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There’s double doses of goodness in these cookies. Where to begin? First, there’s a double helping of buckwheat AND a double dosage of chocolate. To add to that, there’s a salty-sweet element too. Most importantly, these cookies are for an ultimate good, worthy, and loving cause. Please read on…
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Exotic and unusual. Like something extraterrestrial, it's the passiflora or passion fruit and its passion flower - my purple passion. ...
Amongst the myriad of fruits, vegetables, herbs, flowers, and creatures in the garden (both friends and foes), we've made way for Lavandula angustifolia. Lavandula is lavender, not only the color but the flowering plants with a genus of 39 known species. I was surprised to learn that lavender is also from the mint family... ...
I'm officially hooked. Hooked on roasted strawberries that is! While strawberries are in season, the sweetest, plump, and most beautiful ever and you have a generous bounty, roasting strawberries is just the thing to do... ...
Summer blueberries are still abundantly offered in the markets. A good time to pick up some extra and freeze while they’re at their plumpest and juiciest.
This week we welcomed the summer season. With the warmer weather, some herbs that were flourishing may start to show signs of stress. The last time I wrote about our fruit and infant herb garden I was excited to share the myriad of herbs we had just added.
The Forelle is considered a “snacking pear” and its smaller size makes them just a bit larger than the cute little Seckel pears.
Autumn’s Seckel Pears – the petite snacking pear!
