Elizabeth Yarnell's Blog, page 12

Cooking Glorious One-Pot Meals for One

Reader question: Thank you for this way of cooking!  I cook for one only.  Should I get the LC 1 qt dutch oven and cut your ingredient amounts  in half? Will that work?  No where in book or website, have I seen cooking for one only mentioned.  Is there any drawback if I got the [...]

Chemotherapy Recovery Diet Recommendations

Undergoing chemotherapy treatments to fight cancer may be effective in eradicating the dangerous cells but it can also leave the rest of your body in bad shape. What should you eat or take to recover? By definition, chemotherapy is chemical therapy, or pouring toxic chemicals into your body in the hopes of killing bad cells [...]

Homemade Natural Carpet Shampoo/Cleaner for Carpet Cleaning Machines

We had to clean the carpet in our finished basement this week, but I couldn’t stand the thought of living with all the chemical fumes and residue from commercial carpet cleaning solutions. So I made my own natural carpet cleaning solution and we rented a carpet cleaning machine from the grocery store. It worked beautifully! [...]

I Was Infected with Listeria When I Was Pregnant

About eleven years ago, when I was nine months pregnant with my first child, I accidentally became infected with listeria, a bacteria that spreads through unhygienic food handling practices. Since listeriosis (listeria infection) can cause stillbirth, I was treated with massive doses of i.v. antibiotics over several days. Thankfully, my baby was born alive, but [...]

Chicken Split Pea Soup Recipe

Last week I saw a bin of yellow split peas at the grocery store and thought: I should make a split pea soup! So, when our freezer thawed and I had a bunch of thawed chicken on my hands, that’s exactly what I did. I’m sorry to say that I can’t give you exact measurements [...]

Can You Prepare Glorious One-Pot Meals in a Crock Pot?

Reader question: The one-pot holiday meal sounds great! If you had no oven available and were to make this in a crock pot how long would you cook it on high for? Four hours? Thanks!  ~Katee, Calgary, AB, Canada Hi Kate. I do love the Holiday in One Pot recipe Glorious One-Pot Meal, too! In fact, [...]

Gluten-free Crunchy Coconut Chicken Drumsticks

I wasn’t sure what to do with a bunch of chicken drumsticks that had thawed during our freezer disaster but I knew I wanted to do something gluten-free and out of the ordinary, and these coconut-quinoa encrusted drumsticks fit the bill. I got inspired while searching the internet for chicken leg recipes and came across [...]

Making Meals to Stock Your Freezer

What do you do when you’re faced with hundreds of dollars of thawing meat? I haven’t been posting much this week because on Sunday morning I went to the basement to do laundry and stepped into a puddle of cold water: the freezer door had been left open overnight! !Quel horror! We belong to a [...]

What Causes Headaches? It Could Be A Food Sensitivity.

Last month I noticed that I began to get headaches regularly every afternoon. I didn’t immediately suspect that it was a food sensitivity reaction, but once I realized what was causing it, I was able to make the headaches disappear. I’m not a person prone to headaches and after the third day in a row [...]

A Banner Year for Mushrooms

Some friends of ours are mushroom foragers. Every fall they forage for mushrooms in secret spots in the Rocky Mountains and come home with baskets of beautiful mushrooms. This year Shelly and D have reported a bumper crop of crimini mushrooms as a result of our wetter-than-usual summer weather, and their harvest was truly spectacular. [...]