February is Chris’s birthday month, and over the weekend we got to celebrate with cake! We have a tradition in this house that the birthday person gets to pick a fun cake recipe, and the …
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I Made Classic Birthday Cake from King Arthur Flour
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Making Lidia Bastianich’s Home-Made Pasta Recipe
Ever since our giant San Marzano tomato plants started setting fruit that finally started to ripen last week (after much anticipation), I have been planning on making a fresh tomato sauce with home-made pasta to …
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My Step By Step Guide to Preserving Zucchini – Zucchini Jam
If you are a fan (or at least a follower!) of the blog, you may be well aware that we have three very healthy, productive zucchini plants that are thriving and putting out around 20-25 …
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Burger Night with Home-Made Burger Buns!
We had quite the burger night on Sunday, complete with homemade hamburger buns, Tzatziki sauce, spicy pickle relish, oven fries, wedge salads, and of course, hamburger patties. We successfully found some ground beef after a …
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Recipe: Potato Tomato Pizza with Caramelized Onions
We came home from another fun camping trip (more on that to come later in the week!), only to find a relatively empty refrigerator. As Chris unloaded all of the very wet camping gear from …
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Lemon Curd
Life has given me more lemons, so I’m powering through more ideas on how to use them! Get ready for more lemon-themed posts over the next few days. I’m open to new ideas to try …
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Recipe: Pickled Peck of Peppers
My jalapeno plant (or, as we affectionately refer to it as, my jalapeno bush) has been quietly cranking out another large round of peppers throughout the winter. Surviving the winter nights, it’s been working away …
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I Keep Frozen Dumplings on Hand Just to Make this Soup
I’ve waxed poetic about my love of soup before. This will not be the last time either. Let’s face it, it’s the post holiday season, we’re all some level of sick, and soup is a …
Claire Aucella 