Category Archives: Cooking and Food

Brownies and other Ooey-Gooey Delights

Posted on July 19, 2010 by Mary

Hard to be overly health conscious when these treats are in the house! My oldest first baked these brownies on May 17, 2009, to assuage the trauma caused me by the “vicious possum attack of ’09″…remember my sad tale,“Hard Life … Continue reading →

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Orange Smoothies

Posted on July 3, 2010 by Mary

Have to share this cold, frothy recipe here…it is delicious, especially on a hot summer afternoon. And we’ve had a lot of those lately. In the past week we’ve picked buckets and buckets of blackberries and apricots, wheelbarrows of onions … Continue reading →

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Yummy Superfoods: Spotlight on Cacao Nibs!

Posted on June 13, 2010 by Mary

If you haven’t discovered the Live Superfoods website yet, today is *your* day! What is a “Superfood”? It’s a nutrient-dense food that ramps up your health at the cell level like you can’t believe. Superfoods range from powders to actual … Continue reading →

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Please Pass the Organic Chicken Meat!

Posted on March 25, 2010 by Mary

This news in! Organically fed chickens develop different and superior genes than conventionally fed chickens. Why is this exciting to me? Well, our spring broilers arrived last Wednesday which means my freezer will be 25 chickens richer in about 7 … Continue reading →

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Toxic Peanut Butter

Posted on March 9, 2010 by Mary

Cancer causing toxins in peanut butter…what next? They are more correctly called: aflatoxins. Peanuts, and certain other crops such as corn contain the highest risks of aflatoxin contamination, because they attract the molds Aspergillus flavus and A. parasiticus. Aflatoxins are … Continue reading →

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Barley Biscuits

Posted on March 2, 2010 by Mary

Manna from Heaven would be so lovely, in my opinion. We’ve had such a snow-laden winter, that the poor chickens haven’t wanted to free range much. Why bother when the ground is covered with cold, white stuff, right? Sometimes I … Continue reading →

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Between Christmas and New Year’s…

Posted on December 26, 2009 by Mary

I love year’s end! Right now we’ve got snow drifted everywhere…enough that it completely blizzarded us in on Christmas day. Since Christmas dinner for the family was to be at “our place” we’ve got a lot of leftovers to enjoy! … Continue reading →

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Let’s talk organic!

Posted on December 1, 2009 by Mary

Okay, the bottom line is age related problems and diseases are widely thought to be caused by two things: consuming insufficient nutrients and adding on top of that, a lifetime truckload of toxic chemicals. This alone is a huge argument for … Continue reading →

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Chili Rellenos, Green Chili Stew & Green Chili Chicken Enchiladas!

Posted on October 10, 2009 by Mary

Mama Squirrel here! Yeah, that’d be me, Mary, feeling good and stocked up after toting over 130 home-canned jars of garden produce down to the basement for winter. I started out with it all in two really large kitchen cupboards … Continue reading →

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Spiced Oven-Dried Apple Slices

Posted on October 5, 2009 by Mary

Fall is definitely in the air! And so perfect for having Cream of Asparagus Soup for lunch, baking bread ALL day, and boy do I have a recipe for you! It’s called smelling-the-house-up-like-the-holidays-oh-my…if you have an Apple-Peeler-Corer-Slicer, this is a … Continue reading →

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