I just finished up an awesome new book last night. Crazy Sexy Diet: Eat Your Veggies, Ignite Your Spark, and Live Like You Mean It! by Kris Carr. I was looking forward to this book for a long time because Kris Carr and her ideas have a lot of personal significance to me. Kris's first book, Crazy Sexy Cancer, was the first one I read after my cancer diagnosis and it was amazing to read about her journey with cancer just as I was beginning my own. Kris was diagnosed with a rare and deadly cancer … [Read more...]
Archives for February 2011
Countertop Kitchen Compost Collectors
After my post about our Worm Factory I got an email from a reader that asked if we put all our scraps from the table immediately into the worm condo AND if we microwave them first. I guess microwaving kitchen scraps to soften them up is a common practice. The answer to both is no. We collect our kitchen scraps in a smaller compost collector because we don't want to overwhelm our worms and we will very likely be generating more waste than they will be able to handle anyway, at least until we … [Read more...]
GNOMEO & JULIET
Sometimes the perks of being a blogger are pretty darn nice. This past weekend my brood of five all went and saw an advance screening of Gnomeo & Juliet in 3D. Much thanks to The Owens Group for the tickets. Anyway, I don't have to write about it obviously but this particular movie, in addition to being VERY good, was actually very "green" in many ways. That surprised me but I guess it shouldn't have. The main characters are all lawn ornaments... ceramic mushrooms and frogs, pink flamingos, … [Read more...]
Berry Banana Kefir Smoothie
Usually twice a week I forgo the morning green smoothie and drink a Kefir one instead. I am one of those people who will forget to eat breakfast but I have no problem remembering to drink it. My Kefir making process is pretty simple. I ferment dairy for Kefir 1 day a week and keep it in a half gallon Ball jar when done. The rest of the week, the grains rest in the frig. This smoothie is ready in 2 minutes... just 2 cups of homemade Kefir, a cup of frozen fruit, a banana, and for me at least... a … [Read more...]
Worm Factory for Indoor Composting
A couple weeks ago we welcomed some new "pets" into the house... Red Wrigglers (worms). They even have a posh new condo in the kitchen so they are getting royal treatment. They are of course expected to pay their way in the form of wonderfully rich and dark compost for our garden this spring/summer. When we moved into this house it came with no composting area and we had other things on our mind prior to winter so we gave up composting for awhile. But I started to feel guilty about that as I … [Read more...]
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