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Free Ecookbook: Fresh And Easy Summer Recipes

Want some fresh and healthy summer recipes that are easy-to-fix? Check out this free ebook from Econobusters:

Molly Green Fresh – Discover simple, pleasing, healthy, and fresh seasonal delights and invigorate your summertime menus with Molly’s latest ingenious recipe collection . . .22 pages of fresh and easy recipes, fabulous tips, and more!

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Blessings and happy cooking,

Denese


11 Free eCookbooks: Fresh And Simple Foods, Famous Chef Recipes, Summer Grilling And More

Here are 11 free ecookbooks full of fresh and simple recipes, famous chef recipes, summer grilling recipes and many more:

Favorite Food at Home -20 delicious recipes from Rachel Allen, the “Irish Cooking Queen”. Only 10,000 ebooks available, must register for a free account with Harper Collins Publishers.

Stonesoup Minimalist Home Cooking -97 page cookbook filled with 65 simple recipes that use 5 ingredients or less. All recipes take 10 minutes or less to prepare and include everything from snacks to desserts, plus information on stocking a minimalist kitchen and pantry.

Tasty Fat Loss and Muscle Building Recipes -A collection of 25 healthy, low-fat/high-protein recipes for breakfast, lunch, supper and everything in between -even homemade protein bars. All recipes include nutrition information for calories, carbohydrates, protein and fat.

Cold Brewed Coffee and Tea -Over 100 recipes for beverages, desserts, breads, main dishes and more -all using cold-brewed coffee and tea concentrate.

How to make your own cold-brewed coffee and tea concentrates:

Emerils Celebrates 20 Years -11 of Emeril Lagasse’s favorite recipes from his New Orleans restaurants. (scroll down to “20th Anniversary Cookbook” in center column)

Mountain Bread Cookbook -Over 50 recipes using “Mountain Bread” -a thin, soft-textured, Lebanese flatbread; traditionally used in wraps and as a bread substitute.

Recipe for homemade “Mountain Bread”:

Martha Stewart Summer Grilling Cookbook -51 pages of 32 delicious summer recipes for drinks to desserts -from acclaimed chefs Martha Stewart, Emeril Lagasse, Tim Love, Elizabeth Karmel and many others.

BBQ Favorites 2010 -24 delicious recipes for outdoor grilling and dining are featured in this 42 page ecookbook from ATCO Blue Flame Kitchen. Be sure and check out What’s Hot for more great summertime recipes.

Texas Pepper Jelly Free eCookbooks -Sign up for Texas Pepper Jelly’s free monthly newsletter and get 3 free ecookbooks: Country Sweet Texas Heat, 101 Recipes in a Flash, and South of the Border Mexican recipes -over 300 recipes in all.

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Blessings and happy cooking,

Denese


Free Healthy Snacks And Muffins eCookbooks

After eating some of Mr. Food’s Decadent Desserts, you might want to fix something a little more healthy! ;)

40 Healthy Snack Recipes -48 pages of healthy snacks for children to adults. Includes low-fat, low-calorie, low-sodium and diabetic snacks.

FaveDiets

Healthy Muffins -25 healthy muffin recipes including whole wheat muffins, corn muffins, blueberry muffins, banana muffins, chocolate muffins and more.


Blessings and happy cooking,

Denese


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Free Ebook About The ADHD Fraud Plus Free Food Guide

Has your child been “diagnosed” with “ADHD”?

You might want to check out these very timely resources brought to you by Homeschool Freebie of the Day and Mike Adams “The Health Ranger”:

Live with Dr. Fred Baughman: The ADHD Fraud (PDF ebook) – In the last 30 years, the field of psychiatry has transformed childhood into a disease through the label of ADHD. Dr. Fred Baughman, a pediatric neurologist and fellow of the American Association of Neurologists explores the reasons for this in this transcribed interview. He is one of the few neurological experts that is willing come forward with the truth about ADHD and the mass drugging of America’s children. Have you ever wondered why other countries don’t have this explosion of mental illness in their kids? Have you ever wondered why people in your parent’s generation didn’t have these problems? The answers are all right here in this interview.

