This morning was a typical morning for breakfast. Oatmeal. I don’t know why I have become cold cereal averse in my old age. I just don’t find it filling enough. On industrious days I will make pancakes, eggs or muffins but most mornings are just oatmeal. It is tasty though and I have come up with lots of concoctions to keep it interesting. Here is my basic recipe with a few adaptions listed below. Quick Microwave Oatmeal 1/2 c. quick
It’s Easter season and eggs are everywhere but are all eggs created equal? You know the answer to this or I wouldn’t be asking the question. No, they are not. Try this little experiment. Buy three dozen eggs: 1 doz regular, grocery store eggs; 1 doz eggs marked free range; 1 doz local, farm fresh eggs. Crack one of each egg in a bowl and notice the differences. I am no egg expert but in the last year I have
I had the experience last week of eating out a lot more than I have in the recent past. It was fun, as it usually is, to go out (especially to have someone else cook AND clean up!) But, I found myself scouring the menu for the right thing to eat. We lucked out with the one Italian restaurant that I posted a few days back in that it served local and free range foods. However, that is not the
Everyone is talking about it… How Cows (Grass-Fed Only) Could Save the Planet
When my little J was just starting to eat solid foods I felt like I didn’t have the time or energy to make my own baby food. I bought Beech Nut Pureed Veggies (Gerber had too many additives) and rice cereal and we mashed bananas. Then M arrived and I had learned to puree veggies and it was so much simpler than I expected. Now, E is here and in spite of the fact that there are two others to
Need a great place to stop for ice cream, play and hang out with animals: Kilby Creamery. One of two places in Maryland that starts and completes the entire ice cream making process on site. They have a nice play set for the kids and animals for petting. Today, was a glorious day to be outside and just enjoy all that spring is trying to bring us! Menu for local dinner: This afternoon’s meal was local sage pork sausage from
We hit the Inner Harbor tonight for dinner with the kids and parents. It was late and we wondered into Pizzazz Tuscan Grille. By a stroke of luck we found that they support local, free range and other sustainable cooking practices. Wahoo! The food was yummy and the staff was attentive especially to our three-ring circus of screaming kiddos.
Reduce, reuse and recycle. For a long time I was only focusing on the ‘recycle’ part but this earth love triangle doesn’t work without the first two. It isn’t enough to just recycle if you are not purchasing recycled products, first reducing your trash output and then reusing as much as possible before sending your trash to finally be put back into the system by recycling. My family has been able to reduce our waste to about 1 white trash
Barbara Kingsolver in her book, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.), mentions that March is the hungry month. I had never thought that much about food before. It is really a recent thing that we don’t worry about having enough of a harvest to last through the winter. Goodness, many people these days hardly know that food comes from the earth. It isn’t their fault, it is hard to imagine a tasty snack cake was ever anything
