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You can easily grow stevia in your home’s edible landscape. Then you harvest the leaves to make your very own home-grown sweetener. I’m sharing how to harvest, preserve & use Stevia.
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Whether mourning a death in the family, dealing with illness or even just feeling overwhelmed by the responsibilities of a new baby, those going through hardships are often comforted when others bring food.
I’m sharing a list of meal ideas to consider when taking food to a family, whether for illness, grieving families or ‘just because’.
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This sweetened sugared popcorn requires only 4 ingredients – popped popcorn, butter, sugar and water. And it comes together super fast too. Especially nice for a movie night or a special snack.
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The final harvest of all my fresh herbs from the garden happens before the first killing frost of the season. Then preserve them to use all year long.
A Facebook follower asked about my herb-drying setup. Y’all know I’m all about simplicity! So I thought I’d show the simple way I dry my fresh herbs.
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Have you heard of cooking a chicken ‘spatchcock’ style? That’s simply where you open the whole chicken and spread it out flat. It cooks much faster that way.
But we were wondering if we could do the same thing with a larger bird. Perhaps our holiday Turkey? So we sat out to experiment.
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You can easily change up the flavor of plain rice to go with any entree. Since rice is an inexpensive pantry staple I prepare it often as a side dish with our meals. Today I’m sharing a few of my favorite (yet super EASY) rice flavors to serve.
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I had leftover loaded chili cheese fries and didn’t want to just throw them away. My superpower is eliminating food waste. I’m not kidding, y’all!
Come see what I did with those unappealing leftover Chili-Cheese Fries.
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Planned leftovers is purposely cooking more at one meal with the intent of turning those leftovers into a completely different kind of meal the next night.
We’d purposely grilled more chicken & vegetables so I could incorporate planned leftovers for the next day (which means a night off cooking!) That excess grilled food was quickly changed into delicious homemade chicken fajitas in minutes.
