With all of this lavender harvested, I recently made some lavender sugar. It’s really easy and can be made with fresh or dried lavender. All you need is a cup of sugar and 1/8 cup of fresh lavender. If you are using dried, use 1-2Â tablespoons lavender per cup of sugar. I used Royal Velvet…
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Vegetable Pepper Quiche
Before I tell you about this quiche, I’ve made the chocolate avocado pudding several times and have come up with some changes to the recipe. Check it out here. I recently pulled out this old recipe for this quiche to fix something different and to use up some of our eggs. However, when I looked…
Read MoreChocolate Avocado Pudding
UPDATED May 19, 2012 Since I posted this recipe, I’ve made this several times and have tweaked it. See below for changes. We’ve been eating avocados lately. Unfortunately we can’t grow them, but we still try to fit them into our diet. I’ve been craving chocolate for the last several months since I’m trying to…
Read More2012 iris count
It’s been so much fun again seeing our irises bloom. Every day I check to see if a new one has opened. This one bloomed 4/30/10 and this year it bloomed April 16. Even though this one is a lovely iris, when they first started blooming here when we moved in, there were so many…
Read MoreCherry Upside Down Cake
Dave and I don’t do much for Valentine’s Day. We usually give each other a card, homemade preferred, and maybe a couple pieces of candy. I wanted to make him something special for dessert and surprise him when he returned home from his volunteer gig. What could be more special than using some of our…
Read MoreCoconut Lime Soap
We’ve been making quite a bit of soap lately. Since we loved our 100% goats milk soap, we thought we’d substitute coconut milk and see what happens. We are really happy how they turned out. It’s still too soon to try them (It’s not been four weeks yet) but they look good but smell a…
Read MorePizzelle – Oh my!
My love affair with this cookie started a year or so ago when I bought this tin. I never really thought about making them. We liked them so much that we hopped online and bought several tins. And we ate them all up. Of course, I saved the tins. Then somewhere on the web I…
Read MoreWaldorf Salad
We took some time off yesterday and went to Engelbrecht Orchards to pick apples. Unfortunately I didn’t bring my camera. It was fun walking through the orchard picking the fresh apples. You pay for a 10 lb bag and then fill it up. So we filled up two! We’ll be making applesauce for the…
Read MoreCool Summer Drinks
With the hot weather here, we are always looking for a cold drink to cool us down. Whether I’ve been working in the garden or just playing in the woman cave/studio, it’s nice to have a cold, refreshing drink. While teaching this spring, I stopped by a local coffee shop to pick up a non-coffee…
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