Saving seeds from your own garden plants is a great old-fashioned way to save money in your garden, but the process of saving seeds from some vegetables isn’t always quite as simple as harvesting the plants at the end of the season and gathering the seeds. If you’re trying to save seeds from carrots, for… Continue reading How to Save Seeds from Carrots, Beets, and Other Biennial Plants
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Scarborough Fair Maple-Glazed Carrots
Everything is better with maple syrup, and these maple-glazed carrots are no exception! These carrots are rich and buttery with savory herbs and caramelized in plenty of maple syrup to bring out their natural sweetness. I decided to call these carrots Scarborough Fair carrots because this recipe uses all of the herbs mentioned in the… Continue reading Scarborough Fair Maple-Glazed Carrots
10 Best Herbs for an Indoor Herb Garden
Growing an indoor herb garden is a great way to be able to enjoy having fresh herbs all year long even if you live in a climate with cold winters. Keeping herbs indoors also makes cooking with fresh herbs really convenient because you only need to step over to your windowsill to gather all the… Continue reading 10 Best Herbs for an Indoor Herb Garden
Rustic Spiced Apple Cupcakes with Cider Maple Buttercream
Nothing says fall quite like the combination of apples and spices. These rustic spiced apple cupcakes are a blend of sweet apples and warm spices, and the maple and apple cider buttercream frosting is the perfect complement for them. Are these cupcakes healthy ones? The answer to that is yes and no. It really depends… Continue reading Rustic Spiced Apple Cupcakes with Cider Maple Buttercream
How to Make A Backup Sourdough Starter
If you like baking with a sourdough starter, the best thing you can do to make sure you can continue using it for a long time is to make a backup sourdough starter. Even though sourdough starters are usually pretty resilient and hard to kill, if you neglect feeding it for too long, or if… Continue reading How to Make A Backup Sourdough Starter
Healthy Homemade Pizza Sauce Recipe
Pizza is usually one of those foods that we think of as being in the junk food category rather than in the healthy foods category, but when you make your own pizza from scratch using good quality ingredients, it can actually be a pretty healthy food. When you think about it, pizza is basically just… Continue reading Healthy Homemade Pizza Sauce Recipe
12 Immune Boosting Foods You Already Have In Your Kitchen
When we think of immune boosting foods, often some of the first things that come to mind are the exotic superfoods that are praised for their amazing healing properties. We tend to think that if a food comes from a faraway place, or it it has an exotic-sounding name that’s hard to pronounce that it… Continue reading 12 Immune Boosting Foods You Already Have In Your Kitchen