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@adora, the way to do the oven is to liberally sprinkle baking soda over the bottom of the oven and the open door and then spray with water so the baking soda is very damp. Then leave it to dry. It will bond to the charcoalized drippings and gunk on the bottom of the oven and the carbon in the charcoal will change chemically. By the time it's dry, take a damp cloth or sponge and start wiping it out. It will require far less elbow grease than you expect and you can repeat on stubborn spots. When you are done: no weird toxic chemicals.

I would never buy stock in a can or jar. Stock is so ridiculously easy and cheap to make, I could never justify buying an inferior product from an industrial source. I can get bags of chicken feet and backs from the market for $2 a bag. Beef bones from my butcher are $1.49 a pound. All bones in our chops, et al, go in a freezer bag bound for the stock pot. I make my own veggie bouillon from scratch, so I don't bother adding veggies to the stock (and we have a municipal composting program, so I don't have a guilty conscience). How hard is it to throw bones in a pot with a couple litres of water and a splash of vinegar and let it bowl for a day?

I highly recommend fermenting beets with turnip. Google lacto-fermentation, tho I usually just skip the whey. So delicious as a snack, on salads...

Also, look up beet kvass.

I shred raw beets with red cabbage and make a pink cole slaw that is delicious.

I'm definitely going to try beets as an addition to sandwiches.

Ditto what Jaime said. That clove comment had me scratching my head. But, then, I'm from a Northern area where fall foods using cloves are very common - pie spices, mulling spices, in addition to cinnamon in oatmeal based foods like oatmeal, cookies and crumbles... a little lasts a long time, but if you go to a bulk store, you can buy a TBSP for pennies.

Good headnotes are a must. Online, I skip a lot of recipes that don't have headnotes. I want to know that the banana bread recipe I'm scoping is something you get requests for and that your favourite way of eating it is toasted with butter. I want to know about how your Oma gave you this recipe when you were going through a rough patch and were seeking out budget friendly foods and how it's now one of your go to easy, fast, cheap and delicious meals. I want to know how the first time you made this ferment, you threw the jar out because you were too scared to try your experiment...

A list of ingredients is something any schmuck can do. Food is culture and culture is about story.

ISN'T!

The issues ISN'T satiety.

Gah!

Do some Google Fu on ancestral / paleo / primal diets and diabetes.

GD is a wildly controversial issue in pregnancy. The pregnant body processes sugars more and more slowly the more pregnant you become. Testing for GD is crazily imprecise (you can test under the limit one week but three weeks later test way over the limit) and because the results can't be corroborated over time, are not reliable.

The only reason why women who get labelled GD have a higher chance of getting Type 2 Diabetes later in life is because the majority of those women eat a diet high in grains and sugars (Standard American Diet is extremely heavy on processed wheat, soy and corn and woefully low on proteins and fresh vegetables) both of which make up the bulk of processed foods.

A diet that eschews grains and processed sugars and focuses on occasional fruit, lots of veg, protein and non-seed based fats (choose instead good saturated fats like butter, eggs, coconut oil, the fat from ruminants...) will reduce or eliminate all GD concerns and prevent any future lifestyle induced Type 2 diabetes.

Having a "long gone long" in our rental duplex, I just hope weeds don't grow in Arizona because this kind of lawn does NOT mean minimal upkeep. You have to weed weekly or the entire thing starts to look like the lawn of a crack house.

We add a bit of powdered sugar and the cream holds together really well.

Yeah, that first baby is being carried in a no-no position. Those carriers are bad news and totally unsafe for babies.

For big guys I always recommend less structured carriers: ring slings, mei tais and wraps.