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October Recap 💌
Jaclyn Kirby
November 03, 2024
SELF - C. 🌮 A. 📓 R. 👨🌾 E. 💊
Cooking: Breakfast tacos with cilantro lime sauce 🌮🍳
If you need something new to look forward to on a slow weekend morning, I’ve got you covered with this recipe.
My husband and I made these a few times last month and only got a photo the time we used the sriracha yogurt sauce that I share in my ebook and other past recipes… BUT the cilantro lime sauce elevates this so if you have the time and ingredients, I highly recommend the full experience 🌿💚
Make in advance:
🍦 Homemade plain yogurt for the cilantro lime sauce:
*Make 2 days before your meal
1. Place ¾ cup of plain greek yogurt into the bottom of a large jar. (I use a 1 liter jar, but you can also split this into two smaller jars)
2. Warm 5-6 cups of raw milk on the stove until 165 degrees, then cool it down to 115 degrees. Stir slowly and continuously throughout the heating process.
3. At 115 degrees, pour the milk into the jar with the greek yogurt and stir until the yogurt is completely mixed in.
4. Close the lid and store in a dark, warm place for 20-24 hours. A great place to store is inside your oven while it’s turned off. Or, cover the jar with foil to keep it dark and set it under a light in a warm area of your house.
5. After your yogurt has set for 20-24 hours, you can pour any excess liquid that’s formed on the top off and store in the fridge for another 20-24 hours before it’s ready to eat.
🌯 Homemade tortilla recipe:
*Make first thing the morning of your meal or up to 2 days in advance
Ingredients:
- 3 cups flour
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 ¼ tsp baking powder
- ½ stick of butter
- 1 cup warm water
Directions:
1. Mix all ingredients into a dough ball.
2. Let sit covered for 30 minutes in a warm.
3. Separate into small dough balls. For the breakfast tacos, break it into about 10-12 pieces for medium-sized tortillas.
4. Roll out on a floured surface until thin and shaped into your tortilla.
5. Cook on a hot pan or skillet until it starts to bubble up. Flip and repeat on the other side.
6. Keep warm in a pan with a lid, or store in the fridge for future meals.
🌿💚 Cilantro lime sauce:
*Make the morning of your meal or up to 2 days in advance
Ingredients:
- ½ bunch of cilantro
- 1 lime
- 1 cup plain greek yogurt
- 3 garlic cloves
- EVOO
- S + P
Directions:
1. Wash cilantro and add to a blender with 1 cup of plain yogurt, juice from 1 lime, 3 garlic cloves, a drizzle of EVOO (~a TBSP), and a pinch of S + P.
2. Blend until completely mixed.
3. Store in the fridge until you’re ready to use.
All that prep and now you’re ready for the morning of:
Breakfast Tacos:
Ingredients:
- 3 potatoes
- 3 eggs
- 1 avocado
- Shredded raw cheddar to top
Pico De Gallo Mixture:
- 1 tomato
- ¼ of an onion
- 1 jalapeno
- 3 garlic cloves
- EVOO
- S + P
Directions:
1. Peel and grate potatoes with a cheese grater.
2. Heat EVOO in a nontoxic pan and layer shredded potato into a pancake-like shape. Season with paprika, garlic powder, onion powder, S + P.
3. Chop tomato, onion, jalapeno, and garlic cloves. Combine in a small bowl and mix with a drizzle of EVOO and a sprinkle of S + P.
4. Once your potatoes are crispy on one side, flip like a pancake to cook the other side. Sprinkle the same seasonings on the second side.
5. Scramble your eggs in a bowl and heat 1 TBSP of butter, ghee, or tallow in a pan. Cook scrambled eggs once the pan is hot.
6. Slice up avocado and shred raw cheddar.
7. Cut hash browns into strips.
8. Warm tortillas on both sides in a large pan with about 1 TBSP of butter, then assemble your tacos — A strip of hash browns, scrambled eggs, pico de gallo mixture, sprinkle of shredded raw cheddar, drizzle with your cilantro lime sauce.
9. Fold up like a giant taco and enjoy!
🌶️ Option to swap cilantro lime sauce for our regular sriracha yogurt sauce that I’ve described in past recipes, or be completely basic and boring and just use your favorite hot sauce as you bought it, if that’s your thing 🤷♀️
Art: Memory Journal 📓
My journal is filled with half-asleep thoughts and the messiest handwriting… which I wouldn’t want any other way.
Journaling first thing in the morning (usually in the pitch black before sunrise so I can’t even see the mess I’m scribbling) has been the best way to capture my most honest thoughts and connect more deeply with myself.
However, I’m always very jealous of the beautifully aesthetic journal pages I see girls post on social media. Whether it’s junk journaling, or just the most organized journal prompts and cutesy doodles perfectly filling the page, their inner thoughts and memories are captured like art.
I wanted that, but I knew that trying to make my journal look pretty would only make me stop journaling altogether because who has time for that attention to detail every single day?
So instead, I started a monthly memory journal where I pull inspiration from one outing or moment in the month and capture the essence of that experience. It’s a bit of junk journaling with saved wine labels and bottle caps, mixed with scrapbooking. I bought this mini printer, used on Amazon for $30 which gave me the push to start this project.
🎨📷🏔️✏️📓💑
For the month of August, I captured our trip to Carmel. September, I was most inspired by our day trip to Tahoe which was on our 6 month wedding anniversary so I even taped in some of the dried flowers from the bouquet my husband surprised me with.
Now that October is done, I’m working on a music-themed page because we went and saw a lot of live music last month which inspired my husband to expand his music studio at our house 🎶
Reading: Folks, This Ain't Normal by Joel Salatin 👨🌾
Joel Salatin is the owner of Polyface Farms, a farm in Virginia that commits to practices that are in alignment with nature, resulting in food that actually benefits human health.
He has a super strong personality and argues for the return to nature. The return to logic. Healing the land and the human health crisis with classic farming.
I enjoy his bold opinions on lifestyle and I agree with a lot of what he shares. His lifestyle and bluntness are not everyone’s cup of tea, but I think it’s important to hear from farmers who actually know what's going on with our food so that we can better understand the products we’ve come to normalize and make more informed decisions on what we choose to consume.
A few topics he goes into detail on are:
How heating your home with firewood does more for men’s health — which then supports the family’s health — than almost anything else.
Eating seasonally, as nature intended, benefits human and Earth’s health.
The insanity of individually wrapped plastic meals in public places like airports.
How sad it is that a lot of people don’t know how to cook so when they see someone buying basics like butter, eggs, and vegetables, they don’t recognize that as food.
The problem with government involvement in our food system.
The importance of reducing the food miles on your plate.
I’m only about ¾ of the way through this book so I’m still learning but I enjoy hearing from farmers like him. These are the type of farms I buy from rather than getting meat from the grocery store.
I like how this quote from the book applies to all areas of life:
“Help is not always a handout. Help can also be a butt-out. And help is not always about material possessions. Sometimes it requires faith in people to go through their societal evolution, that they can indeed learn from their mistakes.”
And here are two more that when I read, I thought, “That’s exactly what I would say! It feels like I wrote this.”:
“But when it comes to food, not only are we pouring junk into our bodies’ engines, we don’t seem to care when we blow a gasket. Like blowing a gasket is supposed to be common or something. If our car engine blows a gasket, all our friends come around sympathetically offering condolences and we enjoy being depressed together. But if our bodies have an equivalent breakdown, we assume we’ve been the victim of faulty genes or the disease fairies sprinkling their disease whimsically from the heavens.
“But if you’re gardening, cooking, and cottage-industrying—home can be as exciting as any discretionary destination.”
Enthusiasm: Transmuting all addictions…
… Kidding! Promise I’m not lacking self-awareness that terribly 🫶
My honest belief is that all humans are addicts. Maybe your choice isn’t drugs or alcohol, but it’s media, food, exercise, being told what to do by those you view as authorities, or even drama.
What I’ve been working on lately is making sure that I don’t feel like I need any one daily thing. The easiest example to explain this with is coffee.
Your morning cup of coffee becomes the thing you do to get your day going. You don’t have to think about it, you just do it. Does your morning coffee always taste amazing and you absolutely savor and delight in every sip?
Or do you just feel comforted by the familiarity of having it?
Although I am someone who does feel great when I drink my remineralized, well-sourced, mold-free coffee with a splash of well-sourced raw milk, and a drizzle of raw honey…
I still believe that consuming any one thing every single day, is not great for our bodies.
If you think about it, our ancestors would’ve never had the luxury to eat or drink any one thing every single day because they worked with the seasons and with what grew best in the area they lived.
Now, I’m not saying that we all shouldn’t drink coffee because we don’t live in South America. But I like to take the basics from our ancestors who lived naturally and healthily enough to get us all here to this modern society where everything is at our fingertips.
So does it make sense to drink coffee every single day? I don’t think so.
Are my chickens’ eggs healthy for me to eat for breakfast? I definitely think so but should I eat multiple eggs 7 days a week? I think that’s overdoing it.
All healthy habits can become unhealthy when you go to the extreme. When you overconsume any one thing, your body starts to have more difficulties processing it which can lead to health problems.
Or we can talk about the microplastics and heavy metals that are in most packaged food, especially in like 90% of coffee available in America… A bit of plastic and heavy metals is unavoidable and our bodies can cleanse it out. But a little bit of plastic and heavy metals every single day leads to an overloaded toxin bucket which = disease.
Even buying mold and toxin-free coffee like I do, does not guarantee that it’s perfect. It’s still a mass-produced product that’s shipped all over the world which results in nutrient loss and whatever negative energy can be picked up during its travels through unnatural conditions.
During the month of October and now forward, I’m enjoying saving coffee for one weekday and one weekend day per week. This way I have something extra special on Wednesday and Sunday mornings to brighten up my mid-week and create a more special and luxurious weekend morning.
☕ Plus it makes your coffee taste way better when you take a few days away from it!
I still love a warm morning drink so I’ve been alternating my no coffee days with a chai latte, herbal tea, or hot water with lemon.
I just restocked my herbs with a big order from Mountain Rose Herbs ✨ So excited for more chai and loose-leaf tea 🍵 Also iced chai on a Saturday morning in the beginning of October was great. Now I think the iced drinks are in hibernation for me until Spring 🥶🧊
This strategy can be applied for almost anything you find yourself indulging in daily. Take note of the things that make you feel incredible and include those things often, but not so much that it loses its benefit.
Even drinking too much water can become unhealthy. So it’s not about not having the things you feel amazing about, but ensuring that you aren’t taking something good and turning it into a problem.
Daily habits I live by are:
Move in a way that feels great for my body
Eat whole foods grown in alignment with nature
Drink clean water
Touch the Earth
Breathe deeply and mindfully as often as possible
All the specifics within those can be switched up to best support your ever-changing self.
Sending you so much love, joy, and cozy fall feels this month!
Welcome November 🤎
🤍 Jaclyn
P.S. Reply and let me know if you’re doing anything new and exciting for Thanksgiving!
Last year my mom and I made every single thing on our Thanksgiving dinner table from scratch. So no boxes, cans, or packages, and honestly it was a ton of work.
I definitely plan to do it again but I need to prepare and help my mom out a lot more this year so it’s not overwhelming.
I’d love to try out some of your favorite holiday recipes or traditions that help foster deeper connections 🧡🦃🍂🍁