Filed under: Holidays, In The Kitchen, My Kids, Random Geekery, Recipes, Things I Do, Things I Make, Things I Overheard | Tags: age 6, birthday, castle cake, Rice Krispie squares
I often joke about how my oldest son is destined to be a foodie — he’s already specific in his salt preferences (Andean rock salt then sea salt, over regular table salt) and his favorite food other than olives in any form is deep dish spanokopita. I harbour no such thoughts with my youngest. He has wonderfully simple tastes — his favorite food in the world is a peanut butter sandwich on whole wheat. His second favorite is macaroni and cheese (homemade, of course).
As his birthday is tomorrow, I asked him what he’d like for his special supper and dessert.
Filed under: How-To, Recipes, Things I Make | Tags: Christmas, DIY, frugal, gifts, handmade, Yule
Like to make gifts, but are pushed for time? Want to give homemade, but feel uncreative? Essential oil reed diffusers are easy to make with extra points for presentation — they look so pretty when done! They are also a welcome, more natural way to fill a home with lovely scents!
Diffusers allow you to use essential oils to scent your home instead of heavy chemically-scented products that easily irritate eyes and airways. They are natural, fairly non-toxic (depending on your oil choices) and blend better with a home’s own “scent”.
Filed under: Hippy Shit, In The Kitchen, People I Know, Recipes, Things I Eat | Tags: Baking, beet cake, cake, CSA, Rae, Recipes, vegetables
I’ve been pretty big into making desserts with vegetables as the late summer harvest goes into overdrive — making a beet cake to use up those prolific, purple roots appearing in my CSA order seemed a no-brainer.
Filed under: Health Stuff, Hippy Shit, How-To, In The Kitchen, Recipes, Things I Make | Tags: DIY, exfoliate, health and beauty, homemade, How-To, natural products, Recipes
With all the warning coming out about this chemical or that chemical, I thought I’d share a ‘recipe’ for a simple exfoliating scrub that you can make with ingredients found in your kitchen. This product is super-effective and so safe you could eat it — quite literally!
Filed under: How-To, In The Kitchen, Make Lists of Things, Random Geekery, Recipes, Review Things, The Urban Jungle, Things I Do | Tags: home canning, urban foraging, urban hippy, urban homesteading, urban jungle, video tutorials
I’ve finally stopped joking about it and started freely admitting that, yes, I am an “urban hippy” in most ways. My acceptance of Hippydom came, I believe, last summer when using the sledgehammer to smash up donated, “found”, and recycled concrete patio stones to make a rather organic-looking seating area in my back garden. (I will be creating something similar in the side yard this year, for those who are curious.)
DH, being home, unemployed, and generally driving me nutty now, has fully embraced his own inner hippy and has been busy as a beaver setting up a website where we can play online. My blog isn’t going anywhere, but I will have a few things that are cross-posted to the new site (product reviews, etc). Pretty much everything I’d post to the recipe site will be also found on urbanhippy.ca.
