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     Our first taste of Pumpkin Soup was at a tea room outside of Gatlinburg, TN.  We left hooked on the soup and on tea rooms!  We usually enjoy this soup on Friday evening and have the added bonus of leftovers for the weekend. 

     Hope you enjoy!

Warm Pumpkin Soup

Broccoli Cauliflower Salad

1 cup mayonnaise (non-hydrogenated please )

Whole Wheat Butter Crescent Rolls

These rolls are a great way to break into eating whole wheat.  My niece, who would never eat anything whole wheat, loved these.  Children really enjoy making them, too. 

We usually have these for Thanksgiving dinner.  They are great with chicken salad as well.  I have also made mini versions for serving at a party.

Blessings,

Marcie

Chicken Broth!                 

     Many good soup recipes begin with chicken broth.  I have found the quality of the chicken broth makes a big difference in the taste of the soup.  While there are chicken broths you can purchase, (my favorite being the Imagine brand), homemade chicken broth is easy to make and quite inexpensive.  So here goes…

1  4-5 # natural or organic chicken (got to recommend the healthiest )

      Place all of the ingredients into a large stock pot.  Fill with water (about 4 quarts).  Cook on high until boiling.  Cover and reduce heat to maintain a medium boil.  Cook for about 2-21/2 hours or until chicken is tender.  My technical way to decide if it is done is to see if the legs will easily come off.

      For the delicious cooked chicken, I remove it from the bone and freeze in 2 cup quantities. Most recipes calling for cooked chicken usually call for 2 cups.

 Now you have the beginnings of several good meals, including Pumpkin Soup.

Blessings,

Marcie

     Have you ever contemplated the goodness and wisdom of the Lord in the foods He gives us in season?  I guess these thoughts  came to me when home educating my first kindergartener.  (Another benefit to home educating).  

     In the summer, when we are outside working and loosing fluid, He gives us fruits such as watermelon that are mostly water.  In the fall, when our bodies are a little more stressed due to changes in weather, He gives us colorful vegetables like those in the squash family that are full of anti-oxidents to strengthen our immune systems.  His provisions for us are perfect! 

     This Pumpkin Loaf may not be perfect, but I hope your family enjoys it as much as ours does!

Harvest Pumpkin Loaves

   Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Grease 2 loaf pans.

 Cream butter; gradually add sugar; mix in eggs, 1 at a time.  Set aside.

 Combine the next seven ingredients.

 Glaze: 

Blessings,

Marcie

Here is a link to my friend Kelly’s skin care products. She is having an awesome sale!  Click on the picture to learn more.

Happy Savings!

Marcie

       Concern over vaccines is high.  I do think it is best to be informed.  When my daughter was little, she received some of the vaccines.  After a seizure from her 6th month vaccines, my thoughts about vaccines really changed.  If she were little now, we would skip the vaccines (and the doctor’s check-ups).

     These are some of the reasons why:

     Several of the vaccines routinely given to children have been grown from aborted fetuses.  Besides the ethical questions, and how disgustingly sick that is, there are questions about genetic material from the aborted fetus being passed on through the vaccine.  They do not know what problems that might cause.

     Go here http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/abortedtissue.htm  to find out more about this disturbing fact.

    Vaccines have been linked to Autism.   iHealthTube videos discusses Vaccinations linked to rise in Autism:

http://ihealthtube.com/aspx/search.aspx?s=autism%20and%20vaccines

Here is an interesting video on what mercury does to brain cells, ( adults as well as children’s)

     The other day, I posted about experiments to modify seeds with vaccines.

      Did you know that some vaccines containing birth control have been given to women of childbearing age without informing the women?

Here is a link to an interesting blog about it by my friend Kelly:

http://www.generationcedar.com/main/2009/07/population-control-through-tetanus-vaccine.html

     This is a lot to think about.  But isn’t it better to have the information before the injection?

Blessings,

Marcie

What!! ! Not drink their milk?  Well, Katie has been at it again, this time reading about genentic modification of milk.  Yes, milk.

    Back in 1993, Monsanto was granted permission by the FDA to market Bovine Growth Hormone known as BGH or BST.  This hormone is given to cause cows to produce 25% more milk.  Bovine Growth Hormone is a naturally occurring hormone.  Researchers took this gene and spliced it with E. coli bacteria in order for it to reproduce.  After the desired reproduction occurs, the bacteria is killed off  and the BGH/BST is harvested.

   What are the results of this growth hormone?  For the cows, the increased milk production causes udder infections.  This leads to cows being given antibiotics.

     How does this affect the milk?  Milk from cows given growth hormones has been found to have more puss in it from the udder infections.    Another substance, IGF-1 has been found to increase in milk from these cows.  There are possible links between IGF-1 and cancer.  Also, antibiotics are in the milk.

