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Homemade Brown Sugar

Homemade Brown Sugar I've been wondering lately what it might take to make my own homemade brown sugar. Possible, impossible? ...
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Make it a French Day with some cheese and a Wiskey Sour, since vine isn't quite enough

How to Make it a “French Day”

Make is a French Day Well to answer why you need to make it a French Day, its because the ...
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Lemon Verbena

Lemon Verbena fresh picked Herbs Chapter 1: Lemon Verbena Lemon Verbena dried I have Spain to thank for bringing this ...
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Fried Zucchini Flowers

Zucchini flowers Growing up in an all Italian household brings back a lot of memories. Food is high upon the ...
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Farm Feast 2018

Farm Feast 2018: This summer, I took a little visit back to our family farm in California. It was the ...
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The Vodka Martini

6 Liter Vodka bottle, a good attitude for optimal enjoyment No other drink quite compares to the mighty Vodka Martini ...
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The Summer Solstice

Raspberry patch The summer solstice was celebrated in the Northern Hemisphere today. For us, it symbolizes the first day of ...
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A New Summer Garden

Summer garden with lettuce My Summer garden is officially on track. It's the second week of June 2018, and I'm ...
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Pink Peony flowers

Peony flower The Pink Peony flower, is one of the most symbolic flowers found in nature. Native to China, Southern ...
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Elderberry Bouquet

Bouquet Fit for a Duchess Natural bouquet My inspiration for picking today's Elderberry Bouquet spurred from the royal wedding this ...
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Cannabis Oil

cannabis plant Cannabis is the herb of the god's. It's been around since the inception of time. It's been smoked, ...
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Birthday Meal, for a Vintage Guy

original typewriter recipe Birthday's in my house are meant to be special. We usually make it special with a special ...
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Veggie Pasta and Salad

Veggie Pasta My options are slowly returning due to the fact that Spring is 3 weeks in. We started our ...
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Easter Cookies

easter cookies Easter cookies are as good of an idea as Christmas cookies. My daughter decided she wanted to make ...
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Herbs: Lungwort, Coltsfoot and Horsetail

First Bloom Lungwort Lungwort is one of those amazing herbs I read about, but missed the growing season (2017). When ...
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The Crusts of Life

Crusts: officially denoted as "the tough outer layer, a hardened layer or coating, or a deposit on layer of something ...
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Purposeless Walk Inspires Food Choice.

water brunnenthe long-haired cows in the backold, farmer houseSchongau, view from the toplovely old farm housesaint insect!Small bridgeOberschongau, clock and ...
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Herb Roasted Potatoes

herb roasted potatoes This is a quick update on an old idea. Pressed for time, or wanting to get a ...
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Fresh Ground Meat

Fresh ground meat seasoned for sauce Using fresh ground meat in any recipe makes a difference beyond compare. I have ...
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Swiss Breakfast

Typical Swiss breakfast table Start a Tradition A Swiss breakfast is something I crave. The tradition was first introduced into ...
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Best Places to Visit in California!

Flag of California I know, not my typical post, but I have a number of people who I know, that ...
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Thanksgiving Turkey 2016

Thanksgiving Day Menu Turkey very hot, fresh out of the oven, with sage leaves on top We ordered & picked ...
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A Table Worth Setting

Table with persimmon and pomegranate I'm not sure how often you've told yourself, "it's not worth setting a nice table" ...
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Fall’s Best Tea

Source: Me; cir. 2015 Fresh ginger, cinnamon & verbena tea brewed and ready for chilling (if desired) The Wonder's of ...
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Fall Garden Wrap Up

The Summer Finale It's been a long, joyous season in the garden this year. I've had an abundance of flowers ...
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Red Hot Spicy Oil

Source: Rochelle 2015 Red Hot Chilli Pepers drying on a baking sheet The love of spice Red hot spicy oil ...
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All-Clad is All-Right

In order to understand why All-Clad is All right we need to go back a few years. I knew when ...
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Week’s Inspiration from my Bio Box

Bio Box surprise First week of November, and you expect the pickings from the veg. assortment to be slim. Instead, ...
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French Press Coffee

French press coffee The amazing history of coffee French press method or not, what took Starbucks over 25 years to ...
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Weekly Organic Delivery

summer organic vegetable deliveryfall organic vegetable deliveryspring organic vegetable delivery spring Every week I get a beautiful box of fresh ...
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Home-Made Croutons

Croutons, with some herbs Croutons, loosely translated in French, means crusts. I'd imagine, these little delights were invented from the ...
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