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New recipe – Snacking food
TENNESSEE TRASH 1/2 pkg pretzel sticks 1 jar(s) salted peanuts 1/2 pkg white almond bark 4 c corn chex cereal 4 c rice chex cereal In large microwavable mixing bowl, melt almond bark. Heat for 60...
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Let’s eat. . .
These are some of our favorite fall/winter side dishes. I hope you enjoy them as much as we do. EASY MAC & CHEESE Small box of elbow macaroni (about two cups) 1/4 cup butter 1/4 cup flour 1/2...
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1st Apples of the season
Fall is definitely here. We have picked our first apples of the season and not because they were necessarily ready but because the sand hornets (huge ugly yellow bee) had started eating them. We...
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What to do with all those tomatoes
We seem to have an abundance of plum tomatoes this year and I’m trying to find new canning/freezing recipes for them. On Friday I picked about 20# of the little critters and cleaned them up. I pulled...
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Potatoes
Well, it truly is the end of summer! How do I know? Hubby dug the potatoes this morning. All we have left are a few tomatoes still ripening and one pepper plant hanging on. Our potato crop wasn’t...
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Aroma of fall in my kitchen
Fall and cooler weather heighten the senses at my house. Cooking seems to peak when the seasons change at my house. The smell of bread rising and then baking was quite profound in my house on...
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Baking mode
I still am not able to get out and help with the firewood yet or hunt because of my pinched nerve but I was able to bake yesterday! This probably isn’t good because I’m eating as much as I’m baking...
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One more recipe before I crash but more to come later!
Magic Cookie Bars 1/2 c. butter, soft 1 1/2 c. graham cracker crumbs 1 can sweetened condensed milk 1 c. chocolate chips 1 c. butterscotch chips 1 c. peanut butter chips 1 1/3 c. flaked cocoanut 1 c....
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Stores for the winter still in progress
It seems we never finish storing and preparing for winter. This weekend hubby bought 75# of pork which consisted of three hams and 20# of jowls. One of the hams is currently in the smokehouse taking...
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New Year of Maple Syrup
We could not have picked a better time to start tapping the maple trees. Saturday morning after feeding the cattle and cleaning up from breakfast we got started. It was clear, sunny and still a...
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Working the bees
We lost five hives of bees last winter and were very skeptical about having any honey this year. Hubby has checked the hives frequently and has taken one honey super off and two frames from one other...
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Merkels or morels
What in the world????? Morels are a type of mushrooms which can be found growing all over the world in a wide variety of habitats every spring. They are among the most prized of the edible mushrooms...
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New Recipes On Cooking Page
I’ve added a couple more recipes to my cooking page. Hope you try them and enjoy them as much as we do!Filed under: Cooking, FOOD, Main Dish Tagged: barbecue, cooking pages, Potatoes, roasts, sweet...
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Spring delicacy
We had a slow start with our asparagus beds this year but now it’s coming in with leaps and bounds! I started a new bed last spring from seed and it’s starting to grow but will be at least two more...
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Absence makes the heart grow . . .
fonder and I hope a fresh catch up on my blog. This summer has flown by and this gal has been topsy-turvy all summer. I hope to remedy that soon and settle into a calmer routine. To start with the...
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Old taters in a jar
We have about two bushel of our 2014 potatoes left over and they’re so good! BUT, the cellar is warming up a little bit and the potatoes are sprouting and the smaller ones are getting a little soft....
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Canning day again!
Eddie and I spent an hour in the apple orchard yesterday after lunch picking apples from one tree. They’re huge, sweet/tart, white fruit and beautiful. Eddie and I peeled two buckets full this morning...
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Did I Say Canning Season Was Over. . . NOT!
Nope, canning season is not over and believe it or not I’m glad. I’ve been canning half-gallons of apple juice all morning! Twenty half-gallons of fresh apple juice canned and sealed. There’s only 15...
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Recipe Pages Updated
Fall is in the air and cooler weather keeps me in the kitchen making comfort food. I’ve added a few more goodies to my Recipe Page if anyone is interested. Hope you will enjoy them as much as we do!...
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Garden Harvest
I went to the garden yesterday morning and harvested this pan full of beautiful veggies. I’m afraid we are going to have to start watering the garden this week from our pond. The sun is bearing down...
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Homemade Ice Cream
It has been so unbearably hot the last few weeks. I’ve been shutting down the windows first thing in the morning and pulling the shades to keep the cool night air in and the hot out. At sundown we...
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My herb garden
Back in the spring I was browsing around on Pinterest, which I love. (http://pinterest.com/) Pinterest is an online pin board where you can organize and share things you love. I digress, sorry!!...
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August/September Preparation for a bad winter
I can’t believe it’s the end of July! This year has flown by!! It’s time to start aggressively storing food for the winter, gathering wood, and winterizing all the animal sheds and the house. I’ll...
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HONEYBEE Wonders
What with the weather the fruit crops won’t be much this year and hubby is so afraid the garden is going to be a flop because now that everything is ready to harvest the rain won’t quit in our neck …...
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End of Summer clues
You know that summer is coming to an end when the kids start back to school but the real clues are when the garden is being cleaned off for the fall crops, the woodshed is full and the cellar shelves …...
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Seasonal recipes – Pumpkin
I love to cook and wanted to share a couple fall recipes we like. Hope you enjoy as much as we do. Pumpkin Bars with Cream Cheese Frosting Bars 4 eggs 1 2/3 cups sugar 1 cup canola oil 1 … Continue...
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Garden Season Ends With Success
I’ve not had a lot of time to write posts this summer because I’ve been doing this: Of course we also had green beans this year but I didn’t can very many … Continue reading →
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Back in September I posted about all of the wonderful vegetables and fruit that we now have stored for winter. It’s hunting season and all of that wonderful meat our hunters will bring in will stay...
View ArticleMaking Sauerkraut
The last two years we’ve had an abundance of cabbage which I have canned and frozen. We shared with our daughters and other family and some of our neighbors. I was starting to run short on sauerkraut...
View ArticleDeer Season Means Work
The first week of bow season found me bringing in a two year old doe. The second week of the season my bow broke beyond repair but she had been a good one. The third week hubby bought in a yearling...
View ArticleCreasy Greens
A very, very special friend of mine went to Ikenberry’s last week and ordered a box of these spring greens that we absolutely love!! She started cleaning them and decided to give me a call to see if I...
View ArticleA Busy Week
What a week and thank goodness it was a cool one up until today. The garden is drying up and I’ve been scrambling to save and can as much as possible! I’ve frozen some shredded for squash pie, cubed...
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