (except homemade) even if it is labeled organic, I highly recommend during some research. We stopped eating cereal more than two years ago in our household. It not only saves you a lot of money but also from eventually weakening your and your family’s bodies. One good place to start doing research is by obtaining or borrowing a copy of Sally Fallon’s Nourishing Traditions Cookbook. It has so many references to other studies and books throughout the book and on the sides of the recipes. If you like science I think you’ll be amazed to find out the studies done where cereal and other “foods” were involved. You might see a link with humans. Ever since I was little girl I always enjoyed studying about the how’s and why’s of things and mostly wasn’t satisfied when I was told something was good for me. I wanted to know more of the why behind it. I guess that’s why I was attracted to physics in college. I love seeing the power of God through the things that He has put on this earth for our betterment, from the amazing properties of cotton, bamboo, silver, food — you name it. I get excited learning about it because it shows me His awesome power.

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I wrote this for The Homeschool Lounge back in February 2010.

Why spend over twelve to eighteen dollars paying for a small main entree of salmon when you can spend that money feeding four people close to the same thing?

Resist the urge to eat out and drop by your local fish store instead. Get some good healthy cuts of wild salmon. Take that home to bake that day or the next.

Making this succulent dish is really easy. I’ve learned how to marinate salmon in good olive oils, juices, and spices but this method doesn’t need as much early preparation. In fact, the fish goes straight from the bag to the skillet.

This recipe is inspired by Sally Fallon’s salmon recipes in her cookbook Nourishing Traditions. I’ve changed some things but the general concept is still the same.

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I spotted one of our breakfast or brunch meals from August 2010 that had organic jasmine rice, organic stir fry vegetables, organic scrambled eggs, and organic bacon. If I could do this dish all over again, I would most likely use organic brown rice (basmati preferably) and use a different meat.

Find out more about these organic stir fry vegetables and how they were cooked here.

This is quick and easy vegetable dish to make. I sliced organic red onions, celery, and baby bok choy all about the same width and thickness and sautéing them in a cast iron skillet, using organic extra virgin coconut oil as my cooking fat. Season with good quality sea salt and freshly ground black pepper.

Learn how I used this vegetable side dish with other types of food for our meal by going here.

These nice round loaves of bread were made using organic whole grains that were freshly milled in our home using our Country Living Grain Mill. They were hand mixed, hand formed, and baked in round stoneware from Pampered Chef.

Since spelt is our favorite grain to use in baking and bread-type foods, we most likely used that here.

I remember writing a post about this photo about a few years ago when we used to post our recipes on another website of ours. I am trying to locate it. If it is still available, I look forward to posting what was written about it.

I remember using freshly mashed ripened bananas for this recipe along with fresh strawberries and organic flour that was freshly milled in our grain mill. I am almost positive that I used extra virgin olive oil as my cooking fat and aluminum-free baking powder and grey celtic sea salt.

I can also see the organic millet I added to these muffins. I’m not sure if I added walnuts to the homemade batter but that would give it a nice bite if we wanted something different from just fluffy, moist, and creamy. The sweetener was most likely honey and I used anywhere between one to two eggs in the mix.

It was moist and delicious and I enjoyed taking those photos.

Picture note
I just found the time that I downloaded this food photo and it was around October 2007.May you be inspired to be creative at home!

For God’s glory,

Soft and fluffy bread that uses organic whole grains and is freshly milled. Yummy. Here are some loaves that were bagged up and ready to use.

These miniature sandwich bread loaves were made using stoneware for miniature loaves.

This photograph was taken back in February 2008.

I wrote this back in September 2010 for one of our other websites.

A couple of days ago I looked at one of my daughters and said, “Wouldn’t it be so exciting if you made your own pasta today?” Her eyes grew in amazement and she was so excited she was swinging and tightly hugging one of my pasta books in her arms.

I go through my phases of making certain items. It has been a while since we were in our let’s make homemade pasta phase and so I thought it would be a special treat, especially if the children felt that rewarding experience from beginning to end.

So that’s what we did.

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We enjoy looking at old photos and reliving sweet memories all over again. It touched my heart to remember this lovely morning when we were up early in February 2008 and our girls were helping me in the kitchen. Children love to help in the kitchen and we are so blessed to be able to do that together very often.

Here they are helping me crack and beat our organic eggs and peeling some organic garlic.

I was looking back at some old food photos and the nice plump local blueberries for June caught my attention. These blueberries seem to match the other photos of us getting a precious surprise from our neighbors after they went blueberry picking that morning.

This special treat was very quick and easy to put together. This yummy dish was a simple layering of yogurt (probably goat yogurt or organic cow’s yogurt), blueberries, and sucanat. Add a little vanilla essence if desired.