So Bill and I are in California for the 2019 harvest. We rented a house in Yountville and we were elated to discover a healthy and prosperous fig tree in the back yard herunterladen! California has the perfect climate for growing figs and to our advantage, fresh figs are in peak season mid to late […]
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Teriyaki Salad with Pasta and Greens
This salad was based off of a recipe that my friend (also my daughter in laws mom) Vonnie shared with me that she found on working woman’s food.com. I changed the original recipe based on ingredients that I had on hand and I have to say it was one of the best salad dishes I’ve had […]
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We’ve been reaching for a lot of Shrimp lately and trying to come up with different dishes to include them. It’s a low calorie source of protein and happen to be zero point item on the updated Weight Watchers Freestyle™ plan. (https://www.weightwatchers.com/us/m/cms/article/complete-list-zero-points-foods) I recently heard that they are unhealthy and can elevate your cholesterol. I […]
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I was recently hosting friends for dinner and wanted to prepare something special. I was inspired to make a dish with a puffed pastry top while watching one of the chefs that appeared on the Food Network shows “Chopped”. A pot pie is a type of meat pie with stew that is topped with crust consisting […]
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I received these Roma tomatoes free from my friend Ginny who simply didn’t have time to can this year. The original batch was very large and had blight, which is a disease caused by a fungus-like organism that spreads rapidly in the foliage and tubers or fruit of potatoes and tomatoes in wet weather, causing […]
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