PLUS

The Honest Food Guide (PDF chart) – An outstanding chart on food choices & how they affect your family. Offers genuine nutritional information, not watered-down information designed to boost the sale of processed milk, beef and grain products.

Note: These links are no longer available at the Homeschool Freebie of the Day website, please see updated links below.

My personal experience with what “they” call “ADHD”:

  • Processed foods, especially food colorings and corn syrup, will affect a child -we got rid of the cheetos, hard candy and soda pops and there was no more bouncing off the walls, anger, and self-destructiveness. Every once in a while, my children get a soda or candy as a treat -and it takes two days for them to calm back down.
  • Exercise is also important -we noticed long ago that our children are calmer and can concentrate better if they get plenty of exercise such as running, jumping rope, hiking and long walks.
  • Drugs aren’t good -what about the side-effects? I’ve seen many children turned into walking zombies after being put on “ADHD” drugs.

Educate yourself, get the book and food chart -they’re free, so you have nothing to lose.

Blessings,

Denese


Updated Links:

Live with Dr. Fred Baughman: ADHD fraud and the chemical holocaust against a generation of children

The Honest Food Guide

Homeschool Freebies: Log Cabins, Puzzles, Home Management, First Aid

 

Daily Freebies From Homeschool Freebie of the Day

The Erskines have another great week of freebies for us:

Monday, August 17th: How To Build a Log Cabin! by Amy Puetz (pdf ebook) –A log cabin adventure and how to make your own log cabin using firewood.

Tuesday, August 18th: The Book of 500 Curious Puzzles (pdf ebook) –A classic collection of all sorts of odd and interesting puzzles, riddles, mazes, math problems and oddities to challenge and bemuse young puzzle lovers.  Originally published in 1859.

Wednesday, August 19th: Home Management Nuts & Bolts: Budgets and Schedules (mp3 audio) –Learn how to apply basic project management principles in the home to help you be a better steward of your time and money. Audio workshop by Marc Carrier.

Thursday, August 20th: Mary Frances First Aid Book (pdf ebook) –Another classic volume in the Mary Frances series; Mary Frances learns about First Aid from the adventures of her doll family, and along the way discovers some practical ways to render first aid to the sick and injured herself.

Friday, August 21st: How To Write A Novel (pdf ebook) -This delightful lesson series will teach your kids a great deal about the creative writing process, and in the process how to be wiser, more thoughtful readers of books written by others. It’s is a fun filled, playful, and highly creative eight-week class that your kids will long remember. And who knows? They may even end up writing their own book before it’s all said and done!

Each of these resources will be available on its specified day at Homeschool Freebie Of The Day.

 

Build More Log Cabins

Edible Pretzel Log Cabin –made with peanut butter, pretzels and crackers.

“Snow Covered” Pretzel Log Cabin –not edible, made with glue

Cinnamon Stick Log Cabin –craft project

Craft Stick Log Cabin –slideshow

Crayons Log Cabin –Build a colorful, mini-cabin out of crayons.

Build A Small Log Cabin (a real one) –Four-part reprint from a 1983 Popular Mechanics article, with illustrations.

Shelter, Shacks and Shanties by Daniel Beard –a 1914 classic from the founder of The Boy Scouts of America, free ebook to download or read online.

 

More Free Puzzles And Brain Teasers

Archimedes’ Lab -Puzzles & mental activities that enhance critical and creative thinking skills.

Puzzles, Mazes, Brain Teasers & Logic Games –From ExtremeIntellect.com. “a website for everyone interested in the subjects of IQ intelligence, genius, memory or simply increasing knowledge in yourself or students.” 

perplexus.info -simple logic questions and word tricks to in-depth math problems like probability and geometry. High degree of difficulty.

Braingle –Over 17,000 user-submitted brain teasers, riddles, logic problems, quizzes and mind puzzles.

 

Free First Aid Lessons

Teaching First Aid –lesson plans, puzzles, quizzes, coloring and activity books.

Learn to Save a Life: 10 Free Online First Aid Resources –a great little list of free online first aid courses and resources.

 

Related posts:

This Week’s Freebies From Homeschool Freebie Of The Day –for more Mary Frances books.

Free Logic Problems

Homeschool and Household Time Management and Planning Freebies

 

Blessings,

Denese

 

For even more free homeschooling resources, please check my educational freebies tag archive and my Free Homeschooling Page.

