Local cornmeal. Local flour. What should be local buttermilk (but instead is an attempt to use up a gifted half-bottle). What do you get?
Buttermilk corn muffins! Continue reading
Buttermilk Corn Muffins
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Be Well Tea for Cold & Flu
It seems that colds and flu are really starting to affect people this winter. I’m hearing stories left and right about people who are ill.
The first step to prevent illness is always to eat a balanced diet, get enough sleep, and to avoid unnecessary stress. And even if you are exposed to germs or are living the busy go-go-go life, you can often still prevent illness by enhancing your white blood cell count with echinacea, or by using the healing and preventative power of honey and onions.
Unfortunately, there is still a risk that we or our loved ones will come down with a full-fledged illness.
On the bright side, there are many herbal remedies that have been passed down for centuries to help us get better more quickly.
One is this “Be Well” tea that helps to aid in relaxation, hydration, and in producing a mild perspiration that can assist in reducing a fever. Continue reading
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Sunday Bakeday (Including a Great Granola Bar Recipe)
After turning on the oven, it’s always nice to use it for several things. And so that’s just what I did today, for most of the day, actually. What a glorious week it will be with fresh loaves of bread, Parmesan cheese crackers, and the best granola bars I’ve ever made!
(I also made a vegetable dish in the oven, but that recipe will soon be disclosed in an upcoming e-book that I’m helping to write!) Continue reading
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Local Foods in December? Yes! Plus: A Sweet Potato Bake
It seems like it has been awhile since I posted about my passion for eating local foods. Perhaps you were thinking it’s because it’s December?
Nope! Continue reading
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Honey-Onion Syrup for Colds, Coughs and More
Recently, I’ve found myself in the midst of a situation that makes me feel a little uncomfortable — the dreaded “cough zone”.
Do you know what I’m talking about?
It’s the time when you’re peacefully going about your business and then you hear: “COUGH, COUGH, COUGH”, and upon further investigation you realize that all the people around you are clutching boxes of Kleenex as though they’re best friends. Continue reading
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“After Dinner Ahh” Tea Blend
I had such a peaceful time on the coast last week. However, peace isn’t something that should just be felt while on vacation – we need moments to take a break and experience serenity in our everyday lives.
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Homemade Wheat Thins + Palm Oil PSA
Although I’m a few days late with this, I’d still like to share with you that last week was Orangutan Caring Week.
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A Night in the Dark & Echinacea Tincture
Hello Light Footsteppers!
I think today is another hodgepodge of a post for me. It seems that I have been busy, busy lately. All good things — friends visiting the states from South America, a conference, event planning, trying to continue a regular habit of eating well and taking walks in nature. It’s all left me with a lot of ideas for what I imagine to be profound posts, but time slips away quickly and then I wonder if it’s all still relevant. Continue reading
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Simply Homemade: Broth Powder and Face Wash
Last weekend, I was at the Chicago Bioneers conference. It was extremely empowering to be in the presence of so many inspirational figures who are leading the way toward a new future — one that is less dependent on oil, better at following the patterns found in nature, and is resilient to the inevitable fluctuations that happen in life. (My favorite presenters included Vandana Shiva, Richard Heinberg, and Starhawk.)
One of the themes that continually appeared was the need to focus on creating community and living simpler, more regionally-based lives. However, people often asked, “How? What can I do to help us transition?”
I believe one of the primary answers is, in fact, embarrassingly simple: we need to consume less and produce more. This cuts our carbon footprint, decreases our exposure to toxic chemicals, reduces the need to extract far away resources, supports local (and often home-based) economies, gives us meaning and purpose, reduces costs, produces less pollution, and on and on….
And so in case you haven’t noticed, that is one of the main things that I am attempting to do with this blog — get you excited about these simple-living changes! It’s one of the easiest ways to walk the talk of being environmentally friendly, socially just, and a participant in a new Earth-centered way of life.
Today, I’m sharing two new homemade products that I’ve been meaning to write about (although on different ends of the homemade spectrum) — broth powder and face wash. I know…totally unrelated to one another, but they are both about producing more ourselves and consuming less! Continue reading
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Slippery Elm Balls for Digestive Distress
Medicine doesn’t have to taste gross or be filled with ingredients that a normal human cannot pronounce (let alone comprehend where they came from!). In fact, one of our first lines of medical help can be in the form of healing, all-natural products from plants we can identify outdoors that are made in our own kitchens with ingredients we trust. This is herbal medicine. It is people’s medicine.
The following recipe is for a fun, easy to make, and even easier to eat herbal ball that helps to calm digestive issues. Eat too much? Have heartburn? Feeling a general sense of malaise in your digestive region? Give a slippery elm ball a try! Continue reading
These Light Footsteps 