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Energy shots with ginger and turmeric 3

Energy Shots with Ginger and Turmeric

What do you do with a bountiful harvest of ginger and turmeric from your garden? Well, you could make energy shots. They offer a great non-caffeine pick-me-up when you’re feeling the winter blahs, and might just keep you healthy during...

Heirloom watermelon, some dehydrated 3

Can You Dehydrate Watermelon?

The book that came with my Excalibur food dryer says watermelon is “poor for dehydrating.” I say otherwise. It dries nicely, keeps well, and tastes great. Here’s how to dehydrate watermelon: Pick the Right Watermelon Start with a large, fully...

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Egg Size Conversions for Recipes

Most recipes calling for eggs are geared toward large chicken eggs. But what if you have only small bantams eggs? Or extra large duck eggs, or even jumbo turkey eggs? Some recipes can be ruined by using the wrong size...

Not Bailey's Irish Cream, But Close 1

Not Bailey’s Irish Cream, But Close

Bailey’s Irish Cream is a whiskey-based cream liqueur. At our house we enjoy a little glass as dessert, or sometimes we have it over vanilla ice cream. The real deal is divine, but rather pricey. So I decided to find...

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Cauliflower Pickles with Ginger and Turmeric

Ginger, along with its cousin turmeric, must be harvested before first frost. Accordingly, every fall I end up with an abundance of both. In seeking new ways to use either one, I ran across a delicious recipe that incorporates both...

potimarron aka kuri squash 2

Potimarron — Easy to Grow and Delicious, Too

Potimarron is a prolific and easy-to-grow pear-shape squash in the Hubbard family. The flavor of this delicous squash supposedly is reminiscent of roasted chestnuts. Its name is a French combination of potiron meaning pumpkin and marron meaning chestnut. It’s also...

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Easy Homemade Kosher Dill Pickles

Finding a good recipe for homemade kosher dill pickles can be a gamble. I’ve gone through many recipes that didn’t quite hit the mark and some that were downright awful. Finally I discovered a recipe that’s perfect. For starters, these...

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How to Make Apple Jelly from Homegrown Apples

When deer congregate under the apple tree and crows drop apples in the driveway for a peck fest, it’s time to make apple jelly. The deer and crows tell us the apples are just starting to ripen. Apples that aren’t...

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Old-Time Coffee and Old-Time Cookbooks

What to do when you wake up in the morning to below freezing temperatures and the power out? For me, first thing I want is a cup of hot coffee to jump-start my brain. But with the power out, my...

Thousand Island dressing ingredients 2

Thousand Island Dressing Isn’t Just for Salads

At the end of the gardening season, when frost threatens, I wander around looking for stragglers that might freeze. I invariably find a few young dill plants that missed their scheduled spring sprouting. That’s when I think of making Thousand...