Tag: wednesday food post

It went pretty well this week. I didn’t entirely stick to the plan, but it felt much better to have ideas and recommit to this meal planning thing now that we’re a little more settled after baby. Plus, I love thinking about food… imagine that!

Wednesday: Roast chicken and vegetables...

I haven’t been doing as much food stuff as I would have liked this summer, but I’m hardly depressed about it- what with doubling the garden, being very pregnant, and then giving birth and recovering and having a new infant to care for… I’m just going to cut myself...

As he grabbed the fluffy black bird out of its little house, I felt my heart pound a little faster. "I’m going to do this. I’m going to take this life." I thought as we walked it back to the shed.

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I’ve been making our own ice cream for a while now. We have an ice cream maker, and we just suck the cream off of the top of our raw milk and run it through. Recently, though, we tasted someone else’s raw milk ice cream, and it was AMAZING....

There’s this quote from A Language Older Than Words that has stuck with me, and I wanted to share it here.

"Part of our task as members of a community is to feed each other. I thought again of our fundamental inversion of all relatedness, of how we nearly always...

August is here, and things are happening out in the garden. Tomatoes are finally turning red (although the blight seems to be taking some of them already, so we’ll see how much we get out of them). I’m really determined to store everything we can out of this garden-...

In the little packet I received from my midwives it says "We believe that diet is the single most important factor in ensuring health for mother and baby during pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum time." They go on to recommend whole, fresh food, whole grains, dark leafy green vegetables,...

I’m happy to report that my first big canning session is done… and it was accomplished at a mere 2 days postpartum! Crazy, no? I think it’s hilarious. Basically what happened was when my family came to meet little Asa on Saturday they also saw that I had a...

Being well. I’ve been thinking about it lately. Why is it so difficult for us these days? I feel like I so often read about chronic conditions and digestive issues, and yet it’s like our species is far behind in terms of our instincts in these areas. I think,...

I’m happy to get in another Wednesday food post before I have a newborn. If all goes according to plan, I’ll have my hands full the next couple of Wednesdays. I plan to keep up on posting, but I am not going to drive myself nuts trying to do new...