The search is on! Part 2

I have taken the Nursing Mother's Tea, it worked.  I'm leading up to a weekend that we will be away for three days though and will be leaving the children with my dad.  I am going to leave him with both hemp milk and coconut milk to give baby 4.  She has accepted both, but still prefers mama's milk.  In case you are wondering coconut milk is served to her straight from the carton or can.  And for hemp milk I used hemp seeds that I bought from coolhemp.com.  I use a 3 to 1 ratio water to seeds and soak overnight and then blend in the morning.  From there I strain and put into the baby bottles.  Not all babies like it but my first and last babies have.

Curried Quail Eggs

Curried Quail Eggs

Ingredients:                               

2 (28 oz) cans diced tomatoes

2 (14 oz) cans coconut milk

1/2 tsp each: cumin,fennel seed, anise seed, caraway seed

1/4 tsp each: dried ginger, allspice, nutmeg

2 1/2 tbsp garam masala

1 1/2 tbsp hot curry powder

1 1/2 tsp tumeric

1 cinnamon stick

1/3 cup honey

5 carrots

3 celery stalks

30 quail eggs

Preparation:

Boil quail eggs.  Place in cool water and peel and halve them lengthwise, distracting hungry children as needed. 

Combine spices in mortar and pound until well blended.  Coffee grinders work great for this too.

Preheat pan, add spices with oil of choice.  Heat for 2 or 3 minutes. 

While this is taking place blend tomatoes and coconut milk in food processor or blender until smooth. 

Pour over spices and set to simmer over low heat stirring occasionally.

Slice carrots celery and other veggies of choice and add to the sauce, add honey and quail eggs. 

Cover and simmer for 30 minutes stirring occasionally. 

Voila!

The new year - ponderings

I'm finding the blog a little overwhelming.  I have left things to Anthony to post and he's just as busy, so just as a heads up things are going to be as infrequent as it has been.  I hope to add a few more of my rants to the blog to share what I'm learning.  It's hard to do when we have little ones who want to eat, be clean and be loved.  I want to do all that so I'm attempting to do less.

I have been thinking about dropping some things and adding others for the benefit of the whole home.  I think that I will drop one Bible study (maybe), be less focused on my craft hobbies and drop my Jr. Church Co-ordinator position (already done).  In their places I am planning on running a seminar to teach more about Paleo to friends and members of the Titanium Crossfit gym in Courtenay in order to learn more about it myself.  I am also thinking about selling Watkins for a bit of revenue but mostly for their associate discounts.  I also want to focus more on the pre-school homeschool curriculum I have put on the back burner and focus on choosing curriculum for our oldest for the new school year in the fall. 

I've been craving spending time with God so much more over the past few months.  He is changing the desires of my heart, my oh so stubborn heart.  

In the end what I need to keep reminding myself is........this is why I'm doing it.    -ov

Homemade Pig's Head Porchetta

It isn't finished yet but wanted to let everyone know that we have begone the process and will have a recipe and pictures posted soon. Hope Christmas went well for everyone!!

The search is on! Part 1

I'm worried that I am starting to dry up with baby number 4.  I'm going to be taking nursing mother's tea (or maybe just picking up some fenugreek or blessed thistle and make a tea from it) as soon as I can get out of the house to get it but.... that's easier said than done these days.  I plan on finding a Plan B if all goes wrong, I'm thinking something to do with coconut milk.  I have used hemp milk in the past and that worked with our oldest but number 2 and 3 refused it.  I still have hemp seeds left in the freezer.  If you know of anything about coconut milk formulas please let me know.  -ov

Food Spendin' This Month

Pay day 15 Oct. $100 Withdrawn for local farmer's market $500 set aside for Misc groceries.
From the $100
$20 for 25lbs of beets to store over winter
$26 for 50lbs of carrots to store over winter
$1.30 for lettuce
$4.05 for sweet peppers
$5.50 for 10lbs of onions to store over winter
$15 for a calendar
$20 cheat lunch at Tim Horton's


From the $500
$3.98 Hellmanns light
$3.96 5lbs Mandarin's
$13.95 Tenderloin
$13.50 Whole Fryer Chicken
$13.34 Whole Fryer Chicken
$3.66 Ground Chicken
$3.33 Ground Chicken
$9.89 Side Ribs
$10.35 Side Ribs
$10.06 Ham
$8.66 Basa Fillets
$5.49 x 5 Bacon Schnieder's Natural
$19.99 Tigerprawns
$5.49 x 4 Free Range Eggs
$4.99 5lbs apples
$4.99 2L carton of coconut milk
$7.99 Personal hygiene item
$3.49 Dried pineapple
$4.99 Dried cranberries 400g
$4.00/3 Cans of Pineapple
$6.00/4 Cans of flavored tuna
$1.49 x 2 Cans of sardines in mustard
$2.00 5 kiwis
$4.99 5lbs apples
$3.61 1kg broccoli
$5.30 1.3kg yellow peppers
$1.23 .280kg lemons
$4.99 Apple juice +.35 deposit and environmental fee
$2.33 1.5kg green cabbage
$14.31 0.4kg Pecan halves
$4.00 2.3kg bananas
$2.18 1.3kg bananas
$1.73 0.8kg cauliflower
$4.39 1kg peaches
$2.79 1.3kg cauliflower
$2.10 1kg celery
$2.92 1.3kg red cabbage
$1.50 avocados
$1.54 0.35kg fresh ginger root
$.98 for tax

Total of 258.77 shopping at Quality Foods

We will continue to write a complete list of what we bought and where, at a later date. That's all for now!

Jan-2012... this got complicated and we were unable to finish this post.  We will retry at a later date.

For sale! This one isn't food.....

Name a price and we'll talk about colours and personalizing.  Just so you know, I prefer the rough look and don't have the skills or the desire to make these look store bought.  I can do the tie to look nicer for sure though, this was Micah's helping hand and what he wanted on his.