I have always loved using ginger in cooking and use both powered and fresh ginger. Lately I have been adding Ginger Essential Oil to my ingredients list. I love this oil and am using it in so many ways. Before I dive into the recipe, I just want to give you an idea of how Continue Reading
Cooking with Oils: Pizza Bianca
I love cooking with yeast and I am excited that I can now combine this love with my new found interest in Cooking with Oils!! I often make this recipe to accompany soup or a casserole. With the addition of a drop of Rosemary Oil to the topping the pizza is popping with flavour! What Continue Reading
Cooking With Oils: Spicy Slow Cooked Beef
It has been a windy, cold week in Sydney and we have had decent rain for the first time in a long while. So what does that make me feel like making for dinner tonight? A slow cooked casserole with rich and tasty sauce. So that’s what we will be having. One of the benefits Continue Reading
3 Tips for Staying Healthy During Winter
It is officially Winter tomorrow in Australia and we are finally getting some cold weather! Of course the colder weather brings it fair share of health problems for many people and the doctors are already telling us that this year is going to be bad for the flu. So what are you doing to stay Continue Reading
DIY Beard Balm with Essential Oils
As a user of Essential Oils you will no doubt find that some of your family and friends will question and even mock the use of oils. So the day that a family member asks if you have an oil to help them is very exciting. Now I’m not saying that Andrew mocked my new Continue Reading
The Saga of the DIY Dish Washing Liquid
When I embarked on my journey to replace all commercial cleaning products in my home I was confronted with lots of online articles, low tox books and advice from others who had walked this path before me. I mentioned in a earlier post that this was so overwhelming that I had to develop a strategy Continue Reading
Be careful of extreme diets and fads!
Before you start reading I just want to let you know that I have added some links to my doTERRA webpage at the end of this post so you can check out the the oils I mention. I imagine that some people who have been reading my blog posts, and in particular my recipes, might Continue Reading
Quick Guide for Finding DIY Ingredients Part 1.
This page contains affiliate links to products. We may receive a commission for purchases made through these links. In an earlier post I wrote about using a strategy to help you gather the ingredients you need to make DIY Low tox Household products. I have now written a few posts that mention ingredients so I Continue Reading
Cooking With Oils – ‘Mezzetti’
As I was searching in Mum’s Recipe Book for something for dinner tonight I stumbled across a recipe for ‘Mezzetti’. What is Mezzetti I hear you ask? Well I think it might actually be ‘Marzetti’ or ‘Johnny Marzetti’ which is a Midwestern Italian American pasta (I found this out through a Google search!). This makes Continue Reading
Natural Deodorant
One of the first products I made was a natural deodorant. I did a lot of reading about this one because it was something that I was very hesitant to do. Even though lots of people were raving about their natural deodorants, there are also lots of warnings out there about not trying them in Continue Reading