Passions I can't deny
Posted in Recipes, crafts, soap making on Mar 22nd, 2010
This procedure was a little trickier than the others because of the small amount of water and adding the goat milk. There are several different ways to handle milk in soapmaking. After lots of research I decided to try the method that I felt was the easiest.
Please refer to the cold process instructions here. The [...]
On my last post I talked about how blessed we are with blackberries. I will be making that Blackberry Syrup in the next couple of weeks, but just thinking about that made me hungry for Blackberry Cobbler. So I made one yesterday.
The recipe comes from one of my old cookbooks. This cobbler is simple and [...]
Now that the season will soon be upon us I need to move some blackberries out of that prime real estate known as the freezer. Last year I found a way to use up some of those blackberries by making Blackberry Syrup which we enjoyed all summer long. I’m writing about this now since the [...]
Posted in Recipes, crafts, gardening, soap making on Mar 7th, 2010
Below you will find our recipe. I’ve included the percentages so if you want to make a bigger batch, you can enter these numbers into the calculator.
A note with dealing with lye. Caution needs to be taken when using this. We open our kitchen window to give the room ventilation during the soap making, even [...]
The rinse is pretty simple and according to the book it gives any hair type body.
This is a nice rinse, smelled good, and seemed to give my hair a little bit more body. However, having to keep it refrigerated and used up in a week makes it a pretty high maintenance goodie. I’m off to [...]
Posted in Recipes, crafts, soap making on Feb 20th, 2010
Please go HERE for the actual cold process tutorial. I would recommend printing it out so you can work from it as you are making soap. As I’ve mentioned before, there are a lot of great soap-making resources online, but this site is my favorite. Since I changed her basic recipe, I also consulted our [...]
A couple years ago for Christmas I renewed an old interest in making beauty supplies. Several friends received peppermint lip balm, lavender eye pillows, and body cream. I notice just this past couple of weeks that I was running out of my face lotion and remembered the book I had purchased that year – Organic [...]
I still don’t like to clean, but it makes the job much easier. I also found that this is a great cleaner, but it still wouldn’t get the stove burners clean. I’ve tried about everything I could buy to clean that stove and decided I’d just try a paste of baking soda. It did a [...]
Today was my day to make yogurt. Well, really it’s my month. This used to be Dave’s task, but many months ago we decided to take turns on yogurt duty. Today was my day for this first batch this month.
If you’ve never eaten homemade yogurt, you are missing a treat. It’s not sweet (you can [...]
Well, it’s another round of biscotti baking this morning. Today I tried a couple different variations on my original recipe.
In the front is Black and White biscotti. Behind left is Walnut biscotti and on the right is Chocolate Chip. For the Black and White, I divided the dough in half. I formed the one half [...]
