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Category Archives: Recipes
Cheap All-Natural Shampoo
I don’t know if you have noticed how expensive hair products are getting, but I have! I wanted to find out if there was a cheaper way to wash my hair. I looked up homemade shampoo recipes on the Internet and tried … Continue reading
Sweet Potatoes Are Here!
Last Saturday we dug up two buckets full of sweet potatoes from the garden. Most of our family enjoys sweet potatoes, but a few of us do not (including me). I wanted to see if I could turn the sweet … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, General, Recipes
Tagged fall, pie, potatoes, sweet potato, sweet potato pie
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What We Can Learn From the French About Food
We’ve been listening to some excellent seminar presentations by French Chef Francis Foucachon, former owner of the West of Paris restaurant. In this presentation, Chef Foucachon, born, raised and educated in Lyon, has been discussing how the French view food … Continue reading
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Tagged cooking, eating, french cooking, french food, fresh food, gardening, health, local food, nutrition, real food
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Tomato Harvest: Thunder-and-Lightening recipe
It’s been a struggle keeping the garden alive in this drought this year. But if there is one thing we do, as my wife says, we must get the tomatoes! We’ve been watering the tomatoes once a week and they … Continue reading
Wild Blackberry Cobbler
The Blackberries are here!!!!! Our family has been enjoying this year’s crop of blackberries. Our back fence line is covered with lots of bushes and the children have been gathering berries every few days. Here is one of our cobbler … Continue reading
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Tagged berry cobbler, blackberries, blackberry, blackberry cobbler, blackberry patch, cobbler, country, dessert, dessert recipes, farm, farm fresh, fresh berries, garden, homestead, paula deen, recipe, wild blackberry
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Ice Cream Sandwich Cake
This cake is definitely a family favorite! It is very easy to make. Ingredients: 2 boxes of ice cream sandwiches 2 bottles of whipped cream 1 jar of caramel 1 bottle of chocolate syrup 1 can of nut topping … Continue reading
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Tagged cake, caramel, chocolate syrup, Ice cream, Ice cream sandwiches, nuts, whipped cream
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