No Bake Shortbread Cookie Crumb Pie Crust

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This is the easiest pie crust you will ever make. No baking involved. Just two simple ingredients. Lots of possibilities. If you made shortbread cookies for the holidays you will have half of what you need. Shortbread keeps for a very long time in a sealed container. 2 cups of fine shortbread cookie crumbs. A [...]

Shortbread cookie recipe

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Happy Holidays everybody! I wanted to start off the season with my favorite cookie recipe. If any of you are doing cookie challenges here is a simple one to start off with.                         The shortbread cookie is a crumbly biscuit like cookie that goes [...]

{Food and Gardening} Book review: The art of fermentation

Fall is in full swing and the harvest is coming in abundance. It’s that time of year when preserving what we have grown takes center stage. Having good resources on hand is a must to help make the process go smoothly. There is no better resource on fermented foods than The art of fermentation by [...]

{Food and Gardening} Creating a recipe binder

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I have a secret to share with you. I am a recipe collector. I don’t hoard them, there are many times I freely recycle the paper a recipe is printed on. However I have more than I’ve actually tried making. Shamefully I have spent as much time reading recipes as I have following them. Finally [...]

{Food and Gardening} Seasonal dessert- Nectarines in cream

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I wanted to share with you a no measure, simple dessert that is super tasty and easy to make. I have been playing around with the combination of herbs and fruit lately and this has been one of the best ideas yet. Two nectarines, cut into eighths Whipping cream enough to cover your nectarines The [...]