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Q&a: All About Dairy

Sometimes people send me questions, and I'd like to share the answers. I'm going to start posting these Q&A's as blogs, with personal details obscured. If you send me a question and *don't* want me to share it, or want specific things changed, please let me know. Here's the first: I can not link to books on this site. If you want the links with pictures, view the original post.   I wanted to say I liked your posts about the GAPS diet but I know nothing about it. I'm interested in learning
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Nettle-Walnut Pesto

Early spring in Portland, Oregon means fresh basil is still months away - but pesto doesn't have to be! Yesterday we Open Original Shared Link. We dried some for tea, scrambled some up with eggs, and used the rest for this Nettle-Walnut Pesto. The flavor is fresher and milder than basil pesto, and you don't have to worry about Open Original Shared Link. Here's the recipe:   Nettle Walnut Pesto makes 1 1/2 cups   1 clove garlic, roughly chopped 1/3 c crispy walnuts 1/2 c parmigiano reggiano
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Sustainable Lawn Maintenance

Back in "Open Original Shared Link" we discussed the reasons lawn has had such a negative impact on the environment. In "Open Original Shared Link" and "Open Original Shared Link" we decided on a MicroClover blend and installed the lawn. But now it needs taking care of!   Right now the lawn is still coming up. Here are the tricks we'll use to maintain a more sustainable lawn, once it has grown in:     Water deeply, only as needed. Lawns should only be watered until the water stops infiltrat
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Harvesting Stinging Nettles

Yesterday we were pleasantly surprised to find that the property hosting our friend's birthday camp-out was full of nettles! Yes, the stinging kind. The owners were happy to let us collect them to our heart's content, though they were a bit curious about our plans for them. Nettles have a Open Original Shared Link, but we like them best as a delicious treat! Ours are destined for tea and Open Original Shared Link.   If you're going to be spending any time out in the woods, along a stream bank,
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Installing The Lawn

Back in "Open Original Shared Link" and "Open Original Shared Link" we decided to make a lawn in an area that I'd sheet mulched, grown potatoes in, and then let go to weed.   When working on the design for our whole lot, we realized that the arbor next to the carport in this area hadn't been successful because the area was so high traffic, so I took it out and saved the lumber for another project.   Rather than spraying out the weeds, I hand dug them. Since the soil had great tilth, the we
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Choosing Lawn

In "Open Original Shared Link", we decided that we needed a place to share meals, relax, and enjoy the sun, and where it should be. Now we had to decide what to use for a ground cover!   I set out to researching our options for creating an area with the functionality of a lawn. We were especially interested in Open Original Shared Link, and some flowering lawns can be truly beautiful, giving a meadow feel and blooming in a succession of colors. But the thing about flowers is that they attract
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Variety On A Restricted Diet & The Meal Where My Mouth Is Challenge

This post is part of Kelly the Kitchen Kop's Open Original Shared Link!   No matter what your special diet, it's likely you'll get tired of it. When that happens, it's not pretty. Here are some of the keys to living with limited food choices - we'd love to see you share your tips as well!   Learn to Love Leftovers... Later Leftovers are the convenience foods of a special diet. When you have to make everything yourself, in your own safe kitchen, it's a lot of work. It can be tempting to make
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Lawn, Really?

I used to be an anti-lawn crusader. Everywhere I went, the lawn went, too. So when we moved in to our current place, the first thing I did was dig out lawn, sheet mulch large areas, and put in veggies and fruit trees wherever I could. While we didn't end up meeting all our needs with this approach, the soil is much improved and our fruit trees and shrubs are now starting to produce!   There are all sorts of reasons not to have a lawn. If we're talking about a standard suburban lawn maintained
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Off To Camp!

Twice a year I take our Camp Fire club to Open Original Shared Link. Camp Fire Columbia has a Open Original Shared Link! We stay in a cabin for two nights, play games, sing songs, have camp fires... and we eat in the dining hall with all the other clubs.   The kitchen is run by volunteers, the costs are kept low, and the food is aimed at keeping the masses happy. Pretty much everything comes from a can or a box, and every meal is loaded with gluten. This never really worked for our family, but
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Hidden Onion And Turnip Borscht

One of the best things about the GAPS diet is what it has done for our picky kids. We once had one sugar-crazed kid who wouldn't eat meat and one meat-crazed kid who wouldn't eat vegetables. While things are still far from perfect, at least our vegetarian is eating meat and our carnivore is eating more vegetables. They will now eat nearly any vegetable.   Except for turnips and onions. Which I totally understand! Onions are slimy and turnips are squishy. What's the best way to get around these
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Pork & Fennel Sausage Patties, Take 2! (The Liver Edition)

We had an entire pig liver from the last time I bought half a pig. Pig liver isn't known as the choicest of livers, but I'm determined to use it as more than just dog and cat food.   And what have people been using for centuries to hide the stuff they don't want to eat? Sausage! So I took my Open Original Shared Link recipe and added chopped liver. I knew it was there, but the kids didn't. Success!   Pork & Fennel Sausage Patties (with Liver!) serves 6 (4 if two are voracious children)
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Wait, Real Food From Real People Is *less* Expensive?

