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Category Archives: food preservation
Hat’s Off to the New Year!
In just a few hours it will be 2012. On New Year’s Eve I always find myself wondering what the new year has in store? It is no figment of my imagination, that the older I get, the faster the … Continue reading
Posted in activities, DIY, food preservation, gardening, Household, Life's Simple Pleasures, Organization, Seasonal
Tagged agritourism, family and friends, goal planning, goals, haycation idea, New Year, resolutions, success
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Have you gotten your Christmas tree yet?
Today set a record in our family for getting the Christmas tree. We have never gotten the tree until 7-10 days before Christmas. This year circumstances encouraged us to make the journey earlier in the month. Our family tradition up … Continue reading
Posted in DIY, food preservation, Household, Recipe, Seasonal
Tagged Christmas tree, holiday traditions, Indian, lentil and rice recipe, spices
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Step into Fall
Fall is probably my most favorite season of the year. I love the cool crisp air on sunny October days. The air smells fresh and clean and hopefully there are lots of sunny skies to motivate me to get outside. … Continue reading
Eggs. The perfect food!
About Pullets My pullets have begun to lay now that they have reached 5 months of age and I have more eggs than I know what to do with. Pullets are young female chickens. They are called pullets until they … Continue reading
Posted in DIY, food preservation, gift ideas, Recipe, Uncategorized
Tagged custard, egg recipes, eggs, home-made egg noodles, pullets
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Tomato Bliss
Absence makes the heart grow fonder and by the middle of July I can hardly wait until those first green tomatoes ripen in the garden. This year I got so desperate I made fried green tomatoes just so I could … Continue reading
Canning 101 | Taste of Home Recipes
Canning 101 | Taste of Home Recipes. I have been a subscriber to “Taste of Home” magazine for many years because it’s a great magazine that features no ads, offers a wide variety of wonderful recipes in each edition, and … Continue reading
Posted in DIY, food preservation, gardening, gift ideas, Life's Simple Pleasures, Recipe, Uncategorized
Tagged canning How-To, healthy eating, Taste of Home
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The Frugal Minded Point of View
I’m sure I am not the only person these days looking for ways to stretch my dollars. We are blessed with a comfortable home and land enough to raise children, animals and a garden. Yet there are times when I … Continue reading
Posted in DIY, food preservation, gift ideas, Recipe
Tagged broccoil soup, less is more, reduce reuse recycle, zucchini jam
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World Community Cook Books
I have two World Community Cook Books that I think everyone would benefit by using. The books were commissioned by Mennonite Central Committee to promote global understanding. Simply in Season, (Lind & Hockman-Wert) promotes understanding of how the food choices … Continue reading
Posted in food preservation, Organization, Recipe
Tagged cook book, More with Less, seasonal foods, world cultures
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Garden A Plenty!
Garden veggies are in full swing in Southern Indiana. In my garden, green beans, cabbage, broccoli, zucchini, summer squash and cucumbers are producing rampantly. The tomatoes and peppers are just ripening a few at a time and okra is just … Continue reading
Posted in DIY, food preservation, gardening, gift ideas, Recipe
Tagged garden, gift idea, pickle recipe, vegetable preservation
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Quarter Amish 