I love summer. Picking fresh vegetables and cooking straight from the garden. Having informal get togethers with friends in the backyard. Summertime means entertaining and keeping it green outside - and enjoying longer evenings spent outdoors. Here's how we entertain outdoors while keeping our guests happy and go green with waste at a minimum. Use… Continue reading Summer Entertaining Goes Green
How to Freeze Fresh Herbs
While I like fresh herbs to last, in hot weather they can wilt before using them. Store bought frozen or freeze dried herbs are nice but there's all that packaging and expense. Wasting food is a waste of resources. My solution? Food process herbs and freeze them in a glass jar. This couldn't be easier… Continue reading How to Freeze Fresh Herbs
Quickest Ever Cucumber Salad
I like simple salads in the summer, don't you? This is the quickest ever cucumber salad and one of my favorite recipes because the cucumbers, dill, and tomatoes are straight out of my garden. What could be easier than picking, chopping, and tossing? Quickest Ever Cucumber Salad Recipe Type: Main Cuisine: American Author: Sara Tetreault… Continue reading Quickest Ever Cucumber Salad
Real Food Eating While on the Go
Eating real food while on vacation to maintain a healthy lifestyle can be tricky - especially if you're on a road trip. Eating out for every meal can be expensive, too. With a little preparation, eating real food wherever you're traveling can keep health a priority and keep the costs down. Prep these.... core apples… Continue reading Real Food Eating While on the Go
Greek Yogurt Dill Dip
Sometimes I think dips should be eaten with a spoon. Well, healthy dips like this Greek yogurt dill dip should be. It's so easy to make, too. It's light and fresh - but grab a carrot or celery stick to make it look like you're eating the veggies. And not just eating Greek yogurt with… Continue reading Greek Yogurt Dill Dip
Quinoa Salad
While there's always plenty of food to eat in our home, my kids seem to always be asking what's to eat. What they are really asking is, "What can I eat right now because I'm starving and I just walked in the door and I don't want to cook anything." Yes, I can read minds.… Continue reading Quinoa Salad
How to Cook Padron Peppers
If you've never had a padron pepper, give this tasty little, green pepper a try. They're at lots of farmers' markets, pack tasty flavor, and are easy to cook. If you can cook them outside during the summer, even better. No hot kitchen for you! We love them for an appetizer and if you travel… Continue reading How to Cook Padron Peppers
Connect Locally with JustFreshy
When there's a new way to share resources in our community, we embrace it. When we can participate in the "sharing economy" by trading our home or sharing seeds from our garden, we do it. Buying local when possible is another concept we embrace. When I was approached (on Twitter, of all places!) about helping… Continue reading Connect Locally with JustFreshy
Use Fewer Chemicals in the Dishwasher
You know when you open your dishwasher after it's run and it’s all steamy and smells like cleaner? What you smell are very strong chemicals. Sure the dishes are clean, but at what cost to our health? That's what we asked ourselves. The changing of all of our cleaning, laundry, and consumer products has opened… Continue reading Use Fewer Chemicals in the Dishwasher
Home Organization Tips with List of Weekly Projects
Remember how we spent last year organizing our home and sorting through all of our closets and cupboards? We haven't gone back to our old ways but it has been hard passing up free piles of junk on the street corner or estate sale treasurers. The house does have more breathing room and fewer piles… Continue reading Home Organization Tips with List of Weekly Projects
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