The Prairie Nurse

Breakfast Healthy Meals Prairie Pancakes! You can add your favorite berries! One of my families easy & favorite foods for our Sunday mornings is pancakes! You don’t need a lot of ingredients! Organic if possible is recommended.  Ingredients:  Mix the dry ingredients, then add all other items. I use a metal whisk and don’t over mix! Just enough where it looks as all the ingredients are married 🙂  In the meantime, get your favorite non-stick flat pan on medium heat for a few minutes, by this time the pancake is doing its thing and working chemistry!  The few minutes are up, poor just enough on the pan for the size…

Prairie Nurse Beef Stew by Crockpot! Easy and Cheap packed with vitamins & minerals!  Are you looking for something super easy to cook that doesn’t cost much which includes a lot healthy vitamins and minerals? Well, this Beef Stew is perfect for you! It’s one of my families favorites during fall or winter!  ______________________________________________________________________ One of my families easy & favorite foods during the busy week! Try to get organic if possible!  Ingredients:   Add the Beef Roast to the bottom of the crockpot. Then pour beef broth over the beef, add salt and pepper to your likening. Then add all ingredients to the crockpot and pick your cooking time depending…

The Dandelion Herb is a cheap healer especially in these times of high inflation and unexpected times. Its also great due to the fact that its a well known herb that grows anywhere in the northern cold climates. The Normans, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings loved this plant. In their travels they would bring the seeds with them to other countries during the voyages to other lands for survival. It’s so important to the northern hemisphere that it is considered the first plant/herb to be pollinated by our friendly bees.  Health benefits are becoming more known, the once disgraced weed to the previous generations are now becoming reminded of just how important this plant…

Strawberry Moon has past, make sure you enjoy this wonderful berry!   STRAWBERRY PARTY! Prairie Nurse Strawberry Moon Oatmeal Bars Recipe:  Good Stuff Filling:  3 Cups Strawberries (wash and dice)  3 TBSP of Local Honey (if possible) 1/2 tsp vanilla (real stuff, its the bomb)  1 TBSP lemon juice or lime  1 TBSP flour (whichever type you like)  Dry Crust/Crumble Fun:  2 Cups Oats 1/2 cup Flour (whichever type you like)  6 TBSP butter salted, that way you don’t need to add salt later, softened room temp or melted 1/4 cup brown sugar  1 egg, (break and mix) then add to batch  2 tsp cinnamon (organic non-GMO)  1/2 tsp vanilla…

Mistletoe & Folklore Mistletoe History & Plant Information  The Mistletoe is actually an evergreen plant that is well-known in Europe. The other name for it is called viscum album. The North America has another name for it besides Mistle Toe is phoradendron flavescens (that is a tongue twister).  Interesting that Mistle Toe owes the birds a great thank you for it is them whom seed them. This is because the birds eat the berries and then their fertilizer (poo) on tree branches, thus germinates into the branch/tree. According to my research the it is considered a parasite plant stealing the nutrients of the tree. The trees it likes as a…

This Midwest girl knows a thing or two about prepping for winter! Well, my 2 grandfather’s and 1 grandmother who comes from a long line a farmers who’s family immigrated from France & England. They have shared many secrets, but since it’s harvest season coming up I thought I’d share this one. I hope to share more as Prairie Nurse grows and continues it’s community.  We will call it the Old Farmer Preps, I might just start using more of these tricks of the trade to share with others since, the reliance of corporations who have bought up majority of the mom and pop businesses are not to be trusted…

The Prairie Nurse Bible Herbs The Holy Bible is filled with God’s creation of plants and herbs. This includes using oil to anoint humans and gifts of herbs brought to the birth of Jesus Christ. We are blessed that God has created plants all over the Earth to heal humans in so many ways. There are many scriptures to reference back to, but for this post I will add the verses from Exodus 30:23-25. See below. Exodus 30:23-25 Herbs and Plants Bible Verses 23 “Next, take the choicest perfumes: 500 units of solidified myrrh, and half that amount, 250 units, of sweet cinnamon, 250 units of sweet calamus, 24 and 500 units of…

Prairie Nurse Easy Cheap Healthy Winter Herbs I can’t believe the winter season and holidays will be here soon! One of my favorite herbs is Rosemary. It is also one of the easiest winter herbs to grow and find at any local grocery store even in the Midwest is Rosemary Herbs! You can use it with almost any winter meal and beverage. It’s packed with the such great health benefits too! Blessed are we to have this herb, and so hardy even if you don’t have a green thumb it’s pretty easy to keep it growing inside year round in your home. Let’s dive into the health benefits for Rosemary. …

Photo by Vaibhav Kashyap on Pexels.com   10 Healthy Steps For A Happy You Year! 1. The first step I was thinking is to get into the rhythm of the new change. The best way to get the flow going is doing smaller steps. Such as get moving, change your day up. Simple things like parking farther away from the store entrance or at work (If its safe to do so or weather permitting). 2. Do one small thing you have been procrastinating from doing and you were putting it off. This makes you feel better giving more energy to wanting to do it again and again to feel this…

The Prairie Nurse Healthy Anti-Inflammatory Meals Anti-Inflammatory Salmon Meal One of the main health issues impacting the United States and other Western world countries is the high risks of diseases due to high inflammation in the body. The main causes that could be relating to these diseases is the west’s diet. The fast food chain stores on most towns and cities is on every block or mini mall. The high rates of GMO’s and chemical preservatives making the problem much worse. I was listening to a fellow YouTuber who moved out of the USA and was surprised on how healthy he became with his new life in another country. The…