What Are You Going to Do With All That Apple Butter?

Yesterday, I gave you a recipe for how to make apple butter in the crock pot. It is a long process, but is well worth the effort as the apple butter in my opinion tastes better when it’s fresh. (I’m not sure what doesn’t taste better when it’s fresh and made from scratch.) This recipe makes quite a large quantity of apple butter so for weeks on end you can now enjoy toast with apple butter! Actually, apple butter makes a good condiment for chicken or pork chops for your little picky eater. Or, you can make my absolutely delicious … Continue reading

Don’t Offer Don’t Refuse

Long before bloggers took their little break and I went on vacation, I promised that I would start discussing weaning your baby. So far we’ve gone over abrupt weaning and some of the intense consequences there are for weaning your child abruptly. However, it must be said that generally, mothers wean abruptly because of uncontrollable circumstances like illness, or an emergency. While it’s not best for either baby or mother–it simply cannot be helped. For the purposes of this article, we are going to assume that the ‘baby’ in question is over a year old. Babies under a year who … Continue reading