Real Food Living Blog

Shalom Y’all,
Each year we learn a bit more about how to garden organically and what’s best for our area and family.
This year we have 4 small raised beds (4 x 4) so that I can reach them without too much pain In them we have zucchini, eggplant, broccoli, cabbage, seedless cukes and spinach [...]

Shalom Y’all,
I was blessed to attend the Asheville Artisan Bread Festival 2010. It is a wonderous yearly event highlighting local natural bakeries and farms who bring their best breads, jams, jellies and goat cheeses to sell.
Walking from table to table sampling the aromas and tastes, drinking in the beautifully-shaped loaves and the rustic [...]

Book Review: “In Faithfulness, He Afflicted Me”
A mother finds purpose and victory through heartaches
Author: Lynnette Kraft
www.growingthroughaffliction.com
Paperback, published by Tate Publishing, 2008

“Lynnette is the mother of nine children but has been called to endure the great sorrow of watching three of them die. She has suffered, but she has been victorious through the loving help of [...]

Shalom Y’all,
One thing I want to do more consistently is update my blog with personal entries. A dear friend of mine, Sylvia Britton of the Christian Homekeeper Network sent me this idea today and I love it! That structure helps me from rambling on too much (oh dear, am I already rambling? ), [...]

The Bible
Center column references
Book introductions
Translation and explanatory notes
Concordance
Words of Messiah in red
Full color maps
Black bonded leather
Gilded-edge pages
A $40 value
This is a drawing for Christian Homekeeper members. I love that board and discussion group and have been a participant for many years. Come and check out the articles and discussion and if you sign up [...]

Shalom all you foodies!
Check out this awesome gluten-free cookbook from Elana’s Pantry.      
If you want to win a FREE copy of this book, plus a 5-pound bag of blanched almond flour, enter here at Elana’s Pantry.
If you win this book and almond flour, be sure to come back and tell us what gluten-free goodies you [...]

Updated from our family favorite, Baked Oatmeal comes a wheat-free-dairy-free Oatmeal Blueberry Breakfast Cake.
Wonderful warm for breakfast, room temperature for brunch or a snack, or even topped with ice cream for a simple, delicious dessert.
Oatmeal Blueberry Breakfast Cake
Variation on our family favorite “Baked Oatmeal”
Servings: 15
*Use organic ingredients whenever possible**
5   cups  rolled oats,  or quick oats
2   [...]

Hey, y’all! Check out my new review at the Real Food Living website! Read the Morningware Infrared Halogen Oven review.
My review includes a recipe, too: Vickilynn’s Whole Wheat Yeast English Muffins/Biscuits.

I am so excited to be writing 3-4 times per week for the syndicated outlet Examiner.com!
My new assignment is as the “Housewares Examiner” for the Charlotte area and I will be writing articles on my Product Reviews. My column addresses Tools of the Trade for homemakers worldwide. For example, my first 2 articles are on [...]

Shalom,
As the new book, Naturally Healthy Cuisine: Real Food for Real Families hits the mailboxes and stores, the feedback is coming in to my mailbox and on the RFD email loop. Here are 2 that we received today:
“Hi Everyone,
Woo hoo!! I got my book today and I AM SO EXCITED!! It is so beautiful and [...]