Breathable Air

Over the past few years I’ve noticed that I have become more and more sensitive to a number of things including fragrances and air fresheners.  After reading some of the contents on various air freshener labels I’ve noticed there are essentially two kinds, air fresheners with gobs of stuff I cant pronounce and air fresheners [...]

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Who Knew Kitchen Science Could Be So Simple?

In the beginning God created the…. Ok so I wont go that far back but I will ask you to think about what it would have been like to be in the kitchen a couple hundred years ago.  What items would have been in the ordinary pantry?  How simple would the ingredients have been back [...]

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Scones and baby showers…

This past saturday I hosted a baby shower for my daughter who will be the mother of our first grandchild.  My husband and I are thrilled and the shower was such great fun, with lots of ladies and lots of chatter and of course, goodies on the table for all to enjoy. This shower was [...]

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Room Service!

Some of us do some traveling now and then and a nice hotel comes with pricey room service and even more pricey restaurants.  I’ve seen folks talk about making a grilled cheese sandwich on the clothes iron in your room but how about tortellini with spinach and crème fraîche and ciabatta muffins?…. FROM SCRATCH?.. no microwave, no [...]

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Christmas Crepes

Crepes have become a Christmas morning tradition in our home.  Both our girls make repeated requests, err, uh, demands, making sure I have plenty of warning that there is no substitutes, or replacements allowed.  Crepes it is and crepes it will always be on Christmas morning. Fortunately, crepes are easy and I love them so [...]

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Breakfast Sausage Recipe

My last post was a recipe for Venison Chorizo.  So, I got a request for breakfast sausage as an option for all those less than prime cuts of venison and other meats in the freezer.  Here’s the recipe I use. Enjoy!   ingredients: 1 tablespoons rosemary 1 tablespoon fennel 1 tablespoon salt (to taste) 2 tablespoons [...]

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How to Make Vanilla Extract

I love it when I find good, useful and “homemade” information like this! I love to make “my own.” I love to watch things “become.” I love vanilla! Vanilla is wonderful.  And if you’re like me you use more than you can afford because vanilla extract is expensive.  I’ve been blessed in the past by [...]

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Fresh Homemade Flour Tortillas

My family loves homemade flour tortillas!  I don’t make them often but when I do we can eat a couple of dozen in a day or two.  They’re great with breakfast, lunch, dinner or snack and you can stuff just about anything in them.  We like ‘em hot with peanut butter and we like ‘em [...]

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