Food
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**Canning Basics (Read Me First)
This is the first of what’s going to become a series on preserving food. I do a fair amount of canning and freezing. Although I’m no Barbara Kingsolver, and some years I do decidedly more than others, canning is one of the ways that I help to keep our grocery bills under budget while eating as locally…
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Blueberry-Cucumber Smoothie
[portfolio_slideshow] Barely Adapted From Vegetarian Times See more recipes here The last few days have felt like fall around here: rainy and a little cool. We’ve been wearing sweaters and jeans almost as often as not, but we still have plenty of delicious farm fresh veggies to work our way through. A couple of weeks…
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Picking
I finally had a few moments to look through the pictures from Saturday’s pick-your-own at Bartlett’s. It was overcast and spitting rain drops off and on all day, but we couldn’t have had a better time. (And the gray weather was the perfect excuse for pulling out an adorable pair of overalls…I love itty-bitty, pink…
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Report Card
Quick Irene Report For our worried friends and relatives, we were much luckier than than many and didn’t see a single drop of rain. In fact, we woke up to bright and shiny skies that persisted through much of the day. Most of the concern on Nantucket were high speed winds, astronomically high tides, and very dangerous…
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Cooking Lessons With Chris
As promised, here’s the video from the Plum TV visit to the Brotherhood. Chris is in the second half of the video. My, do I think my hubby looks handsome in this. He’d make a great TV chef! 🙂 And, in case you were wondering, both of those dishes are just fabulous.
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Strawberry Crumb Muffins
Adapted from Janae Monir See more recipes here While we were flush with strawberries after two weekends of picking, I also happened across a rather delicious looking recipe for Blueberry Crumb Cake. Being the baker that I am, I decided it would be the perfect starting point for a second strawberry muffin recipe (I also…
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Risotto Rice Pudding with Brown Sugar and Vanilla
Adapted from Joy the Baker See more recipes here Rice pudding is one of my favorite quick late-night desserts (as you can see by the yellowish lighting in all the pictures!). It’s sweet, but not too much, and the milk provides the heavier, comfort-food happiness I’m usually looking for at those times when I should…
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A Little Bit Brilliant and a Little Bit Not
Today was another wonderful, wonderful day. It started with a strawberry rhubarb buckle that I mostly made up on the spot, and that turned out delicious. I love when baking just works, and I love that I finally understand so much more about how to combine ingredients to get the desired effect. This morning, I…
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Rhubarb Muffins
Adapted from Smitten Kitchen See more recipes here Here’s number two of my rhubarb deliciousness kick. It’s an adaption of a recipe from my favorite cooking blog, Smitten Kitchen, which interestingly post just as I was getting ready to make muffins of on of my tried-and-true recipes. I loved Deb’s description of them as “a…
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Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp
Adapted from Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book See more recipes here I know I haven’t written a report card in forever, and I have a million things I should be writing about, but I’ve been spending my free time with my visiting in-laws and I have two rhubarb recipes that are dying to…
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And It Begins
What, I have a blog? And I’m supposed to be writing updates about our life on it? Oh, yeah. I can’t believe how things have been getting away from me the past few weeks. I feel like I’ve been working around the clock, with Nora, babysitting, keeping house, and doing computer work at night. And,…
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A Little Pick-Me-Up
in MotherhoodVery, very rarely, Nora has days with lots of this: and this: and even some of this: Don’t hate me for taking this picture; I made it all better after this, I promise… I know that temper-tantrums are a normal developmental milestone.
