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Loca-faces: The Real Winter Squash: Blue Hubbard

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Real People Living Locally. Crazy? Sunday, November 27, 2011. The Real Winter Squash: Blue Hubbard. Blue Hubbard Squash in pieces. Roast until soft in oven. What they are missing! You cook Blue Hubbard like Butternut or other winter squashes. Cut them in chunks, scrape out the seeds, and roast the pieces in the oven at 350F for 45 minutes or so. They'll be totally soft and you scrape the skin off to mash the remains. Puree and add ingredients. Wonderful Blue Hubbard Squash pie. My great find this year is...

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Loca-faces: Water Kefir Soda - How Cool is that?!

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Real People Living Locally. Crazy? Tuesday, January 1, 2013. Water Kefir Soda - How Cool is that? A selection of sodas in second ferment. As with dairy kefir, I am not an expert, but i've been reading a ton. Here's the single best site I've found on the Internet in terms of information and presentation: Yemoos Water Kefir Site. The Basi c s. There are a few ways to make natural soda from water kefir grains. We are using the two-step process. A word of caution. I have been measuring the growth of the grai...

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Loca-faces: Cautious