     A friend of mine recently told me about a 25 year old young woman suffering from breast cancer.  This cancer was thought to be related to growth hormones.  I have noticed if I’m not careful about the dairy products I use,  they cause a migraine headache.  Other health problems associated with pasterized and or homogenized milk are degenerative arthitis, heart disease, cateract, and failure to thrive.  Want to learn more?  The Milk Book  is a good source.

 Also, this website has some interesting information. 

 http://www.shirleys-wellness-cafe.com/bgh.htm

     The Lord talked of milk as a blessing ” A land flowing with milk and honey”.  If available, we do enjoy the blessing of “real” milk; fresh and raw.  Otherwise, we are fortunate enough to have a local dairy that does not use growth hormones or homogenize their milk.   Ask around.  You may be surprised at what is available.  And then, go ahead and drink your milk.

Blessings,

Marcie     

From Smithsonian Institution Libraries

“I call on heaven and earth as witnesses today that I have offered you life or death, blessings or curses. Choose life so that you and your descendants will live.”  Deuteronomy 30:19

     Science has provided many wonderful blessings.  Take computers, for instance.  Science has also provided many curses.  Take genetically modified seeds, for instance.

     Back in 1998, a new genetic technology was patented by Monsanto that causes plants to poison and kill their own seeds.  This is a 3 part process. 

     Three new genes are inserted into a plant.  One codes for a toxin that can kill seeds.  Another DNA blocks production of the toxin.  Before seeds are sold, they are treated with another solution that removes the gene that blocks the toxin.  As the plants from these seeds grow,  the toxin is produced.  This causes the new seeds produced by the plants to die, making it impossible for the farmer to harvest seeds for next year’s crops.

     Farmers then have to purchase new seeds each year.  The seed supply is left in the control of the seed companies.  Can you see a danger here?

     We do look for non-gm’d seeds to grow  in our garden.  The dogs love them!    (We did get to enjoy the eggplant and okra.)   I’m excited about harvesting my first seeds from the okra.  Seed harvesting has been very intimidating to me.  Gardening has been intimidating!   Here is a video I found to show me how to harvest okra seed:

http://www.ehow.com/how_4546227_glean-okra-seeds.html

     There are lots of seed companies today who are dedicated to preserving seeds that “reproduce after their own kind.”    Seeds of Change and Baker’s Creek are to companies I have purchased from.   

     I would love to know what seeds you have harvested and how you did it.  I’ll try to let you know how the okra seed harvesting goes.

Marcie

Concerned about the Swine Flu?   The Swine Flue Vaccine?

Here are a couple of informative clips on the Swine Flu Vaccine:

O.K. – You be the desider.

Practicing good handwashing is the simplest and best defense.  

Take care,

 Marcie

olive oil

     My son was born with reflux, the kind you don’t get over by yourself.   I stayed very busy just trying to keep him healthy and growing.   I didn’t have time to research it much or to make healthy food.  I will share with you a fewof things I did learn about dealing with reflux .

     Stay away from fried foods and pasturized and homogenized milk.  This is good advice for all of us, but for someone who has gastric reflux, it is a must. 

     Stay away from soft drinks.  Period, the end.  Tea and coffee are best avoided as well or at least in drank in  moderation.

     Those are the conventional things to avoid.  The other thing I tell people is STAY  AWAY FROM ANYTHING HYDROGENATED!   This is THE biggie.  It is also the hardest to do.  So many products have hydrogenated oil in them.  These oils are just not digestible.  The average person’s digestion will be slightly bothered by them, but for the person with reflux, it is awful.

     There are many good alternatives to hydrogenated oils.  I know margarine is much less expensive than butter, but if you don’t need the meds or doctor to treat reflux any more,  butter turns into a bargin.  There are great substitutes for shortening as well.  Palm oil shortening works very well, is good for you and is digestable!  Trade in that old corn oil for virgin olive oil.  You will be glad you did.

     Several years ago, I was listening to a cancer doctor talking about preventing breast cancer.  In his opinion, most breast cancer could be prevented by elimating hydrogenated oil from the diet!   Doesn’t that make changing oils more appealing?

     Lastly, for reflux, we added a digestive enzymes suppliment to his diet.  This was made from papaya and pineapple.  After 2 years of  strong medicine,  major surgery and diet change, it was the diet changes and digestive enzyemes that  got him comfortable enough to sleep through the night and begin healing.  Fifteen years later, we thank the Lord that he is enjoying good health.  He  is my night owl, though

     “Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along well.” (3 John 2)

Blessings,

Marcie

     O.K., a little sick humor for you.  We were out doing errands and drove through our favorite fast food place to get a drink.  We don’t do fast food, but Katie really likes their lemonade. 

     Her lemonade comes, and it is pink!  She looks at it and says ” Oh, it is pink.”  The fast food person says ” Yah, it is pink for Breast Cancer awareness week!  We just add a little red food coloring.  It tastes the same.”  Katie replies, ” We try to avoid red food coloring because it has been linked to causing cancer”. 

     We drive out as Katie says, “Irony”. 

And I really needed that laugh today.

Blessings,

Marcie