Book Review: Homesteading

Kirk and I were running errands this morning when I saw the just out book, Homesteading: A Back to Basics Guide to Growing Your Own Food, Canning, Keeping Chickens, Generating Your Own Energy, Crafting, Herbal Medicine, and More, at Costco. Costco is selling it for $14.99, a great bargain indeed. If you read the original version [...]

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Food Network Magazine November 2009 Issue

Yoo-hoo! Need new ideas for Thanksgiving? I know I do….so I impulsively grabbed a copy of the current issue of Food Network Magazine while in the checkout line tonight.

At $4 it was a bargain for reading material. The recipes for stuffing and potatoes should hopefully inspire me as well maybe a new cranberry sauce idea? [...]

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Book Review: The Colophon Cafe Best Soups

Kirk and I spent our weekend in Bellingham, Washington and one of our stops was at Village Books where I spied a copy of The Colophon Cafe Best Soups cookbook.

The book has 48 recipes, ranging from hearty chowders to a number of vegitarian and vegan friendly ones.. There is plenty of options for both meat [...]

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Lets Celebrate National Macaroni Day

Yes, one can learn dumb things on the interwebs….today is National Macaroni Day. ;-P
So in celebration a total trash-erole, Mac n’ Cheese Pie, a recipe that I got the idea out of Betty Crocker Bisquick Impossibly Easy Pies: Pies that Magically Bake Their Own Crust and then tweaked it a bit to make it with [...]

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Coconut ‘Pie’

I was browsing through cookbooks at the local library when I came across a copy of Betty Crocker Bisquick Impossibly Easy Pies: Pies that Magically Bake Their Own Crust. Lets be honest, a cookbook on Bisquick® pies is not gourmet cooking – but it can be fun, quick and easy.
I will be trying out some of [...]

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A Long Time Favorite Book

When I was growing my parents had this book on their bookshelf:

It was the classic by Readers Digest – that went on to teach me a lot of skills over the years. How to skin a squirrel, make soap, ford a river, can, plant a garden…..one of those books everyone ate up in the late [...]

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Book Review: Hungry Girl 200 Under 200

We were at Costco last week and I saw a copy of Hungry Girl: 200 Under 200: 200 Recipes Under 200 Calories newest book.

I have been a long time subscriber to Hungry Girls newsletter and often find good things in it (particularly new food products being released by companies), so picking up the newest book was [...]

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Book Review: Surreal Gourmet Bites

I came across Surreal Gourmet Bites: Showstoppers and Conversation Starters in the library. Our local library often showcases books on the end of the aisles. Those books you might never know about if you didn’t see them type of thing.

The book came out in 2004 and focuses on small bites (otherwise known as appetizer’s back [...]

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