Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Natural Living”
In previous posts, we’ve explored making all kinds of stocks: chicken, beef, vegetable and even from your garden herbs. But, if you are looking for something that is more nutritious and perfect to sip on its own – you’re going to adore this bone broth recipe! Even more exciting is that a) this is a video recipe to make it super easy to follow …
Making your own chicken stock or broth is the epitome of thriftiness, but have you ever used frozen chicken carcasses to make it? Brewing up a big pot of stock is one of my favourite weekend activities and I’ve made it every old which way – vegetable or herb stock, beef or chicken bones. Lately I’ve been taking advantage of the …
What’s better than getting Amazon vouchers for your birthday? Finding out lots of books you’ve had your eyes on are on super sale! This is a spontaneous list of Kindle books I’ve just found on Amazon – including books for food culturing, gut health, clean eating and home herbal medicine. Some I already own, but most I’ve been lusting after …
Get ready to make this homemade restless leg spray – AKA liquid gold for anyone plagued by this painful, uncomfortable and exhausting condition! I experience the frustrating sensations, lack of sleep and obsessive leg fidgeting of restless leg syndrome from time-to-time (as a concomitant symptom to my autoimmune condition) and this spray has become a ‘must-have’ in my medicine cabinet. I’ve been talking about it at work …
Making flavouring extracts is supposed to be insanely easy, yet I’ve just wasted experimented with 2 bottles of vodka making mint extract recently. It all started out well enough – I read a few blogs, gathered my ingredients and got about infusing my vodka. It’s easy stuff in theory, bruise a whole lot of fresh mint leaves to release those delightful oils, pack into …
So, you want to start dehydrating your own food. (Of course you do, you’re awesome!) Making your own dried fruit and raw foods is a delicious and cost-effective way of preserving your own grub – that’s why I’ve fallen in love with my Optimum P200 dehydrator (and thus, fallen in love with dehydrating all over again). A house full of dried nibblies is …
