I am making a black bean soup for dinner tonight. Originally I had planned to make beans like I always do…soak and then toss them in the crockpot with the rest of the ingredients. But then I thought this might be a good opportunity to make my first attempt at sprouting. I found an easy …
Soaked Granola
Last week I made a batch of soaked oats and crispy pecans. Then I used them to make homemade granola. I used my usual granola recipe. But I added coconut oil instead of another kind of fat. Maybe next time I’ll try butter too. This turned out really well. Although I did let it bake …
Soaked Pot Roast
On Monday I made a roast to use up more of our Voogt beef since we’ll be getting a new batch soon. I found a soaking method in Nourishing Traditions to make the meat more tender/easier to digest. So I used that suggestion and then made my roast in the crockpot. I didn’t follow the actual …
Crockpot Hawaiian Chicken
For lunch on Sunday I made crockpot Hawaiian chicken. I’ve made it before, but I guess I haven’t posted it. It’s a super simple recipe from A Year of Slowcooking. I modified it a bit this time to make it a little more like sweet and sour chicken. Either way it’s very good! And so …
Homemade Poptarts
cinnamon brown sugar I recently found a recipe for homemade poptarts (my MOPS group posted a link to the recipe…from Smitten Kitchen). I had to give it a try! So I made them for breakfast today. I made the dough last night and assembled and baked them this morning. In hindsight I think it’d be easier …
Salmon, Pea and Spinach Pasta
Last night for dinner I made a new pasta recipe. I based it on a recipe from the May 2010 issue of Cooking Light – spring linguine with basil. But then modified it (quite a bit) to use what I had on hand/for our tastes. I knew I wanted to make a pasta with salmon and this …
Crispy Pecans (Soaked and Dehydrated)
I soaked and dehydrated some pecans the same time I soaked my oats. It is a similar process except you use salt instead of yogurt. But the soak and dry times were the same. And I had them in the oven together. Very efficient. The soaking and drying process for most nuts and seeds is the …
Soaked and Dehyrdated Oats
As I continue on my healthy eating journey I’m experimenting more and more. This week I tried soaking and dehydrating oats. I’m hopeful this will make them easier for me to to digest. Plus it will break down the phytates and make the nutrients more readily available. It is very simple to do. Hardly any active …
Peanut Butter Frosting
Last weekend I brought cupcakes to my SIL and BIL’s open house. I made 2 kinds – coconut and chocolate peanut butter. I got the recipe for the chocolate peanut butter cupcakes from my Barefoot Contessa cookbook. I decided to just use my regular chocolate cake recipe with her frosting recipe. Super simple and SO …
God Speaks, and I Surrender All…
Well, I’m trying to. Not long ago I wrote a post about being alone. That was how I felt the day after I found out what we had hoped would be baby #2 was not. That was 4 weeks ago. I was at a very low point. But since then God has really been working …