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

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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

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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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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

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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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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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