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Raw Chai Coconut Pecan Brownies
This week has been crazy. Tom’s in the middle of an insane work schedule. 14 hour days for 2 weeks straight. I have a 4 month old and a 9 year old who is acting more like a 15 year old lately. Its...
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30 Days of Renewal – Day 6 – Oven Baked Marinated Chicken Drumsticks
I tried to get this posted yesterday, but Tom’s boss was coming to visit so I was a bit busy getting ready. Tom has an incredible metabolism. He is one of those guys who needs to eat 3000 calories a...
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30 Days of Renewal – Day 7 – How I Went Dairy Free
Going dairy free is scary. You think your never going to be able to eat ice cream again. You can’t have cheese, or butter, milk, or yogurt. But, over the last four months of going dairy-free, I’ve...
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30 Days of Renewal -Day 9 – How to Make Chive Blossom Vinegar
For weeks I’ve been waiting for these flowers to bloom. Ever since I read about making flower flavored vinegars. When Quirk Books sent me a new cookbook called Cooking with Flowers by Miche Bacher I...
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30 Days of Renewal – Day 10 – How to Make Pecan Butter
If you have never tried a nut or seed butter other then peanut butter then you are in for a treat. Peanuts are not actually nuts, their a bean! Which is why those allergic to peanuts may not be...
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30 Days of Renewal – Day 21 – 6 Fruits and Veggies I Always Have in the Kitchen
I planted the garden this weekend! Pictures and info on what I planted to come. For today I thought I would tell you about the 6 most useful fruits and veggies I use on a regular basis. 1. Mire...
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Homemade Flour Tortillas
Woah! Has it really been 2.5 months since my last post! Time flies when life gets busy doesn’t it? So much has been going on since my last post. In October we celebrated Gavin’s first birthday, my...
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Winter, Changes and a December Soup
Winter has touched the landscape with its icy fingers. This morning I woke up to a crisp 25 degrees outside. A thick layer of frost blanketed the ground. The apple trees and grapevines have been...
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How To Make Fresh Pasta (without a pasta machine)
It feels so good to be posting a recipe! Its been too long! Recently I discovered a wonderful website called Scribd. It’s basically Netflix for books and I am totally in love with it. Its like...
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30 Days of Renewal – Day 10 – How to Make Pecan Butter
If you have never tried a nut or seed butter other then peanut butter then you are in for a treat. Peanuts are not actually nuts, their a bean! Which is why those allergic to peanuts may not be...
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Breakfast Tacos
Are you feeling those first stirrings of Fall yet? I know I have been for a couple of weeks now. The nights are much cooler. My bedroom windows are still open at night, but only a crack. The...
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Heirloom Tomato Salad with Goat Cheese
I woke up in the middle of the night freezing cold. Even though I had a fuzzy warm blanket and my son snuggled up next to me, it wasn’t enough to keep me warm. I managed to sleep the rest of the...
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Oven Braised Chicken with Tomato and Olive Sauce
Happy Autumn Equinox! Mother Earth decided to bless us by sending our first real Fall day. The temperature dropped from the upper 90s down to 72 and breezy in just a couple days. The wind smelled wet...
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