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 Ornament Hand Made by Jon Thank you so much for listening to our Podcasts and reading our blogs in 2009. It has been an awesome year! Your kind words, suggestions, and support mean so much to both of us and we are truly grateful. We have plans for an even more exciting year in 2010. We’ve been very busy during our fall hiatus but hope to touch base with you all soon to let you know what we’ve been up to. Remember to subscribe to both the blogs and Podcasts if you want to keep up with us best.
Continue reading Merry Christmas from Our Natural Life
 Karen K. Brees , Ph. D., author of The Complete Idiot’s Gude to Preserving Food is the subject of Cathy’s interview today. Her book is a great beginner’s reference on canning, freezing, pickling, and more. The Podcast interview can be played on the device below or downloaded from iTunes, Zune, or Stitcher.
Karen, a master food preserver, lives on a ranch in Idaho where she raises South African Boer goats (for meat) and vegetables. In spite of a small growing season, she manages to produce a large bounty of produce for her family. By preserving her harvest, she and her husband enjoy local, sustainable food year round. Food preservation techniques used to be handed down from mother to daughter, but many of these traditions have been lost over the last 40 years as modern, processed, convenient foods filled the supermarket shelves.
Continue reading ONL052 Preserving the Harvest Tips from Karen K. Brees
Kitchen Adventures with Clafouti
This post is part of Fight Back Fridays. Sometimes eating seasonally and preparing your own food can be dangerous.
It all started innocently enough. Sweet cherries are in season, and I found Julia Child’s recipe for clafouti, or cherry flan. It happened to call for an abundant quantity of seasonal cherries, and Julia deemed it “as simple a dessert to make as you can imagine.” It seemed like a perfect opportunity to challenge my culinary skills and take advantage of the Nature’s Harmony pastured eggs, palm sugar, and raw goat’s milk we had on hand, along with said cherries. Little did I know the danger lurking in my kitchen.
Continue reading Disaster and Triumph with Julia Child
I finished the school year May 26 and attended my son’s wedding rehearsal dinner May 29 (see below) and his mountain wedding on the 30th. The following week I had some major surgery. To prepare my body for quick healing, I wanted to make sure I ate a particularly nutrient dense diet.
Continue reading Nutrient Dense Foods for Healing
 “Good broth will resurrect the dead”, or so says a South American Proverb. In this episode we discuss how to make bone broth, the health benefits of bone broths, how they are used by other cultures for the medicinal value, and we conclude with some recipe ideas.
We discussed the following links in this weeks show;
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Jon’s sister Hilary, living in Germany, is an avid gardener and ONL subscriber. Here is an update from a recent e-mail. She hasn’t had the challenges with rabbits that we have. The comment to Jon is due to his childhood aversion to carrots.  We love to hear from our listeners. Feel free to tell us how you are doing with your gardens, share recipes using fresh produce, etc. We would substitute raw whole milk or cream (goat or cow) for the lowfat. You could use arrowroot powder instead of cornstarch if you’re avoiding corn products like we are right now.
Cathy (click the link to read more)
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Packing a Healthy Lunch
Processed foods are full of hidden MSG, unlabeled GE foods, and unhealthy transfats. How can you pack a healthy lunch that avoids these dangers? This program explores processed foods commonly used in childrens lunches and advises healthy alternatives.
Mercola.com: What’s in That? How Food Affects Your Behavior
We looked at this Mercola article on how food affects behavior and determined that glutamates such as MSG will negatively impact school performance. A high carbohydrate meal will produce glutamates in the brain.
Continue reading ONL005 – Packing a Healthy Lunch
Putting up the Harvest – Whether you are growing more food at home than you can eat, bringing it home from your CSA, or purchasing in bulk from your local farmer’s market, you’ll need to preserve it if you want to enjoy during the fall and winter months. Today we’re discussing four methods of food preservation: freezing, canning, dehydrating, and fermenting.
Freezing is a quick and simple method appropriate for fruit, vegetables, meat, poultry, cheeses, breads, and prepared food. There are several articles on freezing methods at the University of Georgia Extension Service website. We enjoy using a nifty kitchen appliance called Foodsaver. You can find it and other food preservation supplies at our Amazon e-store. Please check these out and consider shopping here for your food preservation needs. The Foodsaver is a vacuum-packaging system that saves time, preserves food quality, and makes putting up your food very easy. We keep ours out on the kitchen counter for frequent use.
Continue reading ONL004 – Putting up the Harvest
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