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Teriyaki Salmon

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Teriyaki Salmon
From the Menu Mailer

4 salmon fillets
½ cup coconut oil, melted
5 cloves garlic, pressed
2½ tbs grated ginger
2 Tbs lime juice
2 Tbs sesame oil
2 Tbs rice vinegar
2 Tbs raw honey
1 cup tamari, soy sauce or coconut aminos (soy sauce substitute recipe is in the Often Used Recipes eBook)
½ tsp pepper

Place salmon fillets in a glass baking dish. In a small bowl, whisk remaining ingredients until combined. Pour over salmon and turn to coat. Cover and refrigerate 2-3 hours. Grill over hot coals 5-7 minutes per side, bake for 12-15 minutes at 350 degrees or pan-fry 3-5 minutes per side, until the fish flakes when tested with a fork.

 

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‘Fast Food’ Breakfasts

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One of the main complaints about Traditional Foods meals is the amount of time needed to plan and assemble the meals. Sometimes it seems like every ingredient needs advance preparation. There are a variety of strategies to combat this problem. Making a menu plan with a preparation schedule is extremely important. Batch cooking tried-and-true recipes is another essential tool, to have leftovers or freeze the excess for another meal.

By far, the hardest meal to deal with for many is breakfast. It’s not that the planning ahead or cooking is difficult. The issue is that for most people, mornings are the most hectic part of the day. Many moms tell me they throw up their hands and give in to their children’s pleas for a bowl of cereal (with raw milk) when the alarm doesn’t go off or another mishap happens that cuts into the amount of time set aside to get ready. How many mornings have you had the dryer eat your clothing, the baby spit up on your only clean top or the wild hunt for the missing toddler shoe that got up and walked off by itself?

The best way I have found to circumvent these mornings is [Read more…] about ‘Fast Food’ Breakfasts

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Quick Meals- Forbidden Chicken

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This is one of my go-to meals when I am in a great hurry time-wise when I had planned to cook dinner.  You know those evenings, where you have some meat thawed and a meal planned, but something comes up that needs your attention instead?  I use it when I have time for the oven to do all of the work but I don’t have the time to stand there.

The chicken takes me about 10 minutes to get it in the oven.  If I don’t have any leftover rice in the fridge, have one of the kids scrub some potatoes, poke them with a fork, rub with oil and salt them.  I place them in a baking dish and put them in the oven when I begin pre-heating it, before I put in the chicken.  Check them when the chicken is done, as they might need a few extra minutes.

Then I pull out some leftover veggies or 10 minutes before the chicken comes out of the oven, I saute up some pre-prepared kale and I have a quick meal on the table in less than 20 minutes of hands-on time.  Prepare your greens when you get home from the store.  Wash them, cut them, dry them thoroughly and roll it all up in some paper towels, sealing it in a ziplock bag.  You have a quick side dish whenever you need it.

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Ring in the New Year- Rumaki

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This year, I am most thankful to see 2010 leave.  Not for myself, as we did not experience upheaval, but because some dear friend’s lives have seen 2010 marked with death, sickness and tragedy.  I will gladly welcome 2011 as a fresh start, as I know they will.

I prefer to be asleep or close to it when the ball drops in Time’s Square. But I know many folks love a party, so the New Year’s mailer contained an assortment of party foods for New Year’s Eve.  If you’d like to purchase that issue, you can do so here.  This is a recipe from that mailer.  The mailer contains normal meal Monday through Thursday, Friday has appetizers and multiple desserts, all finger foods.  Saturday has a traditional New Year’s meal.

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Kid’s Crafts- Pomanders

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This past week, we were given a bag of oranges.  The kids didn’t want to eat them because they were quite sour.  This morning, I was glancing through Herb Companion, one of the few magazines I subscribe to, and they mentioned pomanders.  I remembered the ones I had encountered, wrapped in ribbon and smelling of spice cake, in my great-grandmother’s closets growing up.  I knew they were a traditional Christmas gift and would take a few weeks to dry, so doing them now would be perfect.  So I broke out the whole cloves and bamboo skewers, sat the kids down at the dining room table and we went to work.

The basic idea is that you pierce the orange with a nail, needle or skewer to make it easy to push the tip of the clove into the orange.  The orange will shrink over time as the clove oil preserves it, so you want to space the cloves about 1/4″ apart.  You can make designs or patterns if you like. If you’d like to hang it with a ribbon, you can use some masking tape to cover those places.

Once you are done, dust the orange in ground cinnamon with a little nutmeg, ginger or other spice if you want those smells as well.  Leave the oranges in the bowl in a cool, dry place and re-dust them daily for seven days.  Over the next 2-3 weeks, the orange will dehydrate.

Once the pomander is completely dehydrated, it will sound hollow when tapped.  We will then wrap them in fabric, tie a ribbon around the top and hang each one in a bedroom closet. I’ll be sure to get a picture of the finished products and post it near Christmas.

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KerryAnn Foster runs Cooking Traditional Foods, the longest running Traditional Foods Menu Mailer on the internet. KerryAnn has over nine years of traditional foods experience and is a former Weston A. Price Foundation chapter leader. Founded in 2005, CTF helps you feed your family nourishing foods they will love. Each mailer contains one soup, five dinners, one breakfast, on dessert and extras. You can learn more about our Menu Mailers at the CTF website. For a free sample Menu Mailer, join our mailing list. You can also join our forum to chat with other traditional foodists and learn more.

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Herbal Remedies- Cough II

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Early last week, I came down with a head cold.  When I became ill, we assumed it was the flu as I had been exposed to someone with the flu a few days before, so I treated it the wrong way.  By the time we realized it was just a cold, it was too late to get my normal measures to work as most natural remedies work best if you use them at the onset of an illness.   The miserable portion of the cold was over fairly quickly, but the cough hung on.  And on.  And on.  Now, ten days later, I’m finally up the upswing but I’m still coughing and my stomach muscles are shot.  I’m not prone to lung problems, so this really caught me off guard.

Generally speaking, I do not wish to suppress a wet, productive cough because getting the mucus out of your body is the quickest way to heal.  So I focus on ways to break up and remove the mucus, and only stop the coughing at night so I can rest.  For dry, non-productive coughs or coughs caused by a tickle in the throat, coating the throat can bring relief.

The first way to deal with a productive cough is to lay over a balance ball or on a slant board, head down.  That allows gravity to drain the mucus out of your lungs and get it out quicker.  If you are dealing with someone elderly, infirm or a child, you might want to consider very gentle percussive therapy, which achieves the same results.  The more you drain your lungs, the less likely you are to develop bronchitis and the quicker you will heal.  Spending 15 minutes in this position would greatly cut down on the coughing for a few hours.  I do this three or four times a day and always before bed, as it would allow me to fall asleep easier.

The second help has been slippery elm lozenges.  I simply mix slippery elm bark powder with a little raw honey. Add more powder until the honey can’t hold any more, then roll it into lozenge-size balls and store them in the fridge.  The slippery elm coats your throat and stops the tickles.  If you use honey infused with an herb like ginger, so much the better.  I use these when someone calls or I otherwise want to try to prevent coughs for a few minutes while I’m interacting with other people.

Finally, when I must sleep at night, Ivy leaf extract has been wonderful to stop the cough.  Bronchial Soothe syrup for the kids and pills for me will stop the coughing for 4 hours.  The only downside to this is that it only lasts four hours.  So you will wake up coughing in the night and have to take another dose, or get up and dose the kids.  However, this is the only natural cough syrup that I have tried that has consistently worked, and worked well for both me and the kids.  You can grow your own ground ivy and make tinctures or syrups, if you desire.

Disclaimer: If you order the Bronchial Soothe or other products from Iherb.com using the link above, I will receive a small percentage of your purchase in store credit. This post is in no way endorsed by Iherb.com.

How do you deal with winter coughs?

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