It is getting close to that time of year that you want to begin thinking about keeping those insects outside of the house. Wouldn’t you rather do it without chemicals?
Natural Insect RepellentSpray
2 cups water
2 cups white vinegar
10 drops peppermint essential oil
10 drops rosemary essential oil
10 drops citronella essential oil
10 drops lemongrass essential oil
10 drops tea tree essential oil
Mix together in a spray bottle and spray around doors, windows and other problem areas. You can even spray outdoors around sitting areas etc.
I like biscuits and English Muffins. I also like making breakfast sandwiches. I seen a pin on Pinterest for cooking eggs in a muffin tin to make them round, I WAS going to try and use a mason jar ring on a skillet to see if I could get a round shape, but trying the muffin tin sounded easier. Here are my eggs in a muffin tin. Some are scrambled and some are not. I only ate the not scrambled ones, they were delish!
Directions:
real difficult… get your pen and paper.. okay, ready?
Break open egg into greased muffin tin (I used coconut oil). Bake at 350 degrees for 10-18 min depending on how done you would like your egg, keep in mind the egg will continue to set/cook after you remove it from the oven. If you want the scrambled ones, scramble the egg up in a bowl first. Shewwwwie that was rough! 😉
We ate these with sausage, and a homemade honey-butter spread on English Muffins, they made for a delicious, quick and easy breakfast.
I found this recipe that called for soaking your grains and adding apple cider vinegar to the recipe and thought…hmmm, well, maybe.. This is now my new favorite biscuit recipe 🙂
Milled Wheat Biscuits-Soaked Grains
2 1/2 cups milled wheat flour (I milled soft white wheat berries)
6 tablespoons high-quality butter
3/4 cup milk
1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 1/2 teaspoons aluminum-free baking powder
3/4 teaspoon sea salt
Put flour in a bowl and cut in the butter until a crumble forms. Add milk and apple cider vinegar. Cover with dampened dish towel or cheese cloth and allow to sit overnight to soak your grains.
After the soaking period, add the baking soda, baking powder and seasalt. Knead these ingredients into the dough, approximately 10-15 kneads. Roll dough out to just under desired thickness of biscuits. Cut into biscuits. You can use a biscuit/cookie cutter for round biscuits, but I just cut mine into squares/rectangles like the girl did from the original recipe and it worked out great.
Bake at 450˚ for 8-10 min or if baking on a stone about 11-13 min. We ate ours with gravy made from bacon grease and milled wheat. Well, I also snuck some in with strawberry preserves for a snack 😉
Brown the beef with the minced onion and garlic, add remaining ingredients and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer on low for 10 min. Serve on Dinner Rolls for awesomeness!
Combine ingredients in order into your bread machine. Choose dough setting. Once timer beeps remove and knead about 5-7 times then pull off balls of dough about the size of 1/2 your fist and shape. Place rolls on cookie sheet and allow to rise for about 30 min then bake at 350 degrees for about 20 min or until golden brown. I used these to serve sloppy joes on 🙂
image depicts 4oz jars with 2oz in it, yours will be full 🙂
I am making and shipping orders of my hydrating salve. This salve is super moisturizing, naturally healing for your skin, and a little goes a VERY, VERY long way. The base is grapeseed oil, beeswax and coconut oil I add vitamin E and customize with essential oils. (i.e. you may want lavender, tea tree and geranium for a mild case of eczema or eucalyptus, peppermint and lavender for osteoarthritis, eucalyptus and lavender to sooth muscles etc) The salve is $18 for a 4 oz jar. I just started offering this in my shop. I hope you enjoy.
In a bowl, whisk together eggs, mayonnaise, lemon juice, water, and minced garlic then sit it aside.
Put your oats in a blender and blend until it is a powder. In another bowl, combine oat powder, both Parmesan cheeses, pepper, salt, Italian seasoning, and garlic powder.
Bang chicken breasts/strips down to about 1/4-1/2 inch thick. Pat dry.
Take each breast/strip and coat both sides in the dry mixture, then dunk in egg mixture, then back into dry mixture on both sides again.
Place onto a thoroughly greased (I used coconut oil for this) cookie sheet or tin pan and bake at 350 degrees for about 40 min or until golden brown and thoroughly cooked through. I like to serve with marinara sauce.
Combine all ingredients in blender and blend until smooth. If you prefer a more frozen type smoothie, you can switch the amounts of frozen versus fresh with your fruits and berries. This smoothie has strawberries for the frozen berries and the fresh fruits are a combo of strawberries, blueberries, pineapple and watermelon.
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