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Are you tempted by the lovely basket of peppers at the Farmer’s Market but not quite sure how to deal with so many all at once? Since most [...]
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Tags: beans·beef·farmer's market·fast meals·in-season recipes·main dishes·peppers·recipes·summer foods·summer meals
Summer recipes deserve a category all their own. One of my new recipe organization methods this year was to pull my strictly summertime recipes as I came across them, and I put them all in a manila folder marked “Summer Recipes.” It lives in storage along with phone numbers for my u-pick fruit places and [...]
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Tags: recipes·summer
Is “grassfed” a sort of status symbol when stamped on a recipe?
You betcha. You can make just about any recipe, especially one that cooks the meat for a long time and in liquid, with either grassfed or conventionally raised beef. It makes the recipe title sound fancy, though, doesn’t it?
UPDATE: A commenter pointed [...]
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Tags: beef·grassfed beef·main dishes·recipes
You know I’d never lie to you.
Right?
I hope the title of this post doesn’t seem like trickery, since by now you know that I’m simply not organized by nature. I have a plethora of good intentions, and I often get started with a winner of a system for any given organizing endeavor, but either [...]
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Tags: organization·recipes
You’re starving. The kids are starving. It’s way past lunch and you haven’t even thought about dinner. You open up the cupboard and…all you see are ingredients. Uh oh.
Healthy Snacks To Go to the rescue! With over 30 healthy snack recipes including traditional granola bars, iron-packed Popeye bars, and a dozen “larabar” style variations, [...]
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Tags: ebooks·healthy school lunches·real food·recipes·snacks
Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to capture your own yeast from the air! We’re going to make our own sourdough starters. Don’t get scared yet. Believe me, if I can do this, you can too.
I was so intimidated by sourdough that I waited over six months to try it. [...]
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Tags: fermentation·grains·phytase·recipes·sourdough·sourdough starter·whole grains·whole wheat·whole wheat flour
Chili is a great winter comfort food. It’s warm, hearty, and of course it includes beans! Good, healthy, yummy stuff. Unfortunately, a lot of recipes, like my husband’s old favorite, contain a lot of canned ingredients – canned tomatoes, canned “chili” beans, and more. So what is a whole-foods-eating-girl to do?
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Tags: beans·beef·chili·Guest Posts·healthy substitutes·main dishes·recipes