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Instant Pot Black Eyed Peas are a great addition as a side to any meal, they are perfect on top of salads for added nutrition and are easy to make in your Instant Pot Pressure Cooker for weekly meal planning.
This Sand Tart Cookie Recipe is our family recipe perfect for the Christmas & Holiday season making a big batch of cookies. These cookies are easy to customize to your tastes with various toppings and make a fun activity for everyone involved.
This sweet, Homemade Coffee Creamer recipe can be used in coffee or tea. It is made with 1 can of sweetened condensed milk and water or for a creamier option, you can use milk or half and half. It is infused with pure vanilla extract but can be customized with other extracts or even Baileys or rum for a boozy option. This creamer is so fast and easy to make for yourself or as an edible gift!
Maple Cinnamon Butter is a sweet and delicious butter recipe that is perfect for having on muffins, toast, popovers, bread, or just about anything you imagine. It only takes a few minutes and 4 simple ingredients to make this maple-cinnamon scented butter.
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2018 Garden List - I'm sharing my home garden goals for the 2018 Summer-Fall season. (plus, the start of my countertop garden at the end of the kitchen counter 🙂
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Like any good procrastinator, I am making a list of what I want to do with my garden this Summer 2019 season 🙂 (You can check out my 2017 Garden Goals, here) Call it procrastination or planning ahead (maybe a little of both?), let's get into it...
This year, it's not so much "goals" to accomplish since the garden is established, it's more of a "to-do" list of maintenance.
Last year (2017), was the first year that we built this herb (mostly) and vegetable garden. It inspired so many recipes here on the blog because, for the first time since living in this house (we've been here 4+ years), I could just walk out the kitchen door and pick herbs to incorporate into recipes. (you can check out some Garden Update posts here).
Above is a recent photo of the garden (taken in June), under all those weeds are a lot of wonderful plants! Many herbs came back from last year and this year, we planted garlic, tomato plants, pumpkins and squash (so far).
Some of the recipes (there were so many!) that the garden-inspired are Homemade Garden Fresh Basil Pesto, Homemade Garden Fresh Salsa, Lavender Shortbread and Frozen Mint Lemonade.
I'm going to keep the list short and I'll keep everyone posted on the next update on what gets accomplished. We've had a lot of rain plus a cold Spring which made a slow start to the garden this year, add that with my head just being in client work and taking care of the kids mode, let the weeds grow more than I would like.
I do have a little counter top "garden" at the end of my kitchen counter that's been going on since we renovated our kitchen. It's mostly cacti and succulents, nothing super fancy but it's cute having some plants indoors now that we have a space to put them. These plants sit right next to my stand mixer 🙂
I also have some dried Folgate lavender from our yard which I made that Lavender Shortbread with.
What's everyone's garden goals this year?
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