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Food from your hearth, made for your soul every Tuesday on the Hearth and Soul Blog Hop!

Visit our New Hearth and Soul Hop Hub for everything Hearth and Soul, including upcoming events, highlighted recipes, all previous blog hops in one place, featured bloggers and more!

Get the Hearth and Soul Hop Daily Widget for your Blog and check out all the information about it!

We had so much fun with the Two for Tuesday Recipe Blog Hop! As with all things that are living, the Blog Hop is going through tremendous growth and change and we have refocused it to more clearly represent what food means to us and how we want to share that message. Thus, Hearth and Soul 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.

Get the Hearth and Soul Blog Hop Widget!

If you want to share the foodie love with our ever expanding hearth felt blog community on the Hearth and Soul Hop, you can add the Hearth and Soul Hop Daily Blog Widget to your sidebar, which shares our daily newspaper listings with all your readers for all the hop participants who are members of twitter and following the hearth and soul hop list. This link to the Hearth and Soul Hop Daily Blog Widget explains it all!

Rules for linking to the hearth and soul hop:

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!

*At least one host will visit each link 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! The Hearth and Soul Hop Team!

Alex at A Moderate Life

Christy at Frugality and Crunchiness with Christy

Jason at Alternative Health and Nutrition

Alea of Premeditated Leftovers

April of 21st Century Housewife

Michelle of Fit Foodista

Kankana of Sunshine and Smile

Swathi of Zesty South Indian Kitchen

and you can always link up at the hub!

The Hearth and Soul Hop Hub

This is the code for the Hearth and Soul Blog Hop. We have decided to switch to a single blog badge so it’s easier for everyone!  If you wish to share the love by using a Hearth and Soul badge, we really appreciate it! Please copy and paste it into the bottom of your blog post or you can choose to simply place a link back to the Hearth and Soul Blog Hop:

<a href=”http://amoderatelife.com/hearth-and-soul-blog-hop/” _mce_href=”http://amoderatelife.com/hearth-and-soul-blog-hop/”><img src=” http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f290/rrocknrollgoddess/Blog%20photos/HearthandSoulBadge-1.jpg” _mce_src=” http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f290/rrocknrollgoddess/Blog%20photos/HearthandSoulBadge-1.jpg” alt=”Hearth and Soul Hop at A Moderate Life” width=”135″ height=”135″ /></a>

Remember to highlight the HTML code and right click to copy it. You can then paste it into your blog posts, or put it in your sidebar to share the real food love! Please email me at alex at amoderatelife dot com if you have any questions or suggestions.

Past Blog Hops:

Check out these past blog hops for tons of great recipes and real food information!

Two for Tuesday Recipe Blog Hop-Volume 1 Two for Tuesday Recipe Blog Hop-Volume 2

Two for Tuesday Recipe Blog Hop-Volume 3 Two for Tuesday Recipe Blog Hop-Volume 4

Two for Tuesday Recipe Blog Hop-Volume 5 Two for Tuesday Recipe Blog Hop-Volume 6

Two for Tuesday Recipe Blog Hop-Volume 7 Two for Tuesday Recipe Blog Hop-Volume 8

Two for Tuesday Recipe Blog Hop-Volume 9 Two for Tuesday Recipe Blog Hop-Volume 10

Two for Tuesday Recipe Blog Hop-Volume 11 Two for Tuesday Recipe Blog Hop-Volume 12

Two for Tuesday Recipe Blog Hop-Volume 13 Hearth and Soul Hop-Volume 14

***New Name to fit our Mission Statement!***

Hearth and Soul Hop-Volume 15 Hearth and Soul Hop-Volume 16 Hearth and Soul Hop-Volume 17

Hearth and Soul Hop-Volume 18 Hearth and Soul Hop-Volume 19 Hearth and Soul Hop-Volume 20

Hearth and Soul Hop-Volume 21 Hearth and Soul Hop-Volume 22 Hearth and Soul Hop-Volume 23

Hearth and Soul Hop-Volume 24 Hearth and Soul Hop-Volume 25 Hearth and Soul Hop-Volume 26

Hearth and Soul Hop-Volume 27 Hearth and Soul Hop-Volume 28 Hearth and Soul Hop-Volume 29

Hearth and Soul Hop-Volume 30 Hearth and Soul Hop-Volume 31 Hearth and Soul Hop-Volume 32

Hearth and Soul Hop-Volume 33 Hearth and Soul Hop-Volume 34 Hearth and Soul Hop-Volume 35

Hearth and Soul Hop-Volume 36 Hearth and Soul Hop-Volume 37 Hearth and Soul Hop-Volume 38

Hearth and Soul Hop-Volume 39 Hearth and Soul Hop-Volume 40 Hearth and Soul Hop-Volume 41

Hearth and Soul Hop-Volume 42