The Gift of Fruit from Your Backyard

February 27, 2011
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If you have a backyard fruit tree, no doubt you have an excess of fruit. Share your bounty, using this easy strategy!

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Crock-Pot Caramelized Onions — Slow and Steady Does the Trick

February 21, 2011
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Caramelized onions are one of those cooking tricks that transform a side dish from meh to marvelous. They’re a cinch in the Crock-Pot. Make a big batch and freeze them in little containers, and you’ll always have them on hand.

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Olive Oil — A Surprising Drizzle for Vanilla Ice Cream

February 13, 2011
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Drizzle super premium olive oil on super rich vanilla ice cream and sprinkle with sea salt for an otherworldly dessert!

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Cookie Dough Truffles for Your Valentine’s Day Sweeties

February 6, 2011
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Easy Cookie Dough Truffles for Valentine’s Day are a perfectly sweet way to impress your sweetie. Who doesn’t like cookie dough? Add a chocolate robe, and you have candy nirvana.

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Fruit Kebabs – School Birthday Treat Gets Healthy

February 1, 2011
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A fruit kebab is a novel school birthday treat — healthy, cool looking and super fun to eat. And they couldn’t get any easier to make, with fruit in season and a wooden stick.

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Lemon Cheesecake Sandwich — Breakfast of Champions

January 26, 2011
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Make a unique Lemon Cheesecake Breakfast Sandwich with cream cheese and lemon curd — nothing boring about that!

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Teeny Tiny Pies for National Pie Day

January 22, 2011
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Who says you have to make a big pie? These Teeny Tiny Pies are perfect for a bite-size dessert for National Pie Day.

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Wordless Wednesday: Teeny Tiny Pies

January 19, 2011
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How about a Teeny Tiny Pie for National Pie Day?

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Tortellini Soup — Love in a Bowl

January 17, 2011
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A roar of approval went up at school when Jaclyn Gelb made her Tortellini Soup for the children. If soup is love, and she thinks it is, she’s spreading love all over campus!

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Starting a Fresh Veggie Revolution the Easy Way

January 14, 2011
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A simple canning jar is the genius idea to getting your kids (or anyone!) to eat more vegetables. Sometimes, it’s all in the presentation.

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Ode to a Canning Jar (How to Get Your Canning Jars Back!)

January 11, 2011
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When you give the gift of homemade preserves, ever wish you could get your canning jar back? You can, with this simple poem you put on a label. Easy!

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Dorothy’s Best Ever Quick Baked Beans Recipe

January 6, 2011
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A few staples from the pantry help you quickly doctor up a can of baked beans for a delicious, fiber-filled side dish.

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Wordless Wednesday: Is Anyone Else Crazy Like This? Plastic Bag Washing Club!

January 5, 2011
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If you MUST use plastic zip-top bags, wash and dry them and they can be re-used many times over! Join the Plastic Bag Washing Club!

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Mango Orange Cream Power Smoothie — A New Drink for a New Year!

January 1, 2011
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A Mango Orange Cream Power Smoothie will fuel you through from breakfast to lunch, and is also a perfect after-school snack. Frozen fruit is the secret thickener, and yogurt adds protein.

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Wordless Wednesday: Pie Anyone?

December 29, 2010
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This gorgeous Pernambuco wooden pie server was a most excellent Christmas present. Hand carved in Maine, by Maggie’s Farm, from Brazilian Pernambuco wood, which is usually used for violin bows.

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Asian Citrus-Marinated Mushrooms

December 26, 2010
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A light, bright, zippy vegetarian appetizer that marinates overnight in the refrigerator and asserts its owns flavors to start the meal off right. A suprising Asian citrus flavor elevates an ordinary button mushroom to party-worthiness!

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Heirloom Peanut Brittle — Four Generations and Counting

December 21, 2010
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Grandma’s Heirloom Peanut Brittle Recipe signals the start of the holiday season for Charlene Underhill Miller. Her gifts of brittle are coveted and prized in her community, and she’s passing the brittle-making tradition on to her son.

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Bob Andy Pie — Funny Name, Wonderful Pie!

December 18, 2010
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Bob Andy Pie is a silky, comforting cinnamony custard pie with roots in the Amish community. You’ll likely have everything on hand already to make it — another plus! It also has naturally forming layers, so is gorgeous when cut.

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Wordless Wednesday: Any Halloween candy left? Are you sure?

December 15, 2010
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Apparently if you are my son, sneaking into the kitchen, hoisting yourself up on the counter and checking the bag that mom hid on top of the refrigerator is just one of many ways to satisfy the candy craving!

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