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Moneymoneymoooooney (Money!)

My rule of thumbs for anything financial: never spend more than you make. Keep it in the black and not in the red. DO NOT SPEND (unless the shoes are SUPER cute… Or the friends want to eat out… Or someone’s getting married. Or having a baby. Or it’s Christmastime. OR BIRTHDAYS).   That’s the most important thing, riiiiiiiight? Never spend more than you make? I worked a few jobs, went to college, got a career job, opened a Roth IRA and deposited money in it (once). Shunted money into savings. Saw a financial advisor (ONCE). Trolled the internets for forms of passive income, because who KNOWS what the future may hold with accidents, bad health, unexpected disasters, etc.   Then this guy came around and we started talking about this thing called marriage and with marriage comes moving and houses and…. KIDS. And the thought begins: when a two income family becomes a one income family because Mama wants to stay with the kiddos…. And if the previous family didn’t learn how
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Gluten-Free Pancakes.... WITH GHEE

Gluten Free Pancakes with flax    (Adapted from http://www.bobsredmill.com/recipes/how-to-make/gluten-free-flaxseed-pancakes/) Ingredients:          1/2 cup Gluten Free All Purpose Baking Flour     1/2 cup Golden Flaxseed Meal (or take whole flax seeds and grind the suckers up in a blender)     1 Tbsp Maple Syrup (or other sweetener of choice)     1 tsp Baking Powder     1/2 tsp Baking Soda     1/4 tsp Sea Salt     1 Egg     1 T dry chia seeds     1/2 cup Milk Optionals: frozen berries dark chocolate chunks Instructions:     Mix the dry ingredients in a medium bowl.  Add wet ingredients and let rest for 5-10 minutes. Slowly pour batter onto heated skillet coated with generous amount of oil or ghee. Cook on medium low until bubbles begin popping through the top of the batter; keep heat on medium low for 5 more minutes or until firm enough to survive flipping. Flip, allow to cook on the opposite side for 3-5 minutes. Remove from heat and top with ghee/sea salt,
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The Power of Ghee

Ghee has no power whatsoever but man, it tastes so good. (In other news, I have been getting walloped by this season’s totes mcgoats cold viruses. Red, yellow, black, and white, they’ll get Whimsy sick, alright.) Ghee is a type of clarified butter, yeah? It can be made from ordinary (organic/grassfed preferred) stick butter. What differentiates ghee from butter is that the butter is simmered until the milk proteins and stuff separate from the lovely, golden goodness and then the liquid gold is strained to leave a substance pretty darn close to being lactose free. Close. Very close. The foam simmer stage Anyway, I have been reading about this for months and could never find it in a grocery store (I found out two days ago that I was looking in the wrong place. It’s on the cooking aisle next to the coconut oil.) so I finally decided to make my own. Couldn’t be that hard, right?                                                   The straining stage  It totally isn’t!!! May
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Christian Cosmo

When I first began thinking about writing a weekly blog (please ignore the lack of update last Saturday. Dang those resolutions), I surfed across a website called Phylicia Delta. I have NO idea what I was looking for or why but I read the article that I read and went “huh, this girl loves Jesus and theology and is pretty much solid” and subscribed and have been meaning to go back and troll the archives but, well, sickness, time, ADD, squirrel, work, sleeping, you know…. stuff… trounced upon my good intentions and I forgot. So fast forward to like yesterday or Tuesday, or something, and I get an email from Phylicia about Christian Cosmo. Thought #1: Man. Maybe this is a drink recipe that’s different from other Pom Cosmos Thought #2: What makes a Christian Cosmo drink “Christian?” Thought #3: Hahahaha, I’m so funny Thought #4: And mature After gleefully snickering to myself for a goodly amount of time, I proceeded to read the (very obvious, okay, Whimsy) sub-heading: The Se
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The ACV Effect

Ah, Apple Cider Vinegar. Where should I begin? You’re the cure-all (like bone broth).  Perhaps you don’t taste quite as good, but that’s probably ‘cos you're just misunderstood and people don't understand that it takes a refined palate to ingest and enjoy your go-go juice. You’ve been heralded as one who helps prevent diabetes and insulin resistance, promotes weight loss , whisks away acid reflux and heartburn , melts away warts . Among other things. Many, many other things (natural deodorant anyone? Anyone…? Well…). But dang, sister, those are some braggadocios claims, there. You’re brand isn’t pulling any punches either (Bragg. The spelling doesn’t fool anyone). But do you actually do what people claim you do? ~oOo~ I first heard about the wonders of Bragg’s Apple Cider Vinegar (ACV) a year or so ago from my dear Older Sister (https://christinelife.wordpress.com). Warts, unsightly, disgusting, horrible, nasty little body invaders, have been a battle for me sinc
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Bone Appetit: Round Two

Beef Bone Broth. The natural successor to Chicken Bone Broth. For real broth-ers, right? A commentary. Well, basically a play-by-play.   The Stanky Leg 1 whole onion quartered with skins 2 lbs beef bones (roasted)  Skins of 1 red onion  2 carrots, chopped roughly  1 celery stick  Leaves from 1 celery heart  1/2 bunch (washed) parsley  2 chicken feet (I blanched them?)  2 bay leaves  A spattering of peppercorns (probably less than 1 teaspoon)  1 gallon water  There are peeps who are persuaded that too much plant matter can alter the flavor, so there’s that. There are peeps who argue for waiting until the last hour or so to put plant matter in. So, there’s that. But I’m experimenting. So there’s that. The Soak 2 T vinegar  2 lbs beef bones (all bone and marrow, baby)  2 chicken paws   I let the bones and paws soak in a cold vinegar bath for like 30 minutes.    The Blanch Still debatable as to whether its helpful or not. Used water from The Soak
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