Pumpkin pie is by far, my favorite dessert ever made. As soon as fall rolls around I start coming up with ideas to utilize all of the cans of pumpkin my mom has managed to pawn off on me during the year. This morning, I was in the mood for a good pumpkin pie breakfast [...]
Archive for September, 2012
Vegetables & Dumplings Hippy Homemaker Style


If there is one thing I just LOVED to eat, that my mother would make when I was a kid, it was Chicken n’ Dumplings. There are two ways that your dumplings can turn out; light and fluffy, or dense and doughy. My dad was a big proponent of the “light and fluffy” dumpling, so [...]
Thieves Oil - The Secret To Staying Alive During The Bubonic Plague


The season of germs, runny noses, congestion, and coughing is nearly knocking on our door. Since I JUST got over being sick, it occurred to me that all of those cold and flu medicines on that were in my medicine cabinet could be replaced with more natural alternatives that wouldn’t be near as destructive on [...]
Make Your Own Non-Toxic Baby Wipes


I have been using the yellow microfiber cloths to wipe Syfy’s bum, but I hadn’t yet made a baby wipe solution. I had only just been wetting the cloth with water and that was it. Finally I decided I could do more with my baby wipe situation. I remembered that I had an old Pampers [...]
Asian Inspired Ginger Sesame Coleslaw


I was really craving a good cold Asian salad with cabbage. I ended up deciding that I was going to make a coleslaw but dress it up with a Ginger Sesame dressing that would be to die for in this slaw! It really was delicious! I wasn’t sure at first if I was just loving [...]
A Little Further Down The Rabbit Hole: Part 8


This part of the story has been a long time coming. What I have been trying to give you guys is a good background on why I needed to make the life changes that I made. I want you to see how bad it got for me and how ultimately my diet and ridding my [...]
Make Your Own All Natural Dish Soap


After our dishwasher broke, we waited for a month for the maintenance crew to actually fix it. Long story short, it’s been 2 months and no one has come to fix our broken dishwasher. That’s ok! The hippy husband suggested that we wash our dishes by hand for a few months and see the difference [...]