The Simple Lives Thursday Blog Hop
Welcome to Simple Lives Thursday, a blog hop dedicated to simple living. “Consume less, produce more. ” So many topics fit: Gardening, raising animals, cooking from scratch, real food, natural cleaners, sewing, recycling, thrifting, a mindset of simplicity, saving a buck…
This blog hop is hosted by:
- Diana @ A Little Bit of Spain in Iowa
- Annette @ Sustainable Eats
- Alicia @ Culinary Bliss
- Mare @ Just Making Noise
- And me!
Featured Posts from Last Week’s Submissions
We really enjoy reading your posts each week! Featured post bloggers, please grab the badge above and display it on your site! Link it to one of the host blogs’ posts for the specific week that you were featured.
Here are our picks from last week’s submissions. Thanks to all who participated — it is always hard to choose!
1. What’s Going On In Woodwife’s Kitchen? by The Woodwife’s Journal. This week Woodwife explores folklore and recipes for common plants that ease everyday ailments.
2. Pan-Seared Salmon by The Purposed Heart. This salmon dish looks incredible and in only 10 minutes would make an excellent choice for a real food weekday meal.
3. Four Bathroom Essentials by Mexican Wildflower. Four natural household products that can be used to make almost any essential toiletry.
4. iCandy: Corn Syrup-Free Cranberry Yummy Gummies by Frugal Kiwi. Easy and inexpensive diy gummy treats for the family!
5. How to Perfectly Roast a Potato by The Table of Promise. Learn how to bake the perfect roasted potato — crispy skin, steamy soft inside and buttery delicious. Plus this is a walk-away meal, in that you can walk away and do other things while it is baking!
Share Your Simple Lives Thursday Post
Bloggers, make a “Simple Lives Thursday” post on your own blog, then come back here to add your post to the linky box below the featured posts. If you don’t have a picture, feel free to download the Simple Lives Thursday banner (at top of post) and upload it using the script’s prompts (it is easy). Your post will appear on all five blogs!
Non-bloggers, feel free to add a comment here with any ideas or thoughts about simple living.
These are two simple guidelines for participation:
1. If linking real, traditional and simple recipes, please make sure all ingredients used are whole — such as whole grains, vegetables, legumes, meats, even sugar. In order to keep the integrity of “nourishing” food, we will delete any recipes that utilize processed, boxed foods. We are definitely not going to be ingredient policemen! But, please note that this is a hop hosted by advocates of the real, local and sustainable food movements.
2. Please link your posts back to one of the hosting blogs. This is a common blog hop courtesy. This link helps build the Simple Lives Thursday community by sending your readers to all of the other participants’ posts. We all end up sharing and learning from each other.
What will you share this week? We all look forward to your submissions!
If reading this via email, visit this post to see the list of linked blogs.
About Wardee Harmon
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Thanks for hosting! I like the new look of GNOWFGLINS and look forward to browsing around a little more and sitting in on the homeschool class when I get an extra hour! Thanks for all you do here! Blessings, ~Lisa
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Thank you for hosting! This week I have shared the following seasonal farm-to-table recipes that I made last week:
brazil nut pesto cream
http://theintentionalminimalist.blogspot.com/2011/09/brazil-nut-pesto-cream-heirloom-tomato.html
arugula salad with brazil nut pesto cream dressing
http://theintentionalminimalist.blogspot.com/2011/09/arugula-salad-with-brazil-nut-pesto.html
spicy-n-sweet pepper & corn salad
http://theintentionalminimalist.blogspot.com/2011/09/spicy-n-sweet-pepper-corn-salad.html
Happy cooking!
The Intentional Minimalist
Thanks for hosting! I posted a profile of hibiscus flower with recipe ideas.
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Thank you ladies for hosting:)
Thank you all for hosting! I really love all the super informative posts and I have for years:) Today I linked up a creative food storage idea, Meals in Jars, http://frugallysustainable.blogspot.com/2011/09/meals-in-jars.html I hope everyone has a great day:)
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Hi,
I don’t see the blog hop. Are you having some sort of technical difficultly?
Ruth recently posted… Easy One-Pot Chicken Dinner
Ruth — It isn’t loading at the moment for me, either. It is there though — try again in 15 minutes or so.
Working now! I posted a great, easy chicken dish and about Gaps Intro Stage 1.
Thanks for hosting.
Ruth recently posted… Easy One-Pot Chicken Dinner
Hi!!
Thanks for featuring my post on roasting potatoes! I truly appreciate that!
This week I shared a recipe for Sausage and Eggplant Casserole. And it’s a doosey.
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Thanks for hosting Wardee! You picked some great ones. That baked potato looks awesome!
I linked up my first take on water kefir…..we are NOT fans.
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Thanks for featuring my Cranberry Yummy Gummies. I love being able to make a corn-syrup free treat that is coloured by fruit juice instead of Red Dye #3! Plus I’m a sucker for cranberry anything.
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Hi Wardee,
Thanks for hosting!
I added my post about pH by accident, I didn’t realize that I already added this post a while back. I’m sorry about the repeat..
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Thanks for hosting! Still typing up this week’s recipe, but the windy day had me digging out my standard How to Make a Nourishing Chicken Stock recipe: http://s-kakes.blogspot.com/2011/04/making-nourishing-chicken-stock.html Surpasses any store bought stock in nutrition AND taste! This is a staple recipe for me and I’ve also made it with chicken feet (even better)!
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Hi, Wardee. I shared a recipe for chocolate cake with buttercream icing today. Thank you for hosting us!
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I know I’m a day late, but I’ve shared two posts this week–one on a honey face mask for clear, glowing skin and the other on barefoot running tip #3 (bend your knees more than you think you need to). Hope everyone enjoys!
Hi, Wardee. I am sharing my grandmother’s chow-chow recipe today. This is a tasty recipe for vegetables that are in season now. Thank you for hosting us again this week!
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