Category: Using Up Leftovers
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34 Times Round and a Recipe for German Pancakes
Today is my birthday. After breakfast, we’re going to drive to get our four new chickens. The coop is (almost) all ready. What a great birthday present! Tomorrow morning– eggs maybe! In the meantime, I’d better use up the Goat Man’s eggs (from the farmer’s market). As I tucked her in last night, the 3YO…
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Bouquet of Choice, and a Recipe for Chard Muffins
Swiss chard (silverbeet for some of you) is good eating, don’t get me wrong. But damn is it fine to look at! Those Rubenesque stems in every color imaginable. Those enormous succulent dark green wrinkled velvet leaves. Oh my! I like Orange Fantasia and Pink Lipstick. I mean, in varieties of chard. The only problem…
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Anything But the Kitchen Sink
Okay, I’m done talking about cleaning. For now. Honest! I have lots of other interesting things to tell you. And I realize I’ve been text heavy lately, so let’s see some pictures, right? Let’s start with my garden, which is a heap of righteous green glory. I can’t believe I am eating out of my…
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Slow Cooker Leftover Granola Bread
I don’t know about the rest of you homemade-granola-makers-with-kids, but we end up with a fair quantity of leftover, soggy granola. Never all at the same time, mind you. A bit here, and a bit there. But it adds up. Where it adds up at our house is in a pint jar in my freezer.…
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Food Recycling #1: Lickety Split Leftover Apple Pie
I’ve been thinking lots about food scraps lately. Specifically how to use them up. This topic is one of about 46 I have stocked up in my brain for future posts. And given all the pontificating about housewifery lately, I figured I’d better deliver some real life housewifing, and quick. So yesterday for dinner I…
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