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Pantry and Sauces

Herbes de Provence

By Mandy · May 6, 2024

If you are fortunate and live near a spice store, you should be making your own herb and seasonings mixtures. You will notice the difference in your cooking immediately as the fresh herbs and spices add so much more flavor than store brought versions that have been sitting on shelves for who knows how long....

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Salsa

By Mandy · September 16, 2023

No need for much explanation here. Salsa is pretty self explanatory after all! It’s so simple to make and tastes so delicious, I don’t know why anyone would eat salsa from a jar. It keeps in the frig for at least a week if you can keep it that long!! Every batch I make doesn’t...

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Quick Pickled Red Onions

By Mandy · July 24, 2023
Quick Pickled Red Onions

We recently had house guests visit and as a nice gift they left us with a jar of pickled beets they had picked up on their travels through the local countryside. I’m not sure they knew, but I LOVE beets: pickled, roasted, boiled, any which way! So this was an amazing gift! However, it got...

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Carrot Top Pesto

By Mandy · April 8, 2023
Carrot Top Pesto

This post is near and dear to my heart, a cause I believe we should all rally around: the end to food waste! In the United States alone, we throw out roughly 40% of our food annually. That waste ends up in our landfills breaking down into methane (a greenhouse gas) which, as we all...

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