Slicin’, Corin’, Peelin’.

I recently found Amber at Real Food with Kids and we made her Raw Fermented Applesauce. I *hate* the taste of most fermented foods but know I really should be eating all the beneficial bacteria they offer. I did a little digging and found this recipe and I LOVE it! I am sooo happy to find a yummy way to eat fermented foods!

Some pics of our process:

Kitchen Revelation

I don’t know why it took me so long to realize that the best way for me to feel comfortable in the kitchen would be for me to approach it as I would in the same place I usually feel comfortable: the classroom.

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How to Properly Prepare Almonds

We’re big fans of the Weston A. Price foundation so I thought I’d do a post on how to soak and dehydrate almonds. Preparing nuts this way allows our body to better take in their nutrients and helps to weaken the self-protecting defenses of nuts that end up hurting our stomachs.

Soak 4 Cups of almonds with 1 Tbs of mineral sea salt in filtered water.

We finally got a Berkey last year and LOVE it. Make sure the water goes an inch above the almonds. They’ll plumb as it’s absorbed – I didn’t know that the 1st time : )

Let it sit over night or, as I do, 24 hours : )

Realness

I haven’t blogged in a while because the USB cord that remotely connects my workstation to the computer in Nate’s office has been on the fritz.

Other times it could be a clingy babe, needing to make food, or a bunch of House Hunters Renovation episodes showed up on my DVR 🙂

Or, I just plum don’t feel like it/got nothing to say really.

I want to address the atmosphere of this site. I hate portraying our life as fantastic and sweet because while it is amazing it’s so far from perfect. I do like sharing my struggles, but it’s hard to gauge when I’m heading into complaining territory. Plus, I don’t want to focus on the bad or give the ugly parts too much mental weight. I want this site to be a small corner of cyber space that holds memories for us to look back on that I don’t have to worry about losing, or getting burned, or taking up space.

So I’m kind of stuck.

I don’t want Autumn to come to these pages as a mom and think I had it all figured out and since she’s struggling she must be failing.
I don’t want my friends, curious or new to the things I’m into to be turned off by the time it takes or the knowledge they don’t seem to have.
I don’t want wives and girlfriends to see the posts showcasing Nate’s romantic side and feel discontent with there guys.

Motherhood is rough. Rich and full of good things, but o how I wish there was a pause button.
Slow food is so interesting and good for us but I feel so behind and literally am learning at a snail’s pace (is that where the “slow” part comes in?) at every.single.step. Squeezing it in as life allows.
Nathan is i.n.c.r.e.d.a.b.l.e! I love that man and appreciate how hard and long he works for us and the way he pushes us to improve. But he also has the power to make me lose my mind from frustration or make me want to go away to the bedroom and cry because if something he didn’t do or shouldn’t have said.

Not so perfect.

But still, I think I can keep it real in a category on here without taking away from the whole blog.

Some things to keep in mind:
-My problems, are 1st world problems – I have it really good.
-Through Christ, all is redeemable and made new. Nothing to fear, nothing to make us hide away in shame (for those who are known by Him).
-I’ll share shortcomings and frustrations, but I’ll have nate proof read each one and won’t put him or Autumn down through it. They’re not perfect, but the works doesn’t need to know about the details.

Man. I feel better already (:

Morgan (loves to) Reid