May 06
I received an email from EWG today about their new efforts in the realm of pet health. Their new web site, Pets for the Environment, is a resource for people looking to extend their environmentally-conscious purchases into the realm of supplies for the four-legged members of the family. Along this line, I have recently gone …
May 01
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the choices we make in our day-to-day lives and what is really important. I’ve been drawn to trying to protect the Earth one way or another since I was little. My sister, brother, & myself created “The JA Club” (all of our initials are JA) when I was …
Apr 14
Saturday was our second trip to the Farmer’s Market this season, and although I managed to forget my pencil and paper, I did consider it a research trip for our official foray into the 100 Mile Diet. And boy, was it a learning experience. Let me preface my remarks by saying that, although I lived …
Apr 06
Some people may have mistakenly believed spring arrived here in Boulder county on the 20th of March, but for our family, it returned at 8am Saturday morning with the Boulder Farmer’s Market. For weeks I had been enviously reading blogs from the Bay area talking about the good eats available at their farmer’s markets, so …
Mar 06
From our house-warming party to family dinners, our pizza dough has consistently gotten rave reviews. So I decided it was time to share the recipe for all to enjoy as part of StopTheRide’s Make it from Scratch carnival! You can see the rest of this week’s entries here: http://pjmommy.com/?p=693#comment-25955. Pizza Dough (Recipe courtesy of the …
Feb 03
Some of you may have noticed a cute little piggy in my sidebar this past week in honor of NoMeatPo week, a challenge set up by the League of Maternal Justice, Green Mom Finds, and BlogHersAct Canada to see if families could reduce their overall meat consumption in the month of January and completely avoid …
Oct 07
Yesterday we took the kids over to Platteville to Miller Farm’s annual Farm Festival. This family-owned farm, produce from which we enjoy frequently via the Longmont Farmer’s Market, opens its doors during the season to show people how a farm operates. In the fall, you can actually jump aboard a hay wagon pulled by a …
Jul 10
This weekend at the Farmer’s Market, I bought a kohlrabi for the very first time. I’ll admit that it sent me running for my Joy of Cooking to verify which parts of the strange spaceship-like cabbage cousin were actually edible and what I should do with them. I ended up grating the bulb of the …
May 27
1. Wash and cut a bunch of asparagus and arrange on a cookie sheet while the broiler preheats. 2. Drizzle asparagus with olive oil, season with salt &Â pepper, and place under broiler. 3. Proceed to completely forget about asparagus, either by going to attend to your children or talking to your husband about impending …
May 18
I’ve blogged about the damage caused by US food subsidies before, and have also mentioned my dislike of the prvelance of High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS). Here is the best summary I’ve seen to date on the topic and why HFCS is likely to cause our children’s generation to have a SHORTER life expectancy than …
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