Reviews

Azure Standard Bulk Grocery Haul November 2021

I love Azure Standard, because they have standards, and they stick to them. I know that I can trust their products to be safe to feed my family. This is a company that I can support, because they have ethics and standards that align with my own. I can buy products in bulk or individual items too, if I so desire. This company makes it really simple and easy to order groceries and stock my pantry for winter or whatever life throws our way.

Strawberry Syrup
Recipes

Strawberry Syrup

My very first job was working at Dairy Queen. (Don’t worry, I never use that as a secret password or secret question.) I was always the front counter person, because people loved me for some reason, so that meant in the restaurant that I worked at the ice cream making was my responsibility. My favorite thing to make was banana split topped with candied walnuts of course. That little curl at the top of the ice cream is a DQ signature trademark, and it had to be just right! So, when I had any blizzard, sundae, or banana split to make, I loved to smell the syrups. That smell still takes me back. Say what you want, I loved working at Dairy Queen, and I had the best boss and coworkers!

Recipes

Vegan Lemon Curd Canning Recipe

One of my favorite blasts from the past is lemon curd….it is great as a pie filling, in lemon bars, on toast…on a spoon. haha I was craving lemon curd so much that I could almost taste it. You’ve been there right? Lemon curd is a very rich, very decadent dessert. It has the perfect mix of sweet and tart, with a nice thick buttery mouth feel. It is typically very easy and quick to make. If you love lemons, you will adore this Vegan Lemon Curd Recipe!

Recipes

Angel’s BBQ Sauce

This is a nice mellow sweet BBQ Sauce that packs a powerful punch in flavor with just a hint of heat to spice things up. You may be surprised at my two secret ingredients: cinnamon and clove. These bring a really nice layer of flavor that is very satisfying to the palate.

Mind, Body, & Soul

Let’s Talk About How to Declutter Your Heart, Mind, and Soul

We are inundated with ads that tell us we can’t live without Product A or we need Product B to be more efficient or worse to fit in with society. There are so many people who address de-cluttering your life, your home, etc, and I am not going to regurgitate that. However, I want to talk with you about de-cluttering your heart, mind and soul. We know that our homes, our closets, our drawers, our offices, our automobiles are overcrowded with things that we really don’t need, but have you ever given any thought to the clutter that you accumulate in your mind? In your heart? In your Soul? And how all this junk affects the health of your body…your self-talk…your opinion of yourself…? That is the subject that I want to talk with you about today.

Mind, Body, & Soul

Let’s Talk Menstrual Health: Dermal Absorption & Replacing Chemically Treated Disposable Maxi Pads and Tampons with Reusable Washable Cloth Pads

It is well known that our skin can absorb things that it comes into contact with; to give some examples, there are nicotine and morphine patches, cortisone creams, pain relief creams, and the list goes on. So, it has been well known in the medical community and in the general public information domain that we can absorb things into our blood stream through what is called dermal absorption. It is not a surprise that we can absorb chemicals through dermal absorption as well. I will link below an article on the CDC’s website about just that (CDC, 2013). What we do not typically think about is the effect of chemicals on our clothes and other items that come into contact with our skin and how they can affect our hormones and physical and mental health. Obviously, we should take care about what we put against our skin, but how much more so the sensitive skin in and around our lady bits? Inside the vagina is more sensitive to dermal absorption than the skin on the outside of our body.