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Comment on Raising boys – 10 things they don’t tell you by Caren

Caren — Fri, 25 May 2012 19:26:39 +0000

Being the middle daughter of a three daughter family, I too had a few Jaw-dropping-are-you-serious moments when raising my boys! I wish I’d learned about #9 a little sooner. I think I could have handled it a lot better. Unfortunately for son number one I was too young and too inexperienced to do a great job. Son number two benefited from my time in the trenches. One thing that I never failed to do, and still do, is to tell each of my three kids, every time we talk, how much I love them. And that I learned from my own wise, loving dad. Thanks Crissi for this very inspirational list. You have two great kids resulting from wise and loving parenting.

Comment on The dreaded Family Meeting by str4y

str4y — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 08:48:23 +0000

Awww! I’m glad that it went well! In my head, however, there was some sort of wacky hi-jinks at the end, everyone laughed and said ‘Oh, mom!’ and then, the credits rolled. ^_^

Comment on The dreaded Family Meeting by Deanna Nunes Corbin

Deanna Nunes Corbin — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 15:08:27 +0000

That’s great Crissi, I have always cringed at the though of a family meeting and so have never tried it. Maybe you can come and be my mediator and help us get started. I’m not as organized as you. Glad it all went well

Comment on Paleo Coconut Pancakes by winecountrymom

winecountrymom — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 05:03:03 +0000

Yes! Send them to me, I’d love to try out some new recipes!

Comment on Paleo Coconut Pancakes by winecountrymom

winecountrymom — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 04:46:27 +0000

Good to know about the coconut milk. I bet that would make a difference. I’ve been mostly grain free for months now. I go through the occasionally bouts of boredom with it, but then I find recipes like this that shakes things up. I’ll definitely try it with better coconut milk. And I like your idea of adding blueberries!

Comment on Paleo Coconut Pancakes by Jeannine

Jeannine — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 04:39:38 +0000

oh…and check your coconut milk. The packaging above says coconut milk beverage. Real coconut milk is very thick. You have to be careful with which kind you buy. If you get the wrong one, you have watery coconut milk, which will cause the batter to be too runny. Also if you are using light coconut milk it will be runny. Full fat is best.

Comment on Paleo Coconut Pancakes by Jeannine

Jeannine — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 04:34:52 +0000

We have made these several times and we all thought they were fabulous!! In fact I just pulled out the recipe to make them again tomorrow. We have been grain free for awhile now though…it is definitely an “acquired” taste. I haven’t made this sauce yet, we add blueberries to the cooking pancakes (before you flip them) and then use some 100% maple syrup on top. Yummy!! I have several other grain free pancake recipes if you are interested in trying some others. Let me know and I will send them to you.

Comment on Brew your own Kombucha by Justin

Justin — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:30:22 +0000

I have two jars that I’m using to grow my own SCOBYs. (scobies?) One is a quart-sized glass jar which has one cup of sweet tea and a bottle of GT’s oiinrgal kombucha as a starter. The other is a gallon-sized glass jar with a cup of sweet tea and a bottle of High Country oiinrgal Kombucha as a starter.I really like the taste of GT’s kombucha. I’ve never heard of High Country kombucha before, and to be honest I didn’t like the taste. It was a bit too sweet and didn’t have any carbonation on the other hand I love the fizz and vinegary flavor of the GT. The bottle of GT kombucha not only had the flavor and fizz that I like, it also had a thin mini SCOBY floating just off the bottom. I was thinking this would yield better results the High Country had no SCOBY floating, just some strands of what looked like dead yeast at the bottom.To my surprise, four days after starting my brew, the High Country in the gallon jar is growing a healthy thick SCOBY (covering the entire surface), while the quart jar with the GT starter doesn’t look like it’s doing much. The thin mini-SCOBY that was on the bottom is floating on top and is a little bubbly but hasn’t grown in size, however there are some white tentacles’ growing off the bottom. Meanwhile the other one is getting thick and looks healthy, covering the entire surface of the liquid. What could explain this? Do I just need to be more patient with the smaller jar?

Comment on Brew your own Kombucha by Kemal

Kemal — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 00:22:33 +0000

This is FANTASTIC! Thank you for this tutorial! I have been wnaitng to make water kefir, thinking that it would wean my husband off of sodas, but have had the hardest time trying to find water kefir grains . . . when I first heard about kombucha I thought it would be almost as hard to get a scoby (plus the whole mushroom/fungus thing threw me off. I don’t know why since I was willing and able to look for kefir grains! Now that I’ve heard more and more about kombucha I’ve been wnaitng to try it (and planned on bringing a bottle or two of GT’s with me to the hospital for my upcoming birth!) and will definitely have to pick up a bottle of the plain to get this going!Funny thing is that we’re currently living at my in-laws for a few months. She already thinks I’m a crazy food nut, what with my two sourdough starters and my constantly leaving grains and flours out to soak overnight and my steaming kale to make green smoothies (she and I have different views on foods, to say the least) she will think I’ve gone off my rocker when I ask her to not disturb my bottle of kombucha that I want to leave out for the next three weeks! My mother-in-law might just not understand my need to mother the mother.Maybe I’ll have to save this post for when we move into our own place again . . . we’ll see!Thank you again!Best,SarahPS I am so making ginger juice. I hate garlic presses for garlic, I’d much rather use a knife, but for ginger juice? I may have found a new favorite kitchen tool.Sarah

Comment on The wicked stepmother, part 2 by Mike

Mike — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 23:57:42 +0000

Dear Wine Country Mom,

Thank you so much for writing this. My mother forwarded your blog to me. I have a situation very similar to this. My son will simply not talk to my girlfriend. We have been together for over 2 years and we have lived together for a year. I really have had to impose a rule that he just says hello and goodbye when he comes on the days that I have him. It is really frustrating and I believe it is really hurtful to my girlfriend. I feel trapped in the middle. It is really threatening our relationship which is pretty darn good. I sent this along to her in hopes that it provides her some sort of comfort, maybe even hope.

Thanks again.