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Category: Cooking

  • Our lovely plum tree is in full production! This is the biggest bunch of plums we’ve picked from it so far; two five gallon buckets almost full. Everything lined up perfectly this year. One big problem we have in the pacific northwest with growing stone fruits is the bloom time. They bloom when it’s raining! […]

  • Last year I didn’t can at all. Not a single thing. I can’t even remember if I thought about canning. Probably not. At this point in the year I was still like, “whoa two kids, holy shit this is no joke.” Luckily I had many preserves still left from my 2011 can-a-thon. But by the […]

  • I had some friends over that are dairy and gluten free. I needed to make them something with things I had on hand, since it was during my no spend September month. I asked another gluten free mama for ideas and she suggested this salad. It looked perfect for a last sunny day picnic in […]

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