I grew up on my mom’s homemade buttermilk biscuits. It was one of my favorite things growing up! If I close my eyes, I can picture being back in her kitchen and watching her “throw them together” as she’d often say, not even looking at a recipe. They’d taste perfect though. She used a small…
Archives for June 2017
Pain Connects Us
Pain connects us “…and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all of our troubles, so that we may comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.” 2 Corinthians 1:3-4 If you’ve ever felt like you’d rather die than live, you understand pain. If…
Clean alternatives to cereal for breakfast
I live in the real world. I know that no one has extra time in the morning. We are all rushing around getting ourselves ready for work, and many of us are also getting kids ready for school or daycare. We’ve been conditioned to believe that mostly everything on the grocery store shelves is relatively…
Roasted green plantains
Have you ever had green plantains? I was first introduced to plantains after starting the Paleo diet several years ago. Where had these been all of my life???? They are now a staple in our house and a family favorite. My daughter actually giggles when I tell her I’m making plantains. Plantains…
Supplement Spotlight: Vitamin D
So, when is the last time you had your Vitamin D (a.k.a. the sunshine vitamin) levels checked? You go outside, sometimes right? Isn’t that enough? Unfortunately, we simply just run out of time to be outside. All we seem to do is hurry from one thing to the next, but mainly those activities are indoors. We…
