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Entries from January 11th, 2011

Seeking the Perfect Homemade Whole Wheat: Essential Eating’s Sprouted Bread and Rolls (no. 2)

January 11th, 2011 · 21 Comments · Recipes

Time for the second installment of “let’s watch the girl who doesn’t know a whit about bread baking try to figure out how to make the perfect loaf!” There were so many excellent comments on last week’s two posts (the introduction and first recipe) that I now have SEVENTEEN bread recipes on my list, plus [...]

Monday Mission: You Can Make Homemade Yogurt!

January 10th, 2011 · 67 Comments · Monday Missions

Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to make homemade yogurt – even if you’ve been afraid to do it in the past! Impact Ratings: Level of Commitment: Making Strides Making homemade yogurt has long been a foundational Kitchen Stewardship habit, because it is something you can do that fulfills all four pillars of [...]

Test Your Grains: More Survey Results

January 7th, 2011 · 9 Comments · Upgraded Nutrition

Before the holiday break, I shared with you the first set of results from the Test Your Grains Challenge, in which participants committed to eating grains only prepared in a certain style for 7-10 days: all refined grains, all whole grains, soaked, sprouted, sourdough, gluten-free, or no grains were the choices. To recap: People observed [...]

An Update on Homemade Deodorant

January 6th, 2011 · 69 Comments · Green Living

It’s been over a year since I posted the baby steps I used to move from traditional antiperspirant to an actual homemade deodorant. Many of you have taken the plunge as well (if you haven’t, winter is a great time to start something like this!) and I wanted to update you on what I’ve learned [...]

One More Quick Sale for your New Year’s Resolutions

January 5th, 2011 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Lisa Byrne (from The WellGrounded Life) just opened registration for her Designed for Wellness, healthy living course for busy moms, which is set to begin January 29. I am popping a quick post out to tell you about it because for the first 4 days of registration, the course is 50% off (a HUGE savings [...]

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Seeking the Perfect Homemade Whole Wheat: Sweet and Simple (no. 1)

January 5th, 2011 · 50 Comments · Recipes

Welcome to the inaugural recipe in the Seeking the Perfect Homemade Whole Wheat Bread series here at Kitchen Stewardship! The first bread recipe I’m going to share with you is one that I fiddled with in December, testing it a number of different ways to find out how flexible it was. I still might try [...]

Introducing Seeking the Perfect Homemade Whole Wheat Bread

January 4th, 2011 · 69 Comments · Recipes

My sourdough starter may suffer for this, but I’ve been testing out yeasted breads for you all lately. I’ve got a number of recipes up my sleeve and more to come, and only a few loaves that have turned out concave. It is my fervent goal to find the perfect homemade whole wheat bread: packed [...]