A bumper tomato crop is a huge blessing if you are a canner! It is so rewarding to have a canning cabinet full of summer’s harvest ready to eat this winter. This was the first year that I canned seasoned […]
Seasoned Tomato Sauce Canning Recipe
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Work Week Menu Plan Week of 8/24/15
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On Sunday we were once again blessed with a surplus of garden crops from our neighbor! A bucket of tomatoes, several pounds of potatoes and four huge cucumbers. I ended up making fresh salsa with some of the tomatoes to […]
Nutrients Boost Concentration
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Eating right helps keep our bodies sharp from our heads to our toes. “The right nutrients help you think clearly, so keep these foods in regular rotation says, “Joy Dubost, Ph.D., R.D.” Turmeric. The curcumin in it stops the plaque […]
Health Benefits of Pears
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Pears are usually a fruit that make my (Litsa’s) green juices super sweet! They balance out the greens that I add to my juices. When I add them to my fresh juices, I simply wash the pears and cut them […]
ART, Art, and More ART
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Children of all ages love the ARTS. They enjoy creating self-portraits like these girls above did this past week. Children are natural actors with a voice of their own. They love music. Turn on a radio and you’ll soon hear […]
A Fitness Journal
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Journals have always captured my full attention. I love that they say write. Tell your story. In the midst of working out, finishing the end of school with my kindergartener (Litsa’s), I stumbled upon, a fitness journal: fit happens. It […]
How to Easily Peel Tomatoes
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Processing tomatoes for canning can be a bit of a chore. The tomatoes need to be peeled, cored, cut and possibly seasoned before the canning process. I found that most tomato canning recipes called for either peeling the tomatoes ahead […]
Work Week Menu Plan: Week of August 17th
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It was a peachy weekend at our house! Our local orchard had a bushel of peaches on discount for canning. I took advantage of the opportunity and canned four batches of peach jam, 16 pints of peach slices. I also […]
