Milk baths are some of the most marked-up products ever. Burt’s Bees is $16. This is exactly like Burt’s Bees – just milk and fragrance.

If you use nonfat milk, your skin won’t be oily afterward. But if you use wholefat milk, you will get the natural moisturizing power. It’s all up to your skin type.

If you can’t find buttermilk powder at the regular grocery store, you can definitely find it at a health food store. Whole Foods carries Bob’s Red Mill products, and they have powdered buttermilk.

People with lactose intolerance or milk allergies shouldn’t try this recipe. If mixture is too oily, try 1/4 cup of Natrasorb to soak up the oil.

[Idea modified from theperfumereport.com]

• Fall Salad
• New England Clam Chowder
  (for a vegetarian version see Vegetarian New England “Clam” Chowder. Or use the original recipe and just substitute the clams with the arame from the vegetarian recipe and add oyster mushrooms for the texture.)
• Homemade Quick Rolls with Homemade All-Purpose Herbed Butter
• Grandma’s Apple and Honey Muffins* with Homemade Whipped Honey Butter

*The muffin recipe is from a great book we picked up at the library, The Beeman:


It’s an easy and healthy recipe with only flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, whole wheat or bran cereal flakes (we use whole grain with flax), apple, raisins, egg or Ener G Foods Egg Replacer, milk, oil & honey.

syna went strawberry picking yesterday and wanted to make strawberry pie. so, we came up with this quick and tasty version.

individual graham cracker crusts

sliced strawberries
some sugar
-mix and let sit

heavy whipping cream
some sugar
some vanilla
-whip together

tomorrow we’re going to try this Quick Strawberry Jam Recipe. no sterilizing, small batch, quick and simple to make.