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A friend gave me the idea to plant my tomato seeds in an egg shell. I decided to try it since last year I forgot to put egg shells in with my tomato plants and they got bottom rot. It could have been the weather. Anyway I thought it would be interesting to try. She told me to water just a tablespoon at a time.
Mar 302011
Mar 292011
My son made a sun box for the garden. It will warm up the soil until I am ready to plant and then protect my little seedlings from cold north weather.
We had to replace a window and this is the old one we took out. My son built a frame to the exact size. We put the box in the garden at an angle so it will catch the most sunlight.
For most of my early gardening years I used the Square Foot Gardening method by Mel Bartholomew. After 20 years I finally got my sun box. When Mel came out with his new book, my son took interest. He wanted to help me plan the garden for this year. This was his first frame.
Jan 192011
This beautiful spaghetti squash was a gift from a friends garden. It has been waiting patiently on my shelf all this time. Finally, I cut it open and baked it in the oven for an hour and a 1/2 upside down in a pan with water.
Put it into a pasta bowl.
And covered with chili.
Yum! This was so good! My kids even ate it.
Wait until you see what I do with the leftovers!
For more Real Food recipies check out Real Food Wednesday
Jan 192011
Jan 042011
On New Year’s Day I was driving to a prayer meeting asking God for a sign. Then I stopped myself and thought it was wrong for me to doubt God or to need a sign. I thought I should keep going even without a sign. The prayer meeting was great. On the way home I was rejoicing. At the same place where I had asked for a sign two hours earlier I saw this huge beautiful rainbow in the sky. I laughed out loud. My family at home saw the same rainbow and snapped a picture.
Oct 232010
As a mother I want to keep my eyes toward heaven and eternity remembering that I am accountable to God. My children are fully aware of my shortcomings. I can’t hide from them, they see me at my best and my worst. My kids know me better than I know myself. I might as well ‘get real’ and admit my shortcomings to myself.
On top of my list of goals is for my children to get to heaven. The only thing worse than going to hell would be seeing my children there. This decision can only be made my them. If I was the best parent in the world and my child grew up in a perfect home, my child would still have to decide to follow Christ. If I was the worst parent in the world and our lives were filled with turmoil, it is still each persons choice for eternity.
What now?
Lots of prayer
Ask the Lord to come beside Him in what He is already doing in your childs life.
Heart to heart conversations about truth
Self-Check
Have I explained to them about heaven and hell?
Am I living like I would want my child to live?
Oct 132010
We eat endless eggs around here since we gave up eating breakfast cereal. So we keep looking for ways to keep it interesting. 
I put my homemade cottage cheese on the eggs and it was delicious. The homemade cottage cheese melts slightly, unlike the commercial kind. It is also drier so it comes out 1/2 way to feta. Once I made feta with a few changes to the recipe and it was good too.
In the picture you see my homemade bread. This is my first successful loaf without a bread pan. I like the shape. Next on my list to try is biscotti. At the last Weston Price meeting someone brought Lemon-Ginger Biscotti. I don’t know if she’ll give up the recipe or not.
My homemade cottage cheese recipe got deleted off the internet. Stay tuned and I will get it up again soon.
For other real food recipes and ideas check out Real Food Wednesday at Kelly the Kitchen Kop.
Other Nourishing Real Food Breakfast ideas:
Sep 222010
This year the garden produced beautiful sweet peppers. I don’t know what kind they were because I got the seeds from my sister. And yes, I did save some for next year. The plants grew very tall. The peppers were rather small. 
These pepper look as though they would be hot but they are not. My sister suggested that I fry some up in a pan with onions. Now I am not a pepper lover. I just grow them to put in my homemade salsa and chili. I decided to give it a try. YUM! I ate it everyday for a few days. That’s it, just 1 onion and a few peppers fried in real butter.
Years ago I avoided peppers becasue they did not sit well on my stomach. My dad told me he had that problem with green peppers but not with red or other colors. I started eating red peppers in my chili and it didn’t bother me. Now I can eat any color natural pepper and my stomach is fine. I notice a difference between the ones I grow naturally in my garden and the waxed peppers from the store.
I even tried stuffed peppers.
For interesting recipes and information check out Real Food Wednesday.
Sep 022010
My journey with real food has been a long one. My mother did her best to feed us real food when I was growing up. I am thankful for that. When I had my own family I wanted to feed them well but I got caught up in the modern health foods. I bought packaged organic cookies. I paid extra money to buy organic ultra-pasteurized milk. Imagine my surprise when I found out that I was spending lots of money on inferior products. Foods better for my body were available locally at a reasonable price.
Month after month I attended the local Weston Price meetings finding out what real food is and how to fit it into my life. Turns out that eating real food is simple after all.
It took me years to figure out that my mother had been right all along.
Kelly the Kitchen Kop put together a class online that is packed full of information that took me years to figure out. You can listen to her class and then go back and listen again. Shortcut your learning with a condensed class. Real Food Rookie Class
Aug 252010
The garden has had many butterflies this year.