Most of have an image of the local farmers' market as the place where rich people go to buy their expensive heirloom tomatoes, eggs, and artisan cheeses. Turns out, though, markets are not just a place for rich folks to shop.   In a Open Original Shared Link, researchers found that, with the exception of eggs and potatoes, farmers' market produce was actually cheaper than its grocery store equivalent.   Plus, you don't have to deal with fluorescent lighting, terrible chemical smells, and r
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Pork & Fennel Sausage Patties

This post is part of Kelly the Kitchen Kop's Open Original Shared Link!   I really wanted to make these sausages for breakfast, but it just never worked out. So I made them for dinner!   If you are sensitive to eggs or don't have any, you can leave them out. I just put them in to stretch the pork. I might even add 4 eggs next time. The herbs are also flexible - add more if your family likes a more herby sausage and less if they like plain better.   My pork came from Open Original Shared
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Egyptian Mummy Reveals Awful Truth

How's that for a Weekly World News headline!   The American medical community wants us to believe that heart disease is a modern invention. Our hearts are failing because we're sedentary. We eat too much sugar and meat. We smoke and we're stressed out. To beat heart disease, we need to get more exercise! Quit smoking! Quit stressing! Eat less sugar! Cut out meat!   Let's look at the Egyptians. They got plenty of exercise. Refined sugar hadn't been invented yet. They ate very little meat and,
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Crazy Diet People, Part Three

No matter what your special diet is, it will take some doing to stick to it. I don't even think about our diet much when I'm at home, because we've set ourselves up for success. The whole family is cooperating, the foods we can eat are easy to get to, and the foods we can't eat right now are out of sight and out of mind.   But it gets a lot harder when I go out with friends and everyone is sharing appetizers I can't have, or when we're invited to dinner and know that our friends don't have the
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Oven Fried Chicken

This post is part of Kelly the Kitchen Kop's Open Original Shared Link. Jupiter said, "This tastes like Open Original Shared Link chicken fingers, only better, because it's healthy!"   I have mixed feelings about my kid comparing my lovingly prepared grain and vegetable oil free oven fried chicken to processed crap. But I guess I'll take the compliment as it is intended: highest praise.   Jupiter ate a drumstick, a thigh, and a wing. When he turned his hungry eyeballs toward the last dru
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Sauerkraut, Day 4

I think Day 4 might be even more boring than Open Original Shared Link. Check your kraut. Fix the water level if needed.   I'm going to leave you to your own fermenting devices now. Check your kraut daily. I'll post again when something interesting happens with this batch.   Until then, good fermenting luck!
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Sauerkraut, Day 3

Miss something? Go back to Open Original Shared Link or Open Original Shared Link.   Day 3 is pretty boring. Check your kraut. Make sure the water level is right. If it's too high, pour some water out of the pint mason jar. Too low, either push down on the jar or add a little brine (1 c water to 1 T salt).   Give it a good sniff. Smells like cabbage, huh? Give the friendlies a couple days to really get to work. It will start smelling sour pretty soon and lose that cabbagy aroma. Since I kee
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Sauerkraut, Day 2

Miss something? Go back to Open Original Shared Link!   I got up this morning and was just so excited to check on my kraut! It had been sitting on the counter since yesterday and I had pushed down hard on that mason jar every time I passed it. When I went to bed, the water level was almost to the top of the cabbage. I had high hopes that the cabbage would be well submerged by morning.   Well, my hopes were realized and more! The water had actually overflowed and now there was a lovely puddle
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Roasted Winter Squash

In the fall, when winter squash are in season and CHEAP, we buy lots of them. We roast 'em, bag 'em, and freeze 'em. That way, we have winter squash puree all year. Winter squash is an incredibly versatile ingredient and adds a nice sweetness to soups.   Our favorites include buttercup, ambercup, carnival, delicata, sweet meat, pink banana, and hokkaido. If you do not have a meat cleaver or ax, stick to the smaller squash like delicata and ambercup. Otherwise, go for the big ones! They're more
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Winter Squash Souffle

This post is part of The Healthy Home Economist's Open Original Shared Link!   I have never had any kind of souffle, so I am not sure if these little treats resemble it in any way other than it puffs up and falls. When I hit on this recipe, the kids were immediately in seventh heaven. Souffle is our number one requested food around here.   Winter Squash Souffle Serves 4 1/4 c Open Original Shared Link 1 c Open Original Shared Link, cooked 8 large eggs 4 T ghee [*]Preheat oven to 350 de
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Crazy Diet People, Part Two

In Open Original Shared Link I came to the conclusion that writing myself off as a "Crazy Diet Person" isn't the best choice I can make when describing our diet or turning down an offer of a meal. If we want to succeed at maintaining our family's health through our diet, we need to believe in it, and not discount ourselves out of hand. We need to be clear on the reasons what we are doing actually makes good sense.   But maybe our diet is kind of crazy, just like any diet that bucks the Open Or
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Walnut-Almond Butter

A variation on a theme! Quite rich and so delicious. Open Original Shared Link - it makes them digestible and, in the case of walnuts, makes them less bitter.   Makes approx. 2 cups 1 c crispy almonds 2 c crispy walnuts 1/2 c ghee (room temp) or coconut oil (barely melted) 1 T raw honey 1 t sea salt (finely ground Celtic or Himalayan)   Grind nuts and sea salt in food processor to fine powder (like flour). Add honey and coconut oil or ghee and process until smooth. Store in fridge.
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