Yogurt, Yogurt And More Yogurt

I was looking for a few yogurt recipes and look what I found. :-o

From yogurt history to how to make your own – and a slew of recipes!

About Yogurt

The World’s Healthiest Foods: Yogurt – health and nutritional info

The Food Timeline: Yogurt

Yogurt’s History and Folklore

Bulgarian Yogurt

How Frozen Yogurt is Made (store-bought)

Making Yogurt

Creatively Simple – How to Make Homemade Yogurt – Step by step instructions. Newest e-book from Penny Raine, available as a free download through this weekend only.

Hillbilly Housewife: Homemade Yogurt Recipe

Video: Homemade Yogurt Making Part 1

Video: Homemade Yogurt Making Part 2

You Can Make Yogurt in Your Crockpot

Making Yogurt in a Dehydrator

Fias Co Farm: Yogurt – lists different incubation methods

Soy Yogurt

Coconut Milk Yogurt

Coconut Milk Yogurt – from canned coconut milk

Almond, Filbert or Macadamia Yogurt

Yogurt Cheese

Yogurt Cheese Recipe

Video: Yogurt Cheese

Fun and Facts About Yogurt Cheese

Cooking with Yogurt Cheese – how to make it, plus recipes

More Yogurt Cheese Recipes

Chives and Herbed Yogurt Cheese

Yogurt Cheese Appetizer

Yogurt Breads And Muffins

Irish Yogurt Bread

Herbed Yogurt Bread – Kosher, for bread machine

Green Onion And Yogurt Bread

Orange Yogurt Bread

Lemon Yogurt Bread

Cranberried Lemon Yogurt Bread

Blueberry Yogurt Bread

Super Moist Pumpkin Bread

Cherry Yogurt Bread – for bread machine

Yogurt-Oatmeal Muffins

Spiced Yogurt Muffins

Berries and Yogurt Muffins

Apple-Yogurt Muffins

Apple Cinnamon Yogurt Muffins

Carrot-Zucchini Yogurt Muffins

Chocolate Yogurt Muffins

Whole Grain Banana Yogurt Oatmeal Muffins

Yogurt Biscuits with Dill

Yogurt Salads

International Yogurt Cucumber Recipes – Cooling Cucumber Salad and

more, from Alexandra

Chickpea and Spinach Salad with Cumin Dressing and Yogurt Sauce


Mediterranean Beet and Yogurt Salad
– lovely color, also makes a good dip

Carrot-Yogurt Salad

Yogurt Rice Salad

Two-Tone Coleslaw with Celery Seed-Yogurt Dressing

Greek Yogurt Salad Dressing

Yogurt Deviled Eggs

Yogurt Soups

Green Chile Yogurt Soup

Afghan Yogurt Soup with Tomatoes

Potato, Bean, and Yogurt Soup

Hot Yogurt Soup With Barley and Cilantro

Curried Spinach Soup with Yogurt and Cilantro

Creamy Leek and Yogurt Soup

Longevity Spinach-Yogurt Soup

Summer Yogurt Soup with Tomato and Basil

Lentil and Yogurt Soup

Main and Side Dishes Made With Yogurt

Crispy Yogurt Chicken

Baked Yogurt Chicken

Grilled Yogurt Chicken with Mint

Lemon Herb Chicken with Yogurt Dill Sauce Recipe

Yogurt-Parmesan Chicken

Poached Salmon with Yogurt Dill Sauce

Fish in Tomato-Yogurt Gravy

Moroccan Swordfish with Caper-Yogurt Sauce

Grilled Whole Fish with Curried Yogurt Marinade

Corn-Crusted-Yogurt Fish

Passover Fish Pinwheels With Yogurt Mushroom-Matzo Stuffing


Beef and Lamb Spiedini with Yogurt Sauce Recipe
– Italian recipe

Beef Kabobs with Yogurt and Spices

Beef Stroganoff With Yogurt and Dill

Turkish Ground Beef and Yogurt Pasta

Yogurt And Pork Pasta Bake Recipe

Bacon-Yogurt Quiche

Zirbeyan Rice With Yogurt

Seasoned Yogurt Rice

Cucumber Yogurt Rice

Chilled Yogurt Rice

Yogurt Rice with Mango

Frozen Yogurt And Desserts

Vanilla Frozen Yogurt Recipe

Strawberry Frozen Yogurt Recipe

Chocolate Frozen Yogurt

Mint Chocolate Chip Frozen Yogurt Recipe

Frozen Peach Yogurt – with banana variation, healthy kids recipe.

Raspberry Frozen Yogurt

Peanut Butter Cup Frozen Yogurt

Coconut Frozen Yogurt

Elaine’s Coconut Milk Frozen Yogurt

Yogurt Almond Ice Cream

Sheep’s-Milk Yogurt Ice Cream

Orange Yogurt Frozen Dreams Recipe

Strawberry Yogurt Popsicles

Blueberry Yogurt Popsicles

Tie-Dye Yogurt Popsicles

Strawberry-Yogurt Swirl Pops

Greek Yogurt/Lemon Walnut Yogurt Dessert

Yogurt Rice Pudding

Yogurt Tartlets Recipe – Oat-crusted with a creamy, ginger-spiked yogurt filling.

Fruity Yogurt Scones

French Yogurt Cake

Blueberry Yogurt Coffee Cake

Pomegranate Yogurt Cake

Mango Yogurt Cake

Lemon Yogurt Cake

Yogurt Cheesecake

Very Berry Chocolate Chip Yogurt Cookies

Yogurt Smoothies

Apple Yogurt Smoothie

Banana Yogurt Smoothie

Raspberry-Banana Yogurt Smoothies

Triple Berry Banana Yogurt Smoothie

Banana Pineapple Yogurt Smoothie

Mango Banana Yogurt Smoothie

Strawberry Yogurt Smoothie

Blueberry Yogurt Smoothie

Cherry Yogurt Smoothie

Cherry Soy Yogurt Smoothie

Tropical Yogurt Smoothie

Maple Yogurt Smoothie

Peach Papaya Yogurt Smoothies

Healthy Strawberry, Kiwi and Honey Yogurt Smoothie

Frosty Pine-Orange Yogurt Smoothie

Chocolate Strawberry Smoothie

Chocolate Coconut Smoothie Recipe

More Yogurt Recipes

Armenian Yogurt Recipes -soups, main dishes, dips…even a beverage!

Redwood Hill Farm Goat Milk Yogurt Recipes
– appetizers, salads, main dishes desserts and drinks

Chobani: Greek Yogurt Recipes – desserts, sauces dressings

Yogurt Science

Science Experiment: Yogurt Cultures – middle grades

Activity: Observing Bacteria Cultures in Yogurt - highschool

Activity: Observing Bacteria Cultures in Yogurt – Part 2 – highschool

Do ya’ll think I got carried away? ;)

Happy cooking,


Denese


Home Remedies/Folk Medicine

Free Home Remedies E-books

Coughs, Earaches & Sore Throats: Natural Remedies that Work! -simple natural home remedies for three of the most common childhood complaints, free from Homeschool Freebie of the Day, today only.

Mother’s Remedies: Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada -downloadable e-book, originally published in 1910. From ManyBooks.net.

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure -by Dr. William Thomas Fernie, first published in 1895. E-book download from Project Gutenberg.

 

Websites About Home Remedies and Folk Medicine

Old Cures

Old Time Remedies

Forgotten Medical Cures: Out of the Past

Old West Legends: Old Time Cures & Remedies

Sedona Historical Society: Old Time Remedies for People & Animals

West Virginia Historical Society Quarterly: Folk Medicine by Peggy S. Fisher

UCLA Online Archive of American Folk Medicine

Folk Medicine in Hispanics in the Southwestern United States

The International Home Remedies Project

Lithuanian Folk Medicine

Midwives and Maternity Care in the Roman World

Ozarkian and Haitian Folk Medicine

Folk Medicine: Amish and Swiss-Pennsylvania German

Native American Healing Remedies and Folklore

The Vinegar Website

Great Uses for Vinegar

Old Time Cleaning Remedies

 

Home Remedies In The News

St. Petersburg Times: Old Time Remedies Work Best

Tried and True Home Remedies: CBS News Video

ABC News: Ethnic Home Remedies That Really Work

Old-Time Mosquito Remedy May Work Against Ticks, Too

 

Some Of Our Old Family Remedies

My grandfather used whiskey on on our gums when we were teething as babies.

