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Locavore Meal Plan – Mid August
Meal-planning is an important part of our week. As locavores, it makes eating locally much easier because we take the time to figure out what seasonal foods are available and how we can use them. If...
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Cooking Slowly to Save Time (and a Giveaway!)
When it comes to cooking from scratch you can save time, money, and energy by planning ahead. However, you can go one step better than simply planning by actually cooking ahead. Slow cookers (or crock...
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Canning an (Almost) All-Garden Salsa
Alright, a few days ago I got a bit romantic about our love of preserving. Now, however, we’re in crunch mode so I’m feeling slightly less amorous about the whole thing. For one thing we have a huge...
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Our Best Peach Salsa Recipe for Canning
Our final batch of salsa that we canned for the year, Chunky Peach Salsa, was definitely our best. And maybe that is because after canning 3 other batches we learned a couple things. One thing we...
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Last Call for Corn
Fall is here. Summer is over. But can we eat well once summer is gone? Yes, that is a resounding yes! And a great way to keep eating well once the harvest has ended is by preserving the harvest...
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Winter de Gallo Salsa
Every September we stockpile salsa. We can all of it with the goal of having enough jars for an average of 5-6 per month until we can make fresh salsa again. Thus we canned just over 50 jars. Fresh...
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Small Batch Homebrewing (and a Giveaway!)
“Whatever highly honorable motives they may have—to save money or to enjoy themselves, for example—the greatest motivation for homebrewers is the opportunity to experiment and to produce beer in all...
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Zucchini “Pasta”
While I’m not a fan of endlessly adding kitchen gadgets to our extremely small kitchen, there are the occasional ones that seem worth it. The spiralizer is one of those. After a friend lent us hers to...
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Peach and Pear Chutney
Chutneys were for a long time a bit of a mystery to me. That is until I was given some by a friend and realized to my delight that just like ketchup, it goes well on top of pretty much everything. I...
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Kohlrabi Sesame Slaw
I made this on a whim with kohlrabi we got in our first installment of this year’s CSA. A trick of mine for making nice uniform julienned style slices for the carrots and kohlrabi is to cut them into...
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