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Garlic Scape Recipes: Pesto (2 Ways) & Garlic Scape Compound Butter
When I first started growing garlic years ago, I did so with little expectation. I’d taken a single bulb of garlic from our local whole foods co-op which consisted of 9 cloves, dug a trench and planted...
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Raspberry Beet Smoothie
Do you remember those foods from your childhood that you just simply hated? Me too. Canned spinach is the first to come to mind. No matter how many times my mom forced me to eat it, it always left me...
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Chicken Pot Pie Soup
Don’t you just love those foods that you could just wrap yourself up in and wear like a comfy oversized sweater? You know, the ones that are just so darn good they warm you up from the inside out and...
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Raspberry Vanilla Bean Jam (Low Sugar, 2 Ways)
As I sit here today, winter is beating at our back door. And I’m here all like, “What. Just. Happened.” Like, for real. Spring didn’t even arrive until our last frost mid-June. Then came the worst...
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How to Cook Chicken Perfectly Every Time
Let’s just put this out there: nobody likes dry, overcooked chicken. Or turkey. Or any other kind of meat for that matter. Unless you are my husband Josh. In which case he will take the most juicy,...
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Garlic Scape Dip
Garlic scape season is kind-of a big deal. It’s fleeting, it’s abundant, and it comes all at once. It doesn’t care that it’s 500 degrees outside. I care. My fair freckled skin cares. But garlic scapes...
View ArticleOn Unintended Homeschool and Resilience
Back in March, when (for us) all of this Covid-19 business began, I had had great intentions of journaling about the experience. But months have gone by without a single stroke of a letter in said...
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I Have a Lot of Feelings.
As I sit down to write after nearly two years of absence, I’m reflecting on the reasons behind my sudden departure from this space. It’s true that it seems most people don’t take the time to read blog...
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Rhubarb Vanilla Bean Jelly
I’m on a mission this year to try as many rhubarb recipes as it takes to find ones that my kids just love. While I enjoy rhubarb in just about every way you can prepare it, getting not one, not two,...
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My Favorite Ferment: How to Make Fermented Carrots
The garden season is winding down as quickly as it started where I’m located in Zone 3b Northeastern Minnesota. We had a very late start to the season. The snow receded just enough from the garden on...
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