Cooking - Homespun Oasis by Millie Copper

Stretchy Breakfast: Fried Mush – Two Ways

One of my favorite breakfasts growing up was fried mush. My mama always made it out of cornmeal mush. It was a true 'Stretchy' food since day one we...

Foods in Review: Week of January 22

Cooking, Meal Plans

I am happy to report that our bathroom project is just about finished. The room is now fully functional and we are working on the details. One...

Grain-Free Almond Meal Pudding

Cooking, Recipes

One of my real life friends shared a great grain-free breakfast treat. She calls it Almond Flour Pudding. She says she's been making it for some...

Hash: A Great Stretchy Meal

Cooking, Recipes

When I'm looking at little bits of leftover meat and a small selection of vegetables (either raw or previously cooked) Hash immediately comes to...

Foods in Review: Week of 1/15/2012

Meal Plans

This past week was another busy one. We started redoing the girls/guest bathroom a few weekends ago. Sunday and Monday (a holiday) were spent...

Guest Post: Chicken Divan

Cooking, Recipes

I'm excited to have Teryl here today to share a very tasty main dish with you. I 'met' Teryl in the GNOWFGLINS eCourse Forum where she posted the...

“Butter Causes Diabetes”

Nourishing Traditions, Traditional Foods

This morning, my husband Joe, had one of those 'morning shows' on. I wasn't really paying attention to it until one of the 'medical contributors'...

Grain-Free Clafouti

Recipes

Mmmm. Clafouti. Definitely a favorite. I had actually never heard of clafouti until it was featured in the menu mailer from Cooking Traditional...

Foods in Review: Week of 1/8/12

Eating Real Food and Working, Traditional Foods

This past week I didn't spend too terribly much time in the kitchen. With tax stuff to be done, regular bookkeeping, my business getting this new...

Goodbye Microwave, Hello Counter Space!

Feeding Children, food thoughts, kitchen experiments

Over two years ago I put up a post with pictures of my kitchen. In the post I mentioned that we were going to get rid of the microwave but then my...

Foods in Review: Week of 1/1/12

Tuesday Twister

From August of 2009 until February of 2011, Wardeh from GNOWFGLINS hosted a weekly blog carnival known as Tuesday Twister. The purpose of the...

Menu Plan 1/8/2012

Meal Plans, Stretchy Beans

Last week was a very tasty food week. I had to do a little bit of rearranging of things but not too bad. For Friday night's potato bar I had planned...

Juggling and Meals

Eating Real Food and Working, food thoughts

Angela mentioned in a comment on this post that "The trick is figuring out how to do all this without food consuming every waking hour of my life...

Whoo-Hoo! January is National Oatmeal Month

Food Storage, frugal options

Okay, so maybe it is not a big event but I do find it quite fun that someone designated January as National Oatmeal Month. I love oatmeal so in...

Menu Plan 1/1/2012

Meal Plans

A second long weekend in a row and it was great. Except that this was the weekend my oldest (Sierra) moved back to Oregon. We took her to the...

Re-Visiting the Food Budget

Budgeting, Food Storage, Nourishing Traditions

> When I first began this blog, one thing that I did was share our monthly food budget and the results of achieving (or not) that budget. Toward...

Clabber Cheese

Food Preparation

I have very much enjoyed taking the GNOWFGLINS series of eCourses. Each of the four courses (a fifth course starts in January) has been extremely...

Taco Soup

Cooking, Recipes

Taco Soup is a delicious way to finish off a pot of beans. Usually, by the end of my bean pot, there are still some beans in it with quite a bit of...