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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... ...
“You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world…” Quote by Dita Von Teese using summer’s peaches to literally illustrate her message.
“There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.” How to determine when a pear is ready to pick.
Decorative Squash and Pumpkins
Over the last years, I’ve shared a post or two about some fruits and herbs we’ve added to our landscape and garden here in Southern California. I’ve been happy to learn that those posts were inspiring to many people and continues to draw visitors to the Teenie Cakes site…