I can remember my momma giving us lemon and honey tea for sore throats and we had a black salve for drawing out splinters.

My momma-in-law used catnip tea to calm babies, mullein tea for coughs and kerosene to repel chiggers.

My husband pours kerosene on wounds (ouch!).

 

Some Home Remedies I Use

  • vinegar on burns (not broken skin)
  • aloe for burns
  • garlic/mullein oil for clogged ears/earaches
  • an eyewash of eyebright or goldenseal tea for styes/pinkeye
  • mullein for coughs/bronchitis
  • homemade chicken soup for colds
  • honey for: sore throats,coughs, infected cuts and scrapes
  • witch hazel for skin conditions/to reduce swelling and redness (excellent for your face)
  • comfrey (as a poultice or salve) for cuts/bruises/broken bones/skin cancer
  • wild violet leaves (poultice) for skin conditions
  • sage/thyme/mullein/chamomile/peppermint/lemon balm/ginger/garlic/cayenne tea for colds and the flu (some or all)
  • ginger for upset stomach
  • licorice root for stomach upset/ulcers
  • cayenne/garlic for sinus problems
  • jewelweed (wild touch-me-not) for poison ivy (washing immediately in COLD spring water also works)
  • moistened tobacco on insect bites and stings
  • salt pork or bacon fat to draw out splinters
  • onion poultice for boils
  • mountain mint/mosquito plant to repel bugs (rubbed on skin and clothes)
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Free Resources For Learning About Herbs


Please note:  I am not a doctor and this is not intended to be medical advice.

 

Have a lovely day,

Denese

Free Resources For Learning About Herbs

Free E-books on Herbs

Herbs for Health and Happiness -42 page e-book covering growing, harvesting, using medicinal herbs, herbal lore and more. From Homeschool Freebie of the Day, available today only.

Culinary Herbs; Their Cultivation, Harvesting, Curing and Uses -all about the herbs we cook with. Originally published in 1912, free e-book from Internet Archive.

Herbal Tea Mini Recipe E-Book -sign up for access (scroll down for more recipes), from Crazy for Tea.

7 Everyday Herbs Made Simple Mini E-book -sign up for the free e-zine of herb tips and get this free e-book with ideas for using seven different culinary herbs and their reported health benefits. From Mad About Herbs.

Websites About Herbs

The Herb Society of America -definitions of herbs, herbal profiles and guides, Family Herb Corner with projects and activities.

LearningHerbs.com -free 7-day video herbal e-course "Supermarket Herbalism", sign up for newsletter and get a monthly herb lesson plus video e-book "Home Remedy Secrets -Building Your Herbal Medicine Chest".

The Herbal Collective -offers free newsletter with health tips, gardening ideas, cooking tips and more.

Wild Healing Herbs -sign up for their free newsletter that shows you how to integrate herbal healing into your life with ideas for simple projects, seasonal recipes and other herb news, plus recommendations for books and other resources.

The Herb Society UK -increasing the understanding, use and appreciation of herbs and their benefits to health.

Lingle’s Herbs -visit their Learning Center for growing guide, quick gardening tips and newsletters packed with neat stuff about herb gardening, cooking, and more.

United States Government Websites

National Institutes of Health: Herbal Medicine

The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine

 

Related Posts:

Home Remedies/Folk Medicine


Happy learning,

Denese

 

Salmonella Outbreak

Have you or anyone you know had the stomach flu lately? It might not be the flu!

A couple weeks ago, my 7 year old son, Daniel, came down with what we thought was a stomach virus, two days after a family get-together. He had stomach cramps, fever and the runs.
It took him a week to get over it!

Last night I found out there has been a Salmonella outbreak in 42 states, since October!

Salmonella outbreak spreads to 42 states, CDC says

The symptoms are exactly what Daniel had.

I thought I’d pass this on in case you’re like us and haven’t heard about it from your local news.

HT to SGPolitics on Twitter.

Stay well,

Denese