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Restore That Old Cast Iron Cookware, Using Ingredients You Probably Already Have!
Once dry, I wipe a tiny bit of Crisco (or even liquid canola oil, or Pam cooking spray) around on it, and put it away in my cupboard, with paper towels separating it from both my shelf and the pan I store inside it, to keep them from getting greasy.
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Follow Your Dreams And Make A Grilled Cheese Sandwich
The portrait of George Washington still hangs above the front door, and an interesting mixture of modern paintings and 1930's glassware grace the walls and shelves.She has succeeded in the difficult restaurant industry by offering delicious food made...
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Let\'s Make Ginger Beer
The latter method is better as it allows the plant to digest the ginger more easily. The most popular region for ginger beer was Western New York State, especially Syracuse and Buffalo.
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Basil, the King of Herbs
This could be true, because as we know, people experience and perceive flavors differently depending on their genetic makeup.At our home, we don't get hung up about letting basil go to flower.
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The Many and Varied Uses of Rosemary
Rosemary flowers can be used in salads or as a garnish.As useful as rosemary is, I think one of its most important features is that it attracts hundreds of bees when it is in bloom.With the concern of the colony collapse, I think planting their favorites...
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Lavender, the Versatile Herb
Keep any unused infusion in the refrigerator and use within a week or two.Lavender essential oil has antiseptic qualities and can be used for fungal problems. I also fill sachets with the fragrant herb to give to friends.
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Living High on Grits and Tomato Gravy
Remove bacon and drain excess drippings from pan. After that day I was hooked. But sadly, I never appreciated tomato gravy with my grits. You may use two cans whole or chopped tomatoes in place of the fresh.
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Hominy
I guess I will have to figure it out by myself.Research tells me that in the south, grits refers to the more finely ground corn, and in most areas hominy refers to the whole kernels which were skinned but not ground.
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Greens, Pepper Sauce, and Cornbread: Southern Cuisine
Not just any pepper sauce suits my sisters and me. The tough bottom leaves may be removed to encourage more tender growth, but we do not eat them. We take a large paper bag to the garden and fill it with tender leaves from the center of the plants.
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Stevia, Sweet Stevia
Herb gardeners are anxious to include this plant in their gardens for its usefulness and novelty. After they are dry, strip the leaves from the branches and store them in clean containers.
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What to Do With All That . . . Cilantro
You can also add cilantro to Chinese-style soups, stir fries and sauces.In North African cooking, cilantro is often used to flavor meat dishes (especially meatballs), and often makes an appearance as a garnish for sweet potato or peanut soup.Cilantro...
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Co-Co-Coconuts!
If you have only had the water from the older brown nuts sold in stores, you probably think of this water as bitter and dull.Believe me, the difference is worlds apart. Looking at those three little circles, one can almost see a face - two eyes and a...
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Get the most from your herbs I: Pinch, pinch, pinch!
Maybe you blanched at the price of fresh herbs in the produce section this spring, or you were seduced by a bright pot of basil at your local nursery, and you thought, "Hey! This year, I will grow my own herbs!" Now you've got leggy basil plants blooming...
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Sherry--What it is, How it\'s Made, and How to Use it
Some people feel that you should drink sherry right away but others (myself included) feel that while it may not be as wonderful as when you first opened it, it is still sherry, for crying out loud!There is a cliche of an open bottle of sherry that is...
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Glace (Candied) Fruit
Try to consume home-made versions of these products within a few weeks of making them.If you are pressed for time, you can candy your fruit using a single sugar bath. Sugar may no longer be expensive, but candied fruit retains that feel of something special.You...
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Cauliflower - a boring vegetable?
And of course it is frequently paired with cheese sauce. Incoleworts," suggesting that it must have been brought from thewas mentioned as the source of seed for planting invegetable markets as early as 1619 and we also have evidence of it being grown...
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January is National Oatmeal Month
“Oat Identification and Classification”3 “Growing Our Oat”, Quaker Oat Company, http://www.quakeroats.com4 Nair, Sonya. “How Oats are Processed”, Buzzle.comDry oat heads: photo by H.
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What to Do With All That . . . Dill
Taste it, then season to taste with salt and pepper. Place the potatoes into a large bowl, then toss them with a blend made of three tablespoons of softened butter, a generous pinch of salt, a tablespoon of fresh dill weed and a clove worth of pressed...
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Dill, parsley and lovage: the most used herbs in the Romanian cuisine
I pick up only the leaves from each of these herbs and put them in plastic bags, then inside the freezer. Recently I was asked by one of our Dave's Garden friends what is dill good for and in what dishes can it be used.
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Canola: Where Does it Come From?
Less dependence on foreign oils, more jobs in our country, any way you do the math, more canola oil is a good thing for North Americans. Whether it is or not, it now accounts for one-third all oils sold in the whole world.
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Eggplant: Growing Basics and Benefits
When oxalates become too concentrated in body fluids, they can crystallize and cause health problems. Do not use the leaves or flowers in cooking.Second, eggplants are among the few foods containing sizable amounts of oxalates.
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What to do with all that . . . oregano
When I make pizza sauce, I like to get a huge pot bubbling, but you can sauce about three pizzas with the following: A small onion and four cloves of garlic sauteed until translucent.
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There are Strange Things Done in the Midnight Sun By the Pigs Who Search for... Truffles??
Http://www.americasheartland.org/episodes/episode_118/truffles.htm Apparently dogs are not as likely to eat the valuable crop as are pigs. (Think underground mushrooms.) They are indeed hunted with female pigs capable of sniffing out the delicate, perfumery...
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Butternuts, by the bushel
As in most of my cooking, I usually opt for a simple recipe. Butternut is my favorite of the winter squash, and 'became popular after Bob Young introduced the variety in Massachusetts in 1960, and especially since 'Waltham' was named an All America Winner...
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What to Do WIth All Those . . . Chives
When thinking about chives most people concentrate on the foliage (which look like grass blades).However, every part of the chive plant is edible, and you can use the bulb like a mild onion in a pinch.The foliage can be added to dumpling or biscuit dough...
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The Summery Flavor of Lavender
Lavender can add a lovely floral note to foods and pairs especially well with the sweet flavors of summer. One of my favorite ways to enjoy lavender is in lemonade.We had a booth at a lavender festival near Austin a couple of years ago where they set...
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20 Ways to Soup Up Your Soup
Cut cubes of bread, toss the cubes in the herb mixture, then spread on a baking sheet. Grate some parmesan cheese onto the surface of the soup. It's finally gotten cold outside (winter seems to come to Texas later every year), so my thoughts have turned...
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