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Just thought I'd share what I just found out about xantham gum: = Despite its rather alien-sounding name, xanthan gum is as natural as any other fermented corn sugar polysaccharide you can name. Corn syrup, anyone? Seriously, xanthan gum derives its name from the strain of bacteria used during...

From the IRS: For most taxpayers, the 2011 tax filing season starts on schedule. However, tax law changes enacted by Congress and signed by President Obama in December mean some people need to wait until med-to late February to file their tax returns to give the IRS time to reprogram its...

Thanks - have several copied/pasted into a word doc, and will be playing with it! I'll let you know the results :D

Welcome - and I'd LOVE to, but see, well, the ex kept all the camping gear :/ and my current financial status doesn't allow for me to buy more to replace it - YET.

I'm personally going to try them this year for tomatoes! I saw an episode of Yard Crashers (DIY/HGTV) where the surprise building material was old tires. One of the families stacked either 2 or 3 high, strung something in the hole of that top-most one (seat), put another two on either side of...

Thanks, ladies - hopefully others will chime in, too!

Some ladies from our church are going to do a 21-day Daniel Fast . While eating this way, it's basically a modified vegan diet - no sweeteners (other than fruits/juices), nothing to drink but water, no dairy of any sort, no meat, only unleavened bread - pretty much fruits, veggies, beans, and...

Anybody have a recipe for homemade ranch dressing? I tried searching for one on here, but didn't find it. I'm thinking it'll be something good to do with my kefir ;) And ranch is good with EVERYTHING!

me likey! But, how many pints/quarts can be done in it? I'd only want it if I could use it for pressure canning also (don't have one of those - yet).

The jar on day 2 of fermentation (I wanna try the fizzy :) ) is definitely separating into curds/whey just sitting on the counter! So I'm betting when I strain it this time, I won't have a problem with getting my ke-cheese!

*excuse for getting some chickens - I want several of those bags in PINK!*

LL - it's just something you go scrounging for :idunno I heard about it in doing research for the aforementioned dream bale-cob cottage. Typically, people in the natural building realm want to do as much as possible with all natural building materials, but stone (for foundation) is not readily...

1st set of scrubs has to be store-bought - can that include from Goodwill? I know ours (smallish city) has a circular rack of just scrubs that have been donated. That would save a few $... So glad it's working out!

Is there any more to straining it than putting it through, say, a coffee filter?I've just been fermenting once, in a tightly lidded jar (it makes a nice "pop" when I open it - do I need to NOT have it tight?). I'm definitely going to try the 2nd ferment idea. But I tried straining it after 1st...

Pat - go scrounging for "urbanite!" (fancy name for re-claimed concrete) You can find it at demo sites, and just look around - there is a HUGE lot of it a couple miles from my house - whoever the property owner is there uses it as a dump site for stuff like that, and there's literally acres of...

Interesting - but what I'd REALLY like to know is why we say "The Cat" won if neither of the 2 players did :hu

Thanks y'all - I'll let ya know how it goes once I actually find the time to sit down and do it. (Have to "help" finish my son's solar system project first!)

http://gastateparks.org/ElijahClark/ Elijah Clark State Park on the border of GA and SC, on Clark's Hill Lake (or Lake Thurmond, depending on who you ask ;) ) which is ginormous. I personally have not RV camped in there, but have tent camped there several times, (believe it's site #13 that's my...

Good luck!

:ya :weee :clap And just to make sure I'm clear on this - once I take the grains out, does my kefir now need to be refrigerated if I'm not going to drink it immediately or thicken it for sour cream/cream cheese? How does that work?