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Monthly Archives: October 2011
Get A Head Start on Gift Making
I have started the Christmas gifts in earnest and have completed several fingerless mittens and water bottle carriers. This week I started and finished a child’s hat. The one nice thing about this hat, and I am not really sure … Continue reading
Rice Pudding Made With Brown Rice
I love rice pudding, but I have never been successful in making it – usually the rice is hard. While looking for a new weekly recipe I came upon a recipe for Brown Rice Pudding and, well, being one of … Continue reading
When’s The Last Time You Cleaned Your Pillows?
I was doing some reading and was shocked when I read an article stating that you should clean your pillows every 6 months. I clean my pillows, but that usually meant letting them sit out in the sun for a … Continue reading
More Felted Soap
So after felting soap with roving (see: Get Clean While Making Felted Soap 9/27/11 post), I decided to try some other ways of felting, knitting with wool yarn with yarn designs and needle felting designs. My first try was to … Continue reading
Great Dinner Coming Up! Millet Patties, Acorn Squash and Slow Baked Apples
I had intended to try a new soup this week that my neighbors have been raving about, but when the temperature went up to the mid eighties – I decided the soup could wait until a cooler day. I found … Continue reading
Roasted Pumpkin Seeds, Just Like Popcorn?
After preserving 10 sugar pumpkins I had sooooo many seeds. I usually do not roast the seeds from our jack-o-lantern, so much work for so little seeds, but I could not, not roast all the seeds I had accumulated. Drying … Continue reading
Posted in Preserving, Recipes
Tagged drying pumpkin seeds, roasting pumpkin seeds recipes
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Easy to Follow Steps to Make Pumpkin Butter
I have never tried making pumpkin butter before, but wanted to try. I love the internet – you can find anything and everything. I was surprised to find that you can not can pumpkin butter the same way that you … Continue reading
Yummy Orange Goop!
Fall to me means cool days and even cooler evenings and spending more time in the kitchen preparing hearty, comfort meals. I love squash, pretty much any kind and so does Stella, but I think her favorite is pumpkin, so … Continue reading
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Tagged cooking pumpkin, freezinf pumpkin, pumpkin recipe, sugar pumpkin
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Do You Have a Carbon Monoxide Detector/Alarm?
I started my experiment on October 1 to turn off all electronics and lights starting at 8pm and to only use oil lamps and candles. I wanted to see if it would make me more productive, get more sleep and … Continue reading
A Meatless Yummy Meal
I love lentils so when I came across this recipe – I quickly decided it was going to be our new recipe for the week. You will need a crock pot for this recipe. Fettuccine with Lentil Bolognese Sauce (taken … Continue reading
