A couple months ago I posted a blog on Food Safety and the Slow Cooker. I still love my slow cooker, and with the weather warming up and more people at home to feed the slow cooker is a wonderful appliance to help make our lives easier. But how many times have you wanted to [...]
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Memorial Day signals the start of summer in most households. This brings to mind picnics and cookouts and local fresh fruits and vegetables. This year, consumers have purchased more than 10 times the usual amount of seeds to plant. This means LOTS more home grown vegetables! Fresh spinach, lettuce, beets, and green beans—oh my. Are [...]
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Textured Vegetable Protein, oftentimes called TVP®, is a pantry staple in my kitchen. The inspiration for writing about TVP® came when my husband found a bag of it on the counter and exclaimed, “What is that!?!?” I explained it’s what he happily gobbled down in his tacos last week and in his spaghetti tonight. I [...]
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My due date is only two months away; let the “nesting” begin. Nesting is an uncontrollable urge to clean, organize, and tie up loose ends to old projects brought on by a desire to prepare a “nest” for the new baby. Understandably my unique and seemingly irrational behaviors have been driving my poor husband nuts.
As [...]
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