Diet Heart Healthy
Did you know that cardiovascular disease (heart disease) claims more women’s lives each year than the next FIVE leading causes of death among women? We’re talking half a million women a year die of heart disease! Breast cancer, after lung cancer is third, believe it or not. While these statistics may sound scary, there is […]
Seasoned With Salt
You will notice in a lot of my recipes, I say “salt and pepper totaste” There is a reason for this—not because I’m trying to frustrate you! Salt should be added slowly and, depending on the recipes, in steps. That’s how the pros do it and it makes sense—this is how to get the best […]
Frugality Means a Plan
Image by paige_eliz via Flickr Frugal is as frugal does— At least, that’s what my Mama used to say. Actually, I think that was stupid, not frugal and I think that was Forrest Gump’s mama, not mine. But I digress…we’re talking about frugality here, not stupidity. Although a case for stupidity could be made for […]
Breakfast for Dinner
My passion in life is that everyone would understand just how important the family dinner table is. That simple piece of furniture represents an intimate ministry in the home that will leave a legacy. To lose this focus and become driven by all kinds of extra curricular activities (both for the kids and the parents) […]
Cayenne Pepper – Natural Pain Reliever
I was watching television Saturday night, as I was getting ready for bed. On the news, was a story about an older man who had excruciating knee pain that was being helped via injections of some kind of pharmaceutical grade capsicum. Or in layman’s terms, make that red pepper. That’s right, hot chili pepper and […]
Eat Clean
Now more than ever, nutritional nightmares abound on grocery store shelves. Products that are manipulated to hook us into food addictions take us hostage daily. You cannot be passive when it comes to buying your food and throw just any old thing in your cart. If you implement a few simple rules, you will no […]
Unraveling the Mystery of Melons
There are two kinds of people in life: those who pick good melons and those who do not. We’ve all seen the good melon pickers at the market or produce stand, circling the melons like an exotic bird beginning an elaborate mating dance. Then, when the moment is ripe (pardon the obvious pun), the melon […]
The Power of the Family Dinner Table
Setting and keeping goals is what baby steps are all about. Just one baby step helps make a routine. And when you string those baby steps altogether into one beautiful necklace and tie up the end, you have a circle. This is the cool part—the circle doesn’t end but keeps going. It shows a perpetuation […]
Setting Up Your Kitchen
Getting the basics for your first kitchen or paring down your kitchen to only have tools you need requires a good list of great, can’t live without appliances. These apparatus (apparati?) are here because they either do one job well and better than anything else or they are efficient multi-taskers. Here then, The List and […]