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Food from your hearth, made for your soul!

The Hearth and Soul Hop is born as a continuation and expansion of the Two for Tuesday Recipe Blog Hop and we hope you will join with us in sharing our beliefs that food not only nourishes our bodies, but our souls! To really get clear on what we are talking about, please check out our nifty new mission statement! Hearth and Soul Mission: Food from your hearth, to feed your soul. Food that follows your intuition. Preparing food from scratch to nourish your family…body, mind AND soul! Food made with your own hands…infused with energy and passion and intent. Real food made by real people to feed real families (big and small, in blood or spirit). Ingredients from scratch, be it something grown in your garden or raised on your land…food foraged in the field or woods…food from local farms, farmers, or farmers markets…or even ingredients chosen by you from your local market that will be turned into something that feeds your soul. Tapping the food memory that each of us has stored inside; letting it guide and influence our own time in the kitchen. We hope to embrace not only the “expected” areas of real food, but also those who want to incorporate healthier choices without sacrificing their love of food…how it tastes, the memories it conjures up, the comfort it brings. Yes, we’re trying to steer clear of packaged, processed, and boxed foods in favor of real foods….without absolutely excluding the sometimes frowned upon white sugar or flour (because the body craves what it craves…and sometimes things just don’t taste the same when you replace these). Making conscious choices and being present in the now with what your body needs…and taking steps towards exploring and enjoying healthier choices. If you take the time to listen, your body will tell you what it needs. The warm comfort of the home hearth…stories, anecdotes, lessons, adventures, journeys, recipes, meals, beverages…we want to share the “why” of how food feeds more than just our bodies…how it also feeds our souls. After all, aren’t these the essential ingredients in defining real food? Please share links from your Hearth ‘n Soul with us each week. Rules for linking: Please use your best blog hop etiquette when linking. The rules are in place to help everyone have the best blog hop experience possible. Because of the overwhelming success of Two for Tuesday, a few changes have been made in the rules, so we kindly ask you to please review them so we can all be on the same page. If you are new to a blog carnival, or blog hop, it is very easy to learn how to join in the fun! Simply go to the blog post for that carnival and scroll down to the bottom where you will see a small box that will say, Your Next or Your link here. When you click on that link, you will be asked to enter the URL of your recipe or article. Please link to your article only and not directly to your blog front page. The linky may ask you to upload a photograph from your computer, then you click next and leave a comment on the blog hosts post. You will also be asked to place a link back to the blog host, which means, adding in the URL of the blog hop post which you can copy from your browser address bar and insert at the bottom of your post. You could also choose to place a blog badge into your post, which was explained below. Easy peasy lemon squeezy! *A host will visit each link and read and comment on your post before the next linky period opens, because this is personal for us…we want you to know that we appreciate that you’ve taken the time to create a post, add a link back to the hop, and add your link! We’ll be sure to acknowledge this with a comment and a tweet on Twitter (using hashtag #hsoul). -One link per week, please -Must include a link back to one/any of the host sites (through worded link or badge) in individual post, not on sidebar…although we love having links on your page, as well (this benefits all of us). You will be sent a gentle reminder if no link is added to your post, we understand that sometimes people forget…but if it becomes a regular occurrence, (even though we don’t like to do it) your post may be removed. It’s just not fair to those who do take the time and show the grace to link back. -Try to link a post that you think fits into the mission. You don’t have to link up every week…link up when you can. We welcome posts that are shared in other events. If you have an older, archived post that you want to add, we welcome that…as long as you go in and add a link back to Hearth ‘n Soul -Linky will stay open from 10 pm Monday to 11:59 pm Wednesday (Eastern time). Let the fun begin!!! Thanks! Alex@amoderatelife, Christy@frugalcrunchychristy, Butterpoweredbike@Hunger and Thirst and Jason@alternative health and nutrition. More Information for Those New to Blog Hopping! …You veterans can just scroll down to the linky! What is a blog hop you ask? Well, you can find out by visiting my Hearth and Soul Blog Hop page for a complete explanation, but basically, it is a way to link together various foodie love blogs so that you can enjoy many new healthy food recipes that you might not have been exposed to before! Right now, A Moderate Life, Hunger and Thirst, Alternative Health and Nutrition and Frugalcrunchychristy are teaming up to share the Blog Hop with their audiences. If you haven’t been to their blogs before, then you certainly should, as they are tremendously creative cooks who are passionate about health and food and all are taking steps to cook more wholesome and soul nourishing food. This means you get exposure to five blog audiences for the price of one link, so we should really rename this 5 for Tuesday! So, please link a recipe using the linky tools below and your link will be shared over 5 different blogs and with 5 different blog audiences. Recipes should include healthy ingredients and can be old or new recipes or posts. Articles on real food, slow food, foraging, herbal remedies, local food, sustainable food, organics, gardening or any healthy eating information is also welcome. Each participant’s link will be tweeted and given a high quality feedback comment to increase your exposure. Please use your best blog carnival etiquette and use the URL to your post, and not your blog landing page. Please post a link in your article back to the blog you are using the Linky Tools with and if you want to, please share the hearth and soul hop badge listed below to promote the Blog Hop. We would ask you to subscribe to our feed and Tweet the Blog Hop as well if you would be so kind! Here is the Hearth ‘n Soul Blog Badge for A Moderate Life! I have listed both WordPress and Blogger versions in my sidebar for your convenience, so simply copy and paste the code into your blog’s HTML editor to share with your readers. I hope you enjoy this blog hop and see an increase in your traffic as well. Please visit my other hearth felt blog community sites for tons more wholesome and passionate food inspiration! This week I had a serious craving for both Italian and Mexican food and so I threw the two at each other and created a lovely MexItalian Pasta Bake! You can also check out some of my previous soul nourishing recipes on my Featured Blog Hop Recipe Page and if you missed earlier Blog Hops you can also check them out! Bon Appetit!

1. MexItalian Pasta Bake at a Moderate Life! 2. Minute Mayonnaise 3. Marinated Flank Steak with Mushroom Cream Sauce 4. Homemade Mocha cake 5. Honeybear Brownies 6. Cook w/ Wild Spruce Fir or Pine Tips 7. “Shunning” Whole Foods, (and you don’t have to be 8. Potpie Empanadas 9. Semi Whole Wheat Pizza 10. Parsley, it’s back! 11. Red Beans N Rice 12. SkyFlake Baked Basa 13. Home Made Fried Ravioli 14. Slow Cooker Pot Roast 15. BLT Hummus Wraps 16. Dandelion Fritters 17. Big and Crispy Onion Rings with Zesty Sauce 18. Savory Stuffed Acorn Squash at Create With Joy 19. Cheesy Grass-Fed Meatloaf 20. Swiss Roll. . . Step by step 21. Crepes with Strawberry Compote 22. Cuban Sweet Potato Salad 23. Mango Sorbet 24. Chickpea Cannelloni @ {Rosy ~ Posy} 25. 2 Almond Cookie Recips 26. Roasted Roma Tomato Lasagna 27. Breakthrough Celiac Video 28. Fried Apple Rounds 29. Sloppy Joe Casserole 30. Grain-Free Tuesdays Bloghop 31. Mashed Garnet Yams With Bacon, Chipotle and Pecans 32. Indian Mava Minicakes With Pistachios & Saffron 33. Lentil Soup with Homemade bread 34. Butternut and Quince Chutney 35. Pancakes for Shrove Tuesday 36. Simple Tuna Salad 37. chicken fiesta casserole 38. Mary w/Chicken Tikka Masala 39. Salmon Orzo Salad 40. 9 Pancake & Waffle Recipes 41. Gluten Free Pop Tarts 42. Cannelloni, Barcelona Style 43. Ranch Potato Cubes 44. Of Such is the Kingdom (Food for the Week) 45. Orzo with Fontina Cheese and Peas 46. Asian Vegetables In Garlic Sauce 47. Cheeseburger Pizza 48. Baked Oatmeal 49. Scalloped Potatoes 50. Easiest Ever Butternut Chili @ Analytical Mom 51. Spaghetti and Meatballs @ Sense of Home 52. Kid Friendly Cubed Roots – Hounds in the Kitchen 53. Spruce infused goat cheese 54. Real Food: An Introduction to My New Series 55. Old Fashioned Pear Cake 56. Chicken Chorizo Soup 57. Dr. Laura – Amish Cook’s Cherry Coffeecake 58. Moms for Safe Food – Easy Chicken Stew 59. Turkey Sweet Potato Pot Pie 60. Flavorful No Onion No Garlic Meal 61. Stir-Fry Broccoli 62. Corn and Spinach Soup 63. Catalina Cranberry Chicken 64. French Rye bread 65. Coconut Banana Pancakes 66. Ground Turkey (Rice Dish & Meatloaf Roll) 67. Confetti Cupcakes 68. Cod Stuffed Collard Leaves or Pseudolmades 69. Kicked Up Black-Eyed Pea and Pasta Salad 70. Steamed Baby Bok Choy 71. Deep Fried Pork Wonton 72. Fight Childhood Obesity: Fit Foodista Giveaway! 73. Real Food for Dogs 74. Serbian flat bread 75. Black Bean Hummus 76. Foraging Wild Mustard- Penniless Parenting 77. Kerala-Style Edamame Curry 78. Crispy Honey Roast Pork Belly (vids of results!) 79. How to turn soup into gluten-free sauce! 80. Test Kitchen Tuesdays: Savoring Today 81. Rendering Lard 82. Slow Cooker Coconut Chicken Curry 83. Beef jerky with eggs for breakfast 84. Green Beans with Creamy Mustard Sauce – Martha 85. Peanutty Chicken 86. Corniest Corn Muffins 87. Bengan Bhartha – Indian Curried Eggplant 88. Beignets 89. Butterfly Garden Party & Recipes 90. Mexican Omelette ~ Family Tested & Kid Approved!! 91. Almond Oatmeal Cookies (vegan) 92. Avocado Onion Salad 93. Blueberry Muffins & Lemon Compound Butter 94. California Chicken and Avocado Rolls 95. Tres Leches Cake 96. Chickn & Mushroom Pasta in Creamy Sherry Sauce 97. Vegan Kale Pesto 98. Thai Beef with Chilies & Coconut Rice 99. ratatouille 100. Chicken Cutlets with Prosciutto

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