Month: <span>November 2013</span>

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My 3 Year Home Birth Anniversary…and Lots of Birth Stories and Home Birth Links to Celebrate!

I know we are all celebrating Thanksgiving Eve today, but our house is celebrating my younger daughter’s third birthday, which also happens to be the third anniversary of our home birth! Reclaiming Reproduction, Family and Health from Real Food Family on Vimeo. Since having my little Charlotte at home, I’ve become obsessed with home birth....

Naturally Sparkling Apple Cider…and How To Lacto-Ferment Any Juice

Lacto-fermenting foods and drinks is so easy it’s ridiculous! The process naturally preserves the food or juice, adds millions of enzymes and living probiotics, reduces the sugar (because the sugar feeds the good bacteria), and adds natural “carbonation” (in the case of juice). It’s kind of a NO BRAINER!

Top 20 Holiday Desserts of 2013!

It’s that time of year! Have you collected or pinned enough recipes and ideas to get through it? I love this time of year for many reasons, but especially because I finally get to make many of the delicious recipes I’ve been saving! Here is a list of my favorite dessert recipes for the 2013...

Perfect Pie Crust

Pie crust truly is an art, and considering that pie is extremely important to my family, I’ve spent most of my holidays in the kitchen learning the secrets of my great-grandfather’s perfect crust. I will tell you right now that one of his big secrets was Crisco (aka hydrogenated vegetable oil), which is something that...

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