Friday, November 9, 2018

Pumpkin Pie or Pumpkin Latte Smoothie

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This recipe makes an amazingly smooth pumpkin smoothie. You have your choice of pumpkin pie (leave out the coffee) or pumpkin latte (w...
Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Mug Muffins! Fast, filling, low-glycemic, GF, and a whole healthy meal!

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Muffins don't have a great reputation among those who would be healthy. They're usually full of both fat and sugar. They sur...
Sunday, August 2, 2015

Broccoli-Mushroom Custard GF

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This versatile one-dish meal is delicious, also easy to make ahead, or in quantity for planned-overs. I made the broccoli-mushroom version f...
Monday, December 8, 2014

Growing Onions: Preparation and planting

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Onions grow well here in Anacortes WA, which enjoys cool but not cold winters. We almost never get below 20F and that means we can plant oni...
Saturday, October 25, 2014

Perfect Popcorn

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This popcorn is perfect because as soon as it comes out of the pot, it is buttered, salted and flavored. It takes only one pan to pop it in,...
Monday, July 28, 2014

Hummus - Basic recipe

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I haven't made hummus for a while. I like to have some sort of beans soaking and noticed the bag of garbanzos someone gave me. So I put ...
Monday, June 16, 2014

First potatoes of the season!

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Today John harvested the first 3 potatoes of the season, reds from last year. We must have missed harvesting one. And from that one we h...

Spring treat - frizzled garden greens

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We planted a fair number of quick-growing greens when we got back from New Zealand in April. We were eager to get something out of the garde...
Saturday, June 14, 2014

Making chocolate

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When I first saw this recipe , I had to scratch my head. What did they mean by making chocolate. It turns out it is all about converting co...

Quick cocoa cookies or portable breakfast food (GF)

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(Warning: These cookies are gluten-free only if your oats are gluten-free. Oats don't have gluten but the places where they are processe...
Tuesday, May 7, 2013

In the news: We (Europeans) are all one family

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DNA research is so interesting! Here's an article that ties us together much more recently than we'd guess - than I guessed. First...
Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Whole-chicken and garden soup

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We've eaten this soup all winter. This is a small variation on Creamy Chicken Soup because when I got home with the cream I found it spo...