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Making Yogurt

Claire — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 08:35:56 +0000

I love to eat yogurt. I like it plain, with just a smidgen of raw honey mixed in. Yum. HOWEVER. I am not a fan of buying individual yogurt cups – wasteful plastic! I solved this problem by making my own yogurt at home. There are plenty of resources available on the interwebs for DIY [...]

Liver Musings

Claire — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 08:01:17 +0000

Did you know liver is the best food for rebuilding from depression? I didn’t know either. But I read the book, and decided that it was worth a try to get more liver in my diet. The book is really good. The author cites her sources and there isn’t anything in there that’s really outlandish [...]

Random Blather About Black Friday

Claire — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 06:01:03 +0000

Apparently it was an okay Black Friday this year – no one died. There were just muggings, and pepper spraying from a crazy bitch who decided to pepper spray her fellow shoppers to get them out of her way. I also read about store security pepper spraying for crowd control, and I think I saw [...]

Shop Handmade

Claire — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 19:32:55 +0000

Usually this time of year I’d start getting twitchy because we would already be playing the holiday music at work and we’d be getting ready for Black Friday. Six years of Holiday At The Mall, and I was basically ready to take hostages. This year will be different, because I’m not working at the mall [...]

Trying To Go Green

Claire — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:16:20 +0000

The trick for me, when trying to figure out how to be more “green” and eco-friendly, is balancing convenience and effectiveness with green-ness. Take dishwasher detergent, for example. I haven’t been a fan of powder dishwasher detergent because it isn’t very effective (at least, it didn’t used to be when I tried it years ago) [...]

A Sticky Situation

Claire — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:53:33 +0000

The other day Jacob posted a link to an interesting article in Food Safety News. Apparently, a lot of the honey sold on store shelves has had all of its pollen filtered out. It is stated by the president of the American Honey Producers Association that the only way to remove all pollen from honey [...]

Santa Paws Drive

Claire — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 04:11:20 +0000

A few years back, in February 2009, to be specific, I was active on Twitter – as my cats. Yup, I’m one of those people. In February, a group of like-minded individuals decided to throw a sort of ad-hoc Twitter party, for charity. And thus, the Pawpawty was born. Pawpawties are cool, and I’m proud [...]

Fun Fall Foods

Claire — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 07:05:31 +0000

One of the fun things I’m doing on my new adventure is to take a look at what comes in my veggie box from Organics To You each week, and either brainstorm our favorite meals or find new recipes to use the veg. I also signed us up for Cozi.com, which looks to be a [...]

What’s For Dinner?

Claire — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:27:04 +0000

We’re playing “How LITTLE can we buy at the store?” this week for food, so tonight’s dinner comes from the freezer and what I have on hand. I’m planning on making these gnocchi, as I have a kabocha squash from my Organic’s To You box. I pulled a beef roast out of the freezer to [...]

Musings Late At Night

Claire — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 09:08:02 +0000

Next week I’m jetting off to New York City for four days of fun and adventure, alone, participating in a conference for beauty bloggers. To say that I’m excited would be an understatement but I’m also feeling a little anxious about it. I do occasionally post photos of myself to my blog and consider it [...]