NO POO: Hair cleaning, Degreasing, Deodorizing.

Vinegar

Baking Soda

Hair Care

Gross.(not really though)

I have been washing my hair for that last 2 years give or take a few months, with Baking Soda and Apple Cider Vinegar.

I have tried this method off and on a few times, with long hair and short hair. Works better for me with short hair, as it fried my long hair but that could have been the way I was doing it.

The first few times I kept a container of dry baking soda in the shower just dumped a little in my hand and added enough water to make a paste. Then tried to evenly distribute it through my long locks. That fried my hair, I gave up after a few try's.

Then I cut my hair and donated my pony tail to Locks of Love for wigs for children, it made my heart feel good.

Well then I tried it again with short hair same process, made a mess of my hair again. Gave up again! F-this noise I tells ya.

So I did some more research, and I can't remember if I followed someone elses idea or plans or if I just made them up myself, in this case pffff, I made them up myself, "those who dout me........" add your own profanities, expletives this is family friendly... Well I try. It's a quote from the HBO show Deadwood, you get my drift, It has a lot of swearing in it, and crude comments, it is fantastic.

So we found some glass jars with cork style lids at a yard sale or thrift store or someplace like that.

The tools and ingredients - water

 For the baking soda I take a little more than a handful of baking soda load that into jar then add water to fill the jar put the lid on shake it up.

Then for the Apple Cider Vinegar, I fill up the jar 1/3 up then top off with water, put the lid on, shake.

The How To, NoPoo

This method has been working very well for me the last two years. Now your supposed to be able to ween yourself off of this stuff, when your hair starts "naturally" cleaning itself, I have never gotten to that point my hair gets pretty gross if I don't wash it for more then two days. I thinks its all a load of what? you may ask your self, BULL, ya maybe if you don't do to much with your day and sit around in an extremely Air conditioned building then you might be able to get away with weening your self off. Me? no I'm in the heat and humidity too much, just doesn't seem plausible.

Final product with its relatives

Now these two containers last me about 3 showers a piece, I don't use the Vinegar wash every time, just like you don't use conditioner every time, unless you do then go for it. 

Hot Chocolate Part Duex

So, I wrote a post with a recipe for Hot Chocolate last year, but I love the stuff too much, who can blame me right?! RIGHT!

So I am Lactose intolerant, that store bought junk just messes me up big time. So last year was an experiment in the making of hot chocolate. I just wanted to control what was in it. There still is a lot of sugar in it, which I might try experimenting with this year or next what ever comes first. But alas there is only skim milk powder where I live. Then I got adventurous, I looked on the internet went to these weird sites about alternative foods not found in your local grocery store cause they are the devil, am I right? YA! So doing some incognito web surfing(chrome has a setting for that) and I found Rice Milk powder, Soy Milk powder, other Milk Powders, Cocaine Powders....no, no I didn't, and last but not least Coconut Milk Powders, YEAH! BITCH!

So I go down to the local Health food Shop, Jo Annes, sneek aboot look in the baking section there, bammo there it is White Gold. So I takes that back home.  Mix up a little chocolove slam that back and then life was born on the 9th day.

So in all seriousness back to the recipe. AND pictures this time.

1 3/4cp  -  Cocoa Powder
1 3/4cp  -  Powdered Sugar
2 cp       -  Coconut Milk Power
1 tbsp     -  Corn Starch
1 tsp       -  Salt

All the Ingredients in the bowl, sifted but not mixed.

Everything all mixed up.

Sitting Pretty.

Looks like something out of a 70's magazine, But better.

Peace, I'm off to work.

Can...ning,

Canning of the tomatoes continued into Monday, we canned 6 jars of salsa, with peppers and tomatoes from   our Winter Friend. It was supposed to be spicy but it did not turn out like that, I am fairly intolerant to spicy, I sweat go red and cry. I love it but, it does not like me. 

We used this recipe Spicy Tomato Salsa, maybe all the peppers weren't spicy, but the piece of pepper that I tried that seemed to be the same as the others felt like burning. It ended up a bit sweet, possibly from the red wine vinegar but its better than last years batch. Found a trick, after you dice up your toms put them in a colander and let them drain into a bowl, for about an hour or till you clean up everything, that way you won't have as much water to combat with when you boil down your salsa. re-measure your tomatoes and add more to bring up to the recipes amount. That trick gave us a slightly thicker salsa this year than last. We may just have to add some Sriracha sauce when we eat some salsa.

We also tried out canning Pickled Beans, pickling is a lot faster than anything to do with tomatoes so that was more fun, less clean up.

Peace,
Have a good night.

You say tomato I say .....tomato

Well got to texting our Winter Friend, she was our neighbour 2 years ago, and a wicked neighbour she was and still is. We or I coined that term last night "Winter Friend" because in the summer we typicly don't see her, because both parties get pretty busy.

So to get back to the story. She got to texting both of us on Friday, and we found out she can't keep up with harvesting her toms and beans and everything, so we went over on Sunday, filled half a wheel barrow with tomatoes, that is like her 4th wheel barrow of tomatoes. When we got home I instantly got to peeling coring and canning the toms into Canned Crushed Tomatoes. We still have a grocery bag full, and probably do some more, and we also got 2 or 3 grocery bags of green and wax beans so I was going to take a stab at pickled beans.

There they are in all their glory

Peeled, 4 cups of just tomato skin.

6Qt pot filled right to the brim, boiled for 5 minutes.

doled out.

10 500ml Jars.