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Category Archives: Recipes
It’s cherry pickin’ time
Yes, we have cherries! Yeah! I get so excited about these tart cherries. They’re pretty and so yummy! So now that we have these cherries, what do we do? Make a cobbler, of course. I use the same recipe for … Continue reading
Posted in Baking, Cooking, gardening, Photography, Recipes
Tagged cherries, cherry trees, gardening, Recipes
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Moving On To Cherries
Well, asparagus harvesting is now just a memory. Today I got out early before the heat and weeded about a third of the asparagus patch. Won’t be long and the whole patch will be a mass of ferns. I just … Continue reading
Dreamsicle Face Lotion
When I was a kid, I just loved Dreamsicles. Well, I still do. We have a local ice cream shop here – a small neighborhood stand with just outdoor seating and a limited menu. If you are looking for a … Continue reading
Posted in body care products, crafts, Recipes
Tagged crafts, dreamsicle face lotion, homemade, homemade body care, homemade gifts, Recipes
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Cherries and Chocolate!
Now to the chocolate. Dave’s been wanting to make a chocolate soap. Well, it didn’t take any arm twisting to get me to put together a soap formula involving chocolate. Yum! It smells like chocolate already, but will smell even … Continue reading
Posted in crafts, gardening, Recipes, soap making
Tagged cherry trees, chocolate, chocolate soap, homemade, homemade gifts, Recipes, soapmaking
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Now it’s official
It’s finally spring here at Happy Acres. We ate our first bunch of asparagus. Yum! We harvested a little over 6 ounces so far, but every day I see more and more of the green goodies poking through the soil. … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking, Photography, Ramblings, Recipes
Tagged asparagus, blackberry syrup, cats, screened porch, spring, tulips
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HB in Five – Olive Spelt and Carrot Bread
This week our HB in Five Bread Challenge included two great recipes: Olive Spelt Bread and Carrot Bread. The first bread I tackled was the Olive Spelt, which I made into buns. This recipe calls for twice the amount of … Continue reading
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Tagged carrot bread, HBinFive, healthy breads, homemade, olive spelt bread, Recipes, spelt flour
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Soap #4 – Lavender Goat Milk
This procedure was a little trickier than the others because of the small amount of water and adding the goat milk. There are several different ways to handle milk in soapmaking. After lots of research I decided to try the … Continue reading
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Tagged goats milk soap, homemade gifts, lavender, lavender goats milk soap, Recipes, soapmaking
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Blackberry Cobbler
On my last post I talked about how blessed we are with blackberries. I will be making that Blackberry Syrup in the next couple of weeks, but just thinking about that made me hungry for Blackberry Cobbler. So I made … Continue reading
Posted in Baking, Recipes
Tagged asparagus, blackberries, blackberry cobbler, homemade, organizing, Recipes
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Blackberry Syrup and Soda
Now that the season will soon be upon us I need to move some blackberries out of that prime real estate known as the freezer. Last year I found a way to use up some of those blackberries by making … Continue reading
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Tagged blackberries, blackberry acid, blackberry soda, blackberry syrup, gardening, homemade gifts, Recipes
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Third Soap – Citrus Coffee Hand Soap
Below you will find our recipe. I’ve included the percentages so if you want to make a bigger batch, you can enter these numbers into the calculator. A note with dealing with lye. Caution needs to be taken when using … Continue reading
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Tagged Citrus Coffee Hand Soap, coffee grounds, crafts, gardening, soapmaking
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