Thanks to succession plantings, we keep getting a stead supply of really nice green beans. Larry plants a new row about every 2 weeks, until the early part of August. Our favorites are a variety called “Jade”, which is pretty widely available in various seed catalogs. “Jade” is a really nice producer, and the beans are long, straight, and stay…
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When Larry and I first got married, his sister in law was always making this fantastic bread that I had never heard of before. I grew up in a family with a couple generations of breads makers before me – both my Mom and her Mom baked their own bread for long stretches of time, so making yeast breads was…
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After a couple weeks of awful hot and humid weather, where no sane person entertained even the ghost of an idea that involved turning on the oven, I woke the other morning to cool, crisp air and a weather forecast that said the day would stay that way. Just what I was waiting for, as we had a container of…
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Is there a better flavor combo? Coconut, toffee, almonds, chocolate? Chewy, rich, with a little crunch? A little snap when you bite through the chocolate? Oh golly… See – if I had my way, we would eat a lot more chocolate. But Larry thinks it is actually possible for something to have too much chocolate! Have you ever heard anything…
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