Primal Eating: Homemade Spaghetti Sauce

What makes this spaghetti sauce even better is that the majority of the ingredients are from the garden!  My husband found this recipe over a year ago and it continues to be our favorite.

Cut the tops off several tomatoes.  Drizzle with olive oil, salt, and pepper.  Roast in the oven on 350 for 2 hours. 

Put fresh basil and garlic in the food processor.  Add the roasted tomatoes.  Blend together

In a large pot saute a chopped onion with olive oil.  Once the onions are soft, add the tomato mixture.  Simmer on low for about 20 minutes.  Your house will smell amazing and you can't beat the taste with any store bought brand!

You can store this in the refrigerator up to a week or the freezer for a couple of months.  If you want it to last longer, you can go through the canning process.  In our house, food doesn't last that long. :-)

Outdoor Fun: Ice Blocks

My kids love being outdoors and I feel that it is so important to get plenty of sunshine.  With these hot summer days, I am always looking for new, cooler ideas for things we can do outside.  They love swimming, playing in the sprinkler, going down the slip and slide, and getting each other wet with water guns.  When I came across the idea of Ice Blocks from, www.stayathomemom.blogspot.com, I knew it would be an instant hit.  All you need is water, any type or size of tray to freeze the water in, and kool aid or food coloring.  I put the water in small, disposable baking tins, but let the kids add the kool aid.  They thought it was so cool!  For one, they have never seen kool aid before because I try to avoid all things with dye, and two, they loved watching the water change colors.  We put them in the freezer overnight and it was the first thing they asked about in the morning.  (I also added small figurine animals in them so they had fun trying to get the animal out.)

 There are endless possibilities with these.  First the kids tried stacking them.

 Mason thought it was fun to pick up an ice block, throw it, and watch it break into different size pieces. 

Haiden enjoyed watching it melt and turning the concrete a different color.  You could also give them "tools" to break the cubes, use this time to identify colors with the younger ones, or count the blocks.

If you try these, let me know how much your kids enjoyed them!

Welcome to our new blog!

With our family growing, Haiden doing so well, and all the new things we are doing around here, I thought it was time for a new/updated blog! 
Here you will find Haiden's story of recovery along with helpful biomedical resources, some fun play at home and play based learning ideas, resources and our own experience as we try to put Peaceful Parenting into practice, yummy primal based recipes, and all the ins and outs of our day to day life as a family of almost 6!