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Family Life

Freezer Cooking Session: Bulk Produce

A while back we bought 30 pounds of onions, diced them up and froze them in snack size zip top bags. We had never froze onions so it was an adventure that lead us to freezing a variety of other diced or sliced produce – red chilies, bell peppers, potatoes, green chilies, just to name a […]

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Education

Gimme Five or The Unscheduled Blog Break

Lots of things have been going on behind the scenes here at the homestead between summer reading programs, free movies at our local theater, year end school assessments, and finally getting the settlement check for the accident lawsuit that resulted in my spinal fusion.

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Family Life

A Look Inside Our Snack Bucket

Quaker Soft Baked Bars might come from a box but they look like they the ones you get at the specialty bakery around the corner.

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Family Life

Coleslaw

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Family Life

The Best Software To Organize Your Recipes

One of the best things about the internet is the mass amount of information available at your fingertips. The downfall is also the mass amount of information. When it comes to recipes, there are loads of sites – including our blog – with mouthwatering recipes. So how does one organize all those recipes. I have […]

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Entertainment

Bloodlines by Richelle Mead (Book 1 of 6)

I don’t know about you but when I finish reading a book series, I always wonder about what lies next for the characters in the book. The Bloodlines series helps satisfy that curiosity by following Sydney, the alchemist we met in the Vampire Academy series, in her own whirlwind of adventure.