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Okay, I’m going to try making whey one more time. I really wanted to take advantage of the lacto-fermented veggie recipes in NT, but just haven’t been able to get the whey thing working. I picked up my raw milk order today and am separating milk and cream on the counter right now. Along with my order I got some pasture butter and clarified that so my allergic daughter can benefit without breaking out. I got a last minute call from the farmer that she couldn’t make any creme fraiche for me this week, so we put that off a couple weeks.

Last night I had an attack of heartburn, my first in the month of February. It occurred to me: I hadn’t had any fermented foods at all yesterday. I got to the kitchen and poured myself about a half cup of my son’s eggnog and felt immediately better. My stomach didn’t act up again all night. I must remember this!

We had leftover cherry muffins for breakfast, and cleaned out the fridge for lunch. I ran out to the grocery store and on my way home got a call from hubby: too many sickies in the house and we’d be skipping church. Oh, and could I pick up dinner on the way home? He had a Taco Bell craving. Blech. The kids were ecstatic. I made some Coconut Chicken soup that I sipped while I messed around in the kitchen with various projects I’m working on. I had some flour soaking that I didn’t use this morning for pancakes (no eggs), so I put together some blueberry muffins for tomorrow’s breakfast and put the rest of the flour in a Mason jar in the fridge. Those pancakes can wait.

I head back from the egg farmer, his chickens aren’t pastured, and are fed a mash of corn and soy, just what we don’t need. Still looking! I haven’t been on the scale, but I put on a dress today that was too tight at the beginning of the month and it almost fit. Hm. Perhaps I’ll step on the scale tomorrow.