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High Altitude Gardening: Mountain Veggies

Mountain growing seasons are very short so we gardeners need to get creative.√  The veggies we need to grow are rarely, if ever, featured in nurseries.

Ya say ya like some stuffed cabbage! Well here are two different recipes for these yummy handgrenades.

So stuffed cabbage came up in my recent Amish recipe article so I did some digging and found two very different recipes for these wonderful hunky handgrenades, as my Dad always called them. The first is out of the old Amish cookbook and is called Meat and Cabbage (old German reci …

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3 Old Fashion Amish recipes. Yummy, easy and cheap.

So when ever we are approaching the end of a pay period I start looking in my old Amish cookbook for recipes.

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TLC Home "66 Things You Can Grow At Home: In Containers, Without a Garden"

Nearly everything can be grown in a container, especially since the advent of dwarf fruit trees.

Yesterday I made Bread for the first time.

My husband suggested I use my $225 stand mixer for something other than a dust catcher.  I have to admit, he had a point.  So, while I am a very good cook, I can't bake.  it just never works.  My best friend bought me Baking for Dummies for Christmas, so I fig …

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Who wants to enter a cooking contest?

A cooking contest sounds like great fun!  I think we should all enter and see if one of us can win!

Donut "Pudding" - my twist on Paula Dean's recipe

Paul Dean is the queen of calories.  She makes a Crispy Creme "bread" pudding that is something else.  But I decided to put my own twist on it (hers has fruit in it - mine doesn't).  This is the most decadent thing I've ever made.  Try it - it's really really  …

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The Great Christmas Conundrum - Eggnog - Good or Bad?

I personally think it's disgusting.  Eggs IN milk?  No thanks.  Even the addition of Bourbon doesn't offer it redemption.  What do you think?  Yes or No? AND I STILL CANNOT POST A POLL! (DAY 178)

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Chicken Soup - Grandma's way

Yeah, I watch Food Network and everybody makes soup the same way, start with diced onions, carrots & celery sauted...  Nope.  Not me.  THIS is the way Grandma taught me and it's a heck of a lot easier. Chicken Soup 1 LARGE stock pot 1 whole chicken, rinsed 1 st …

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Got Turkey? Make Chili

This is my turkey chili recipe.  I usually use ground turkey, but I don't see why it shouldn't work with leftovers! (I love "open a can" cooking) 2 cups diced or shredded turkey 2 cans chicken (or turkey) broth 1 can navy beans - undrained 1 can Great Northern Beans - undrai …

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