Katiebird's Garden & Wildcraft

I like plain Cheerios and apparently my body does too, as in hardly any insulin needed!  For some reason, the 25-35 grams of carbs (sometimes I eat more than the 1 svg or I drink the milk) that are ingested on a Cheerio day reacts like I only ate maybe 10-15.  I have finally realized that and only bolus 3/4s of what is usually required for that amount of carbs.  Makes me feel like the ol' pancreas is working sometimes... Anybody else have a food that acts back-a$$ backwards for insulin needs? My new website and blog are coming along swimmingly!  I'm going to work on it a lot this weekend-though it going to be in the 70s might make that hard!

I've decided to change my blog name, as I find myself talking more about food and gardening than JUST diabetes.  I wanted to have more of a concrete theme that had room for a bigger variety of stories.  I obviously will never be un-diabetic, so it will rear it's ugly head in more than one story I'm sure.  I'm looking to redesign my blog too, so I can better organize it and sort my posts.  Thanks for still following you 6 people, and hopefully there will be more soon!

I planted onion seeds on our anniversary in late February.  I'm so romantic.  Never knew that onions unfolded and the seed ends up in the air... They are now about 3 inches tall.  My plan is to grow them and transplant into the new raised beds I am creating this year.  They probably will get leggy, but I'll plant some seeds also to get a staggered harvest and see how they grow.    I also built a little green house out of "culled" (love that term) scraps from the Home Despot, leftover plastic window insulation and some plumbing pieces.  It's a bit wonky, but don't hate on creativity! Chamomile has also chosen to make an appearance.  I'm going to plant as much as I can in my garden, as last year I didn't and only was able to harvest about 1/2 c. of the flowers.  You can't make much tea or hair rinse out of that! Tiny little buggers.     My dear hubby has also gotten on the band-wagon and collected some ran...

A week ago, it was cold here in MN, so the soup would have been perfect.  Now its forcasted to be near 70 degrees at least a couple days this week, so hot soup just doesn't seem right.  The rest is going in the freezer! Recipe HERE

This is what was created out of the leftover roast chicken.  I used a 9" deepdish pie plate and only used puff pastry on the top.  I have an aversion to soggy bottoms.  We had another couple over and between the 4 of us-actually the guys ate 3/4s of it-it disappeared!  There were plenty of South Park pot pie quotes laughed at :)  

My dear husband has "suggested" that I need to use up my frozen food supply because it drives him crazy that there are bags of "things" taking up "valuable space."  One in particular-the frozen chicken.  So this week is the week of the chicken.  5 lbs. actually is a lot of chicken once you scrape it all off.  I made a delicious lemon, garlic and butter roasted chicken with root vegetables.  I stuffed lemon slices and smashed garlic under the skin and smooshed butter over the whole thing like Julia Child, then stuffed it with lemons, onions and carrots.  It was gorgeous.  And I forgot to take a  picture.  Anyhoo, we have a lot left.  The rest of the week's creations will be: 1.  Chicken Pot Pie.  I need to master homemade puff pastry. 2.  Chicken Noodle Soup.  From this amazing roast bird came 2 cups of amazing broth.  It's drinkable. 3.  The usual chicken sandwiches that I'll be eating, as ...

I've been long gone...but I'll list the reasons why! 1.  Got married! 2.  Fiance-then-husband herniated a disc (uh, pre-and during wedding, so we have quite the memories and stories already!) and was bed-ridden for almost 3 mos. 3.  Been plain busy at work... I'm hoping to re-vamp the blog, as my interests that I'm obsessing over are veering, though diabetes is always in the forefront! I'll be organizing-posting soon!  New things to chat about are:  my over-exuberant spring garden plans, more self-reliance learning, kids and chickens.  Not necessarily in that order :)  So, for my couple followers out there, stay tuned!