Kathleen | Roots & Boots
Chocolate Chip Cookies with Almond Flour
I may or may not have eaten four of these the other night. In under an hour. Not only are these cookies oh-so-delicious, they’re also free of gluten, sugar (except for the sugar in the chocolate chips) and eggs. Almond flour makes them especially nutritious, which is what I may or may not have told…
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How to Encourage a Hurting Friend
It’s safe to say that each of us has been on both sides: we’ve all experienced times of suffering and we’ve also stood by and watched loved ones suffer. When a friend is in crisis, it can be hard to know what to do. We want to demonstrate care and concern, but we’re afraid of…
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Favorite Valentine’s Day Books for Children
Happy February! It’s the month of love. Want to know which books we enjoy reading during the first half of February, in honor of Valentine’s Day? You’re in luck! Our top picks are listed below.
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Real Food for the Super Bowl
Looking for gluten-free Real Food for your Super Bowl party? Look no further! A few ideas from our Yankee Homestead…Enjoy! Crispy Nuts—My recipe is for plain nuts. (Plain as in “no added flavors.” They do have salt.) If you prefer spiced nuts, check out these over at Elana’s Pantry: Paleo Spiced Nuts. For her recipe,…
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Crispy Nuts: Why and How to Soak Your Nuts
Wondering why and how to soak your nuts in order to make crispy nuts? In a nutshell (see what I did there), we soak raw nuts and dry them in order to make them more nutritious to the body and more easily digested.
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Should You Get the Flu Shot?
The Flu Shot and Other Vaccines There is so much hype in the media about the flu and the flu shot, but few people know much about the vaccine itself.
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Happy Winter: this year’s favorite winter book
Happy Winter by Karen Gundersheimer is our new favorite children’s book for winter. (Last year, it was Red Fox Running by Eve Bunting, of which I can still recite the first four lines: Red fox running, / Running through the snow, / White sky above / And white earth below. / ). We discovered Happy…
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Favorite Natural Laundry Products: Detergent, Stain Remover and Dryer Balls
“Clean” doesn’t have a smell. That’s one of the {ahem} few useful things I learned from the Oprah show, years ago. It’s really stuck with me! Thanks, Oprah! It’s true: most of the scents in cleaning products are completely artificial, meant to mimic natural scents. But they’re NOT natural at all! And many are actually…
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Fried Plantains
On a whim at the grocery store the other day, I picked up two plantains. I’m not exactly sure why, but they were calling to me, reminding me of the amazing fried plantains I enjoyed long ago at the home of a friend’s Puerto Rican grandmother. She actually allowed me to assist in the process,…
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Ditching Paper Napkins for Good (hopefully)
I’m not the greenest gal on the face of the planet, but I like to do what I can. We’ve tried using cloth napkins before, but it’s never stuck. For one thing, we had supply issues. There simply weren’t enough napkins to last between launderings. Actually, we do technically have enough napkins, but most…
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