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How To Keep Strawberries From Going Moldy
Stop throwing away your strawberries! Pinterest has a never-ending scroll of kitchen hacks and I’ve seen the one for the strawberries in my facebook feed more than once. Often I’ll gufaw at “hacks” that simply aren’t useful or seem to be mostly myth. But I wondered about the vinegar-dunked strawberries. Would they taste like vinegar? […]
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5 Jet Lag Busting Remedies- How I Travel Like A Natural
Does long travel flatline your energy and make you cry (just a little) for your bed and bathroom at home? Travel is rough on your body. I feel you there. Travel is my favorite (can anything top the adventure of a new city, culture, and the thrill of navigating through somewhere where you don’t speak […]
Homemade Almond Butter + Fruit Toast
Maybe you are thinking “making almond butter is crazy speak — why would I go to the effort of making almond butter when I can buy that goodness in bulk at Costco or in the bulk section from the grinder machines.” I hear you. I love and buy from those machines too, but then one […]
Scrap Stock: Save The Soup You’ve Been Throwing Away
Many years ago I read a cookbook that I’ve since forgotten that casually mentioned getting serious about stock by saving food scraps to make scrap stock. Young and strapped with a teeny grocery budget, I jumped in, eager to make what I had go further. I launched not as interested in flavor as I was […]
3 Simple Steps to Modify Any Recipe + Winter White Salad
I wanted to make the white salad this week- the stand-out favorite from my Fall 20/20 Collection (recipe and my seasonal swaps at the bottom of the post). But it’s winter I wanted something that fit the season- produce and temperature outside (it’s a bit blustery this week). So I rolled up my sleeves to […]
Is Butter Bad?
Is butter bad? Good question. Butter is on my Winter 20/20 List, but I confess, I hesitated with that choice. Butter isn’t bad, but it gets a bad rap, and often far worse than it deserves. It wasn’t butter’s fault for being so delicious, it was some funky science. It’s funky science still that leads […]
Lemon Bar Bites or Homemade Larabars
What’s the emergency snack in your bag? I try to pack fruit, but sometimes it’s fragile, squishes easily, and has a short bag life. Yeah, I’ve cleaned out a funky fruited purse before. It was bad. Nasty, moldy, bad. Yick. Now, I try to keep the fruit where I can see it, and […]
