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A tea herb garden

Growing up, my Aunt Susan and Uncle Greg used to keep herbs for cooking in their backyard and coming from a family who didn’t garden at any level, it always seemed a little like magic when they would ask me to go cut some herbs to use for dinner. I would go out back, find …

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Apple Scrap Vinegar

Apple scrap vinegar costs pennies to make and cuts down on food waste. It can be used for salad dressings, the acid element in your salt/fat/acid/heat cooking, shrub mocktail/cocktails, a lemon juice substitute, or if you’re like me, as your hair conditioner. It requires fermenting time but is almost all hands off. It is different …

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Tikka masala recipe

Here’s part two of the tikka masala recipe! Now that you’ve made the paste, the rest comes together in minutes. Enjoy! Note, the first set of instructions is for the vegetarian option and the second set is for chicken from pinchofyum.com. Ingredients: *2-3 cups of something with heft for the heart of the dish (cauliflower, …

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Fall goal in action

Keeping the house set at 65 degrees during these cold months. We used 35% less therms than last year during the month of January (good for the environment) and saved $15 (good for our finances!). And this is only one month out of about 5. I wasn’t paying attention to the earlier bills but maybe …

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