Hey! Where's My Feet?

When it's winter time I love love love eating soup, but rarely is it ever from a can - most always made from scratch around here!  Now I've made many a chicken noodle soup in my day but never a creamy version, so here we go... my new favorite soup!! *Please keep in mind that the measurements for these ingredients are only estimates* 2 celery stalks chopped 2 carrots (4 or 5 baby carrots) chopped 1/2 white onion chopped 3 gloves garlic minced Saute` them up until tender... I sauted them in a smidge of bacon grease and butter.  Then add a little flour, I'd say about 1/3 cup and heat until golden forming a roux and one tablespoon of Italian seasoning like this.... Then I gradually added about 20 ounces of unsalted chicken stock , stirring and mixing well.  As it started to simmer I added 2 cooked boneless chicken breasts (rough cut), one can of evaporated milk then about 1 1/4 cup of Ditalini pasta.  Let it simmer until pasta is cooked and voila... creamy chicken

Over the last few years I've gradually been cutting out processed foods and going with more natural eating... not necessarily organic, but natural as in I can pronounce every ingredient and know what they are!  You will find NO boxed foods in my home, such as hamburger helper or au gratin potatoes etc.  Of course there is the occasional box of mac n cheese for the kids, but on any general day You'd be hard pressed to find any thing like that here. One of the things I've been wanting to try is making my own mayonnaise.  Have you ever read the label of a jar of mayo?  Take a look at this "healthy" mayo... they say it's supposed to be healthier but after reading this label, I'm not so sure... Ingredients you can't pronounce, don't know what they are or as it's noted, are "not normally found in mayonnaise"... Seriously?  If it's not "normally" there, then why are you putting it there??  After all this time I've n

I came across this salad "recipe" and had to try it, mainly because of the dressing.  I absolutely love cilantro.  The recipe called for an orange bell pepper but the store I was gathering supplies from didn't have any at the time so I went with red and it all worked just the same. So I cut up a head of romaine lettuce, half a red bell pepper, a half can of drained and rinsed black beans, 5 chopped green onions, maybe a cup or two of thawed frozen corn and a mini pack of cherry tomatoes also chopped.  Put them all in a bowl like this... For the Creamy Cilantro Lime  dressing, I took about a cup of plain Greek yogurt, half a bunch of cilantro without stems, lime juice, garlic, olive oil, cider vinegar, and a pinch of salt and blended it in my wonderful Magic Bullet.   Most recipes I've seen for this calls for white vinegar... I like to live large and used apple cider vinegar instead.  Really I'm just cheap, already had the apple cider and didn't want to

I know right?!  Wine Slushies... who would have thought?  Just the thought of it makes my mind race with endless ideas!   When you get a chance, check out D'Marie - they have some neat gift ideas.  Not necessarily healthy, but neat still the same. Back in Spring of 2012 us girl cousins got together in Birch Run MI for Shipshewana On The Road ... if you've never been I recommend going at least once!  I would like to one day make it to  Shipshewana IN but for now, I'll make due with the traveling one!  While we were shopping and enjoying all the vendors we came across someone serving up wine slushies!  Now I am by no means a wine connoisseur, not even close to being one so for me to try something like this was out of the box... but I did, and I'm glad because turns out it was yummy and I actually bought a box of mix. They told me how to do it, suggested a couple different wines but I was scared... of the unknown.  I bought the mix but knew nothing about wine, and st