Sewing, Embroidery, Pets

My comfort cat Mrytle was not feeling well. i thought she was dying, she had stopped eating and even drinking. I wanted to comfort her in her last days. My furry friend  got pampered. Then I treated her to home made sour cream and yogurt. She ate three spoonfuls!


This was back in July. now it's Jan 2019 and she is still helping me with my sewing, embroidery, and etc. Thankful

Fun Foods From the Frontier

Idaho Expedition Sourdough cooked in the Pizza Oven

Fun trimmings for Thanksgiving Dinner by my wonderful children.

No Knead Bread wood Cookstove version

Trending this week on Pinterest is photos and blog posts  on a no knead bread. Simple. Easy. Delicious.

Check on Simply So Good for her  Crusty Bread  recipe and cookware choice. I used an old orange cast iron dutch oven. Then for a sour dough version and all the explanation on why  to do it this way see Jenny's blog Nourished Kitchen for her No-Knead Sourdough Bread recipe.

Three cups of flour, 1/4 cup sourdough starter, 1 3/4 tsp. salt, 1 tsp. yeast, 1 1/2 cup water. 

I cook on a Stanley wood Cookstove and love the old time scent it gives the bread.

Preheat the oven  and cookware pot you will put the bread in to 450 F.

Time to close the hob and keep the oven from getting any hotter. I will also close the Spinwheel.

I should ideally close the spinwheel and the hob when the temperature is within 25 degrees of cooking temp. Since this bread is cooked at really high temp I wasn't as watchful. If I need to add more wood to the fire I will not give it any extra air to catch so it will burn slower. I want a hot oven not an overheated oven.

This is what it looks like after 30 minutes at 450 f. Now I'm removing the lid for the next 10-15 minutes to brown it and let the rest of the steam off. 

Hot out of the oven. A crusty airy bread to soak up plenty of fresh butter or hot soup.

By the way, the metal spring-looking handle in the background on the cook stove top is a *Hob Nob*. It's used to turn the hob and direct the flames around the oven or to slow the burn. Now that the bread is done  we can sample some and stand around the stove on this our normal northwest cool spring day and *hobnob*.

How about some cheese with that crusty bread?

On our first run through this recipe I started it at one o'clock. By six o'clock I could not avoid the temptation of baking some of the dough. I had doubled the batch , so why not? I scooped out half , baked it up and we had it with our Hot German Sausage soup. I will just let your mouth water on that thought.

Florence Nightingale 1860

" Diseases are not individuals arranged in classes, like cats and dogs, but conditions, growing out of one another. 

"  Is it not living in a continual mistake to look upon diseases as we do now, as seperate entities, which must exist, like cats and dogs, instead of looking upon them as conditions, like dirty and clean condition, and just as much under our control; or rather as the reactions of kindly nature, against the conditions in which we have placed ourselves?

"  I was brought up to believe that smallpox for instance, was a thing of which there was once a first specimen in the world, which went on propagating itself, in a perpetual chain of descent, just as there was a first dog, or first pair of dogs, and that smallpox would not begin itself, any more than a new dog would begin without there having been a parent dog.

"  Since then I have seen with my own eyes and smelled with my own nose smallpox growing up in first specimens, either in closed rooms or in overcrowded wards, where it could not by any possibility have been "caught", but must have begun.

"  I have seen diseases begin, grow up, and turn into one another. Now , dogs do not turn into cats.

"  I have seen, for instance, with a little overcrowding, continued fever grow up; and with a little more, typhoid fever; and with a little more, typhus, and all in the same ward or hut.

"  Would it not be far better, truer, and more practical, if we looked upon disease in this light (for diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun-substantives):

     -True nursing ignores infection, except to prevent it. 

Cleanliness and fresh air from open windows, with          

unremitting attention to the patient, are the only defense

 a true nurse either asks or needs.

     -Wise and humane management of the patient is the

 best safegard against infection. The greater part of       

 nursing consists of preserving cleanliness.

     -The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of

 weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule       

 in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases;

 there are specific disease conditions."

Something Worth Thinking About

Autism or Vaccine Encephalopathy ?

http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2011/04/im-are-from-government-and-i-am-here-to.html

Known contamination of vaccine for rotavirus

"For those of you who are not familiar with this virus, the rotavirus is the leading cause of diarrhea in infants, not only in the United States but in the developing world. A number of trials have shown that this vaccine has been useful in reducing the death rate from rotaviral infection in the developing world, and that’s the key." See Dr. Mercola's article here.

Please take a few minutes to read and understand the entire issue before subjecting your child to possibly a more deadly disease than diarrhea can be.

Be wise, ask your doctor for the package insert and read all the indications and contra-indications before you vaccinate.