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New Ways to Use Your Abundant Crop of Cherry Tomatoes
While tomatoes are baking, bring a large pot of water to a boil. Place directly on oven rack and toast for 10 minutes.Meanwhile, drizzle 9 x 13-inch pan with 2 tablespoons olive oil.
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Happy Fruitcake Month
This spicy cake is baked in a shallow pan, then cut into thin wedges. In years past, holiday guests were offered a dark piece of cake at every turn. Sweetened with honey and flavored with spices such as ginger, anise, cloves and cardamom, these cakes...
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Living High on Grits and Tomato Gravy
Instead I make cathead biscuits and offer them in trade for the chores! My Dear Hubby has vowed to sop up tomato gravy with me until the end. The long, lankywhich surrounded our country home were more like companions to me than trees.
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Hominy
I did talk with one of my older uncles and he said his wife had used soda water, and for about a gallon and a half of shelled corn, two boxes of soda should be mixed with enough water to cover the corn.
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Greens, Pepper Sauce, and Cornbread: Southern Cuisine
More water can be added, if needed, but there is a fine line between having too much pot liquor and having just enough. They tore up our playhouses and chased us with lizards. It doesn't really matter which kind; we love the turnips, mustard, and collards...
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What to do if you get sent a bouquet of roses (or if you buy one for yourself)
Among other things, the book follows the trail of a crop of roses fromwas crestfallen and furious. Have you ever received a bouquet of roses? My darling husband got me a bouquet of red roses the other day! He ordered it through an online company three...
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What to do with all that . . . oregano
Salt and pepper to taste, add a little garlic and at least a tablespoon of fresh oregano.Oregano is also a main ingredient in Italian seasoning (hence the name Italian oregano), and you can sprinkle fresh oregano into most any Italian-style sauce.Add...
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Winter Fruit Pies with a Twist
It's a bit more work than plopping sliced apples into a pie crust, but oh-so-worth-it!1-1/2 lbs medium cooking apples such as Macintosh (about 9)Peel, core, and thinly slice apples.
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Balm
Light green toothed leaves grow in opposite pairs at each joint. An Arab physician in the 11th or 12 century, recorded his belief that the herb caused merriment in all people, and praised it as an antidote for melancholy.Today the popular balm is used...
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Vanilla Sugar: DIY for an Easy and Elegant Gift
Paper can be cut with just the tips of the blades, but vanilla beans need to go far back into the wide-open jaws of the scissors to get chomped. My young daughter was skeptical when I said we were going to make vanilla sugar.
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Au menu du jour: bredes diverses
And of course the ‘rougail' or hot sauce will always be at hand to help digestion. It will be eaten with the traditional trilogy of Creole food; ‘riz, grains, carry' which stand for rice, beans (or lentils), the carry being the main dish itself.
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Wheat - you can live without it!
Information from the Celiac Sprue Association and other help groups indicates that many people (working with their doctors) find they can tolerate oats if the oats are processed in a dedicated facility.Before high nitrogen fertilizers were found to be...
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Dave\'s Garden Book Review: The Best Vegetable Recipes
Often other recipes are included with each vegetable that are designed to inspire the palate and encourage creativity. Even if the nearest fresh vegetables are only in the local supermarket, color outside the lines a bit and try something new.The editors...
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Rhubarb: A Plant for the Ages
I don't use it as a medicine but I can tell you that there is no better medicine than a big slice of rhubarb pie and a glass of ice cold milk. Topdress with a ¼ cup of 5-10-10 fertilizer at planting.During the first growing season do not harvest the...
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Pumpkin Pie for Your Thanksgiving
This recipe is simple, but tasty. Used in a larger quantity, in addion to vanilla, it changes the pumpkin's taste for the better. Even if it's not a holiday of my country, it has somehow become mine too, ever since I joined Dave's Garden.
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Lavender Festivals
Many farms hold classes year 'round so you can learn in depth how to make soap, bath salts, lotion, salve and even distill lavender oil and blend your own massage oil.Making soap is a very rewarding experience.
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The Subtle Saffron: Growing and Using
Do not water until new growth appears in the fall. Each year thereafter the corms will increase and you will have an increase in saffron.The USDA hardiness map shows zones 6-8 in the South and zones 6-9 in the West as best for growing saffron.
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Cilantro: From Seedling to Salsa
If you are growing cilantro from nursery plants rather than starting from seed, try to find plants in peat pots that can be directly planted so that the taproot isn't disturbed. Cilantro rarely encounters issues with disease or insects.
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Making mincemeat out of green tomatoes
It seems like we did not even think about frying them until we moved South. Here is a link to one of those articles:Turn green tomatoes into "raspberry" jam that's fun for kids to make and eatNOTE: A READER HAS COMMENTED THAT GREEN TOMATOES SHOULD NEVER...
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Herb Pastas: Making Healthy Homemade Herb Noodles
"The Pasta Machine Cookbook". 4 May 09.Pasta machine (pasta press) clamped to table and ready for work.My usual herb pasta ingredients: herbs, spices, flour, free-range chicken egg (high in omega-3 fatty acid), and olive oil.Chocolate - Mint fettuccine...
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Cabbage: Its History, Uses And Culture
Tiny round holes appear and flea beetles can eat a new planting of cabbage to the ground almost overnight if left unchecked. Modern studies do show that cabbage has antibacterial properties and actually reduces inflammation.Cabbage was introduced into...
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Save your money: Delicious cups of wonder from the world of COFFEE
Suddenly, a coffee shop was THE place to be found. Toss 3 or 4 curls of chocolate into the hot coffee.Add whipped cream, hot half and half or steamed milk. No longer is the choice only the traditional; "Cream and Sugar?".
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What to do with all that thyme
But it's easy to have more thyme than you can use in your garden. My lemon thyme tends to grow over the edges of the sidewalk, and when that happens, I whip up a batch of lemon thyme cookies that you would swear contain lemon juice and zest (Just add...
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Holiday Meals
Let me know how yours tastes because I know you are going to make it. They make different kinds of salami, including liver salami, pork and rice boiled salami, and a special one we call 'drum', because of its 'drum' form.The 'drum' is made out of the...
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Root Vegetables Combine for a Warming Winter Stew
While you don't need to cook with fine vintages, don't cook with a wine you wouldn't enjoy drinking by the glass.Simmer until the vegetables can be easily pierced with a fork and the meat is tender.
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Will the Real Cinnamon Please Stand Up?
Mydish wouldn't be the same without the cinnamon in the Mexican chocolate. Cinnamon sticks generally have the rough outer bark removed, although I do have a basket of decorative, aromatic, foot-long sticks of Cassia bark.Many of us have stirred a cup...
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Ahhhhh, Cornbread (Cornmeal)
And with it all, we had cornbread.I remember the first time the family took me out to eat. After each use, clean it thoroughly with dry paper towels, and store in a dry place. I did not eat either of them, I had to have cornbread.
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