Cheap, Organic Produce Cleaner

I like my produce to be sparkling clean, free of naughty dirt, and free of the money wasting store bought so-called “Fruit and Vegetable Wash”.

This recipe is super cheap, smells great and hardly costs anything. This is my simple solution to keep your produce sparkly and ready for consumption.

 

Here’s what you’ll need to make your very own Produce Cleaner:
1 TBS Lemon Juice
3 TBS White Vinegar
3 Cups of Water
Spray bottle (I bought mine from Target for $3)
Funnel

 

Using your funnel, measure out and pour in your 1 TBS Lemon Juice.

 

Next add your 3 TBS White Vinegar.

 

Pour in the 3 Cups of Water and attach the spray nozzle. Give it a bit of a shake.

 

Ta-da! That’s it. Now go get your produce sparkly clean. Have fun.

Sleeping Positions for the Weirdo

I rounded the corner to the kitchen, only to have my eye caught by this little weirdo.

 

How can this be comfortable?

 

Did he not notice the rug just to the right of him?

 

He seems rather content. Maybe I shouldn’t question perfection.

Hair Issues-I need your help

Dear Darling Readers,
I am about to be vulnerable and show you something I would rather not show you. In an effort to keep it real, however, I come to you begging for mercy. I need your help.
You see, I am a low-maintenance hair owner. I cut my hair once a year-maybe less. I hardly ever use a blow dryer.
But this is what I’m dealing with as I look through photos of me on a drizzly morning in San Diego.

This is embarrassing.

 

It’s like my hair has a mind of its own. What is going on here to make it frizzle, frazzle and bedazzle?

 

Apparently, it doesn’t bother me too much. But then again, I am unaware of just what Bicep’s sees through the camera lens.
Please help, dear readers. What do I do about this frazzle problem? I need you. Don’t fail me now.
Love-Rebekah

Cook-fest & bein’ real

For those of you that have been with me since the beginning when I started blogging in March of 2010, you may already know that I like to keep a clean house. If you are new around here, let me give you a couple of examples that highlight my ridiculousness. I color coordinate my closet, face the labels on all of my canned goods to the outside and have a system for almost everything.
We don’t have any kids, so it’s easy to do.
And thankfully, I married a man that is just as anal retentive as I am.
But, every once in awhile, I get a wild hair and get “my dirty” on.

This is how Cookfest began. I decided today would be the day to experiment, use up my garden’s harvest from the past couple of days, try out new recipes, and freeze a bunch of goodies for upcoming visitors.

 

The peels multiplied as I came up with more and more ideas to concoct.

 

I lined up my projects, pulling out ingredients to make sure I had everything on hand. I didn’t. But that’s never stopped me before. I decided to avoid the grocery store and improvise per usual.

 

For dinner, I wanted to try out a recipe for roasted sweet potato, carrots, onions and garbanzo beans.

 

There was some naughty cross-breeding going on in my garden which produced 2 mystery squash. Add those to a small pumpkin and I decided they would be the basis for my “Pumpkin-ish Pies”.

 

Zucchini Chocolate muffins were next on the list.

 

And my craving for Butternut Squash Soup was satisfied with the few small butternut found in the garden.

 

Pureed Squash was everywhere, pots were boiling over on the stove, dishes were piling up…

 

…every mixing bowl, spatula, measuring cup and appliance was being utilized, covered in some mixture of squash, vegie peel, cinnamon and flour concoction.

 

And my normal sidekick-Biceps-was rehearsing for a show. What’s a girl to do but keep cooking, keep piling up the dishes and wipe down the cabinets covered in bubbly squash juice from time to time.

 

Cookfest started at approximately 2pm and lasted until 8pm. It produced 2 pounds of meatloaf, two casserole dishes of roasted vegies, two pumpkin-ish pies, 4 dozen zucchini muffins, butternut squash soup, mystery squash puree for future soups or lasagna, one extremely dirty kitchen and one tuckered out but delighted Rebekah.
Cookfest was a messy success.