The Whole 30 Update

The hardest part of the Whole 30 is breakfast. Now that I have added another 30 days without eggs, harder than ever. The first thing I do is think of all the folks who didn’t get breakfast this morning. OK, this is not hard. Then, I think of what I might order for breakfast when I go out. Air. Then,...

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Veggie Stock

Clear Vegetable Stock Makes 4 quarts 2 carrots, cut in large chunks 3 celery stalks, cut in large chunks 2 large white onions, quartered, skins on 1 head of garlic, halved 1 each rutabaga, parsnip, turnip, halved 2 bay leaves 1 teaspoon salt 4 quarts water Brush and clean the vegetables and place...

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DIY - Almond Milk and more

Roasted Chicken Chicken Stock Aioli Almond milk Ketchup with no sugar What do these items have in common? I make them. Especially now, during the Whole 30. Day 22. According to The Whole 30 habit research, after 66 days this will become a habit. 66 days. I am committed to the Whole 30 as an elimination...

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A Lampshade

In the back of a studio closet lives a large, trendy shopping bag of elegant, mostly never-worn clothes, passed on to me by a friend for quilting. The bag pulses with treasures: embroidered silks and shimmery jackets, voluminous wrap around silk pants that unfold to four yards of fluttering fabric....

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Valentine Greetings

Little is known of the early Saints Valentine (I hear there were at least eleven), but some 18th century historians believed Valentines Day was invented by the holy Christian fathers to supersede yet another pagan holiday, Lupercalia, which, on the Ides of February, purified the city and its people...

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Chicken Stock

Good Soup begins with the stock, which really begins when you cook the chicken, and of course, it all begins before that on how the chicken was raised. So, good chicken stock begins with the chicken. Find a good one. Organic. Raised on a happy farm. Perhaps the farmer sang it a lullaby before sending...

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