Category: fermenting
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Superbowl Sunday (and I couldn’t care less)
Me: I was going to see if the guys at work wanted to do a potluck for Superbowl Sunday tomorrow, but they weren’t there at work and now it’s too late to set something up. Jesse: Can you watch the game at work? Me: Nope, but I wanted to do the food thing. Jesse: But…
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Creeping up on Thanksgiving
I would say Halloween was a rousing success this year. Ezra went dressed as a pirate. First we did a Trunk-or-Treat activity at Velvet’s ward on Thursday and there were so many people there! Dad and Dani came down that weekend, so they were there to enjoy the festivities. The next day we brought the…
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Elderberry syrup is delicious!
I finally got the main ingredients to make some elderberry syrup. The recipe I used called for some items I didn’t have, like cloves (note to self: buy cloves), so I substituted with a star anise. I also used a whole cinnamon stick and I used fresh sliced ginger. The process was pretty simple, but…
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Activated charcoal, anyone?
I’ve been reading up on the beneficial uses of activated charcoal. Apparently it’s very viable for any number of uses, from poisonous spider bites to gas and bloating. The main workings of it is that even though the charcoal powder is very fine, at a molecular structure it has a bunch of crags and spaces…
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An abundance of baby kits
Well! The blue doe totally took me by surprise. Last week the white doe had her kits, (10 of them! Five light, five dark.) but the blue doe still showed no signs of impending birth or even that she was pregnant. I checked in on mama the next morning before work and then Jesse texted…