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The Humorous Herb Garden
The day I decided to start my herb garden I found a box of children’s plastic yard, garden, or beach toys next to the recycle bin. I looked at them and decided 
that it would be fun to use the toys as ‘pots’ for growing my plants. So I took them back to the apartment and made holes in the bottom of them for water drainage like a proper planting pot.
I originally bought 2 pots and… READ MORE!
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Dutch Crunch Bread
Recently I tried my own Dutch Crunch as I have had it several times and love it in ‘loaf’ and roll form for straight consumption or to build a massive sandwich! What is it? You may ask…
The following quote is credited to Bacon Press , (as I try to keep it short and sweet here on my site for you) I find this paragraph to sum up its origin. ->
Like your typical sourdough loaf or baguette, Dutch Crunch didn’t originate here, although the name probably did. In the Netherlands, it’s known as Tijgerbrood and sold in… READ MORE!
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Basil Overload!
Here on my site and on Facebook I posted my findings from my first ‘Farm Fresh to You‘ home delivery organic food box. Which was noted as having at least ten bunches of Basil in it!
Well of course even I could not use that up without getting sick of it! So I cut the stems off and processed all the basil down with Extra Virgin Olive Oil and a few heads of garlic. Then I scooped the mixture into a Ziploc bag and cut the corner off. I piped the whole bag into two ice cube trays… READ MORE!
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Make Ricotta Cheese: its easy!
Over at Stumptown Savoury, Gareth has an excellent blog that I enjoy. He also has a post about making ricotta cheese at home, which is great because I can share it with you! (without having to write about it again myself)
I have tested doing it the way he says and it came out as good as his pictures show. Here is the link Home Creamery: Whole Milk Ricotta . Come on people, it has four ingredients: Milk, Heavy Cream, Citric Acid, & Salt!
What can you make with Ricotta? Lasagna, Manicotti, desserts…Gareth has… READ MORE!
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Pork Meatballs with Chorizo Seasoning
Anybody out there had Chorizo before? Well for those of you who have and know what I am talking about, you can buy a packet of seasoning called Chorizo Seasoning/Spices. Usually on the ‘quick pick’ rack of various seasonings not on the spice aisle in your grocery store, but on the international or ethnic aisle. In the Hispanic/Spanish section – usually right next to the severely limited ‘Asian’ section – in one of those 99 cents bags.
So an idea came to me to use it with some ground pork for meatballs. My wife is allergic to beef so… READ MORE!
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Farm Fresh To You – a look in the box
My box arrived today from Farm Fresh To You. I got the ‘small fast fruit & veg box’ so called for fruits and vegetables that don’t need to be cooked, but can be. I just picked this one because I liked what was in the box. And everything is certified organic.
When I ordered it (bi-weekly and everything changes as things are available) I wanted one more thing that was not listed, the Basil. So I emailed and asked about it, they wrote me back and said it would be… READ MORE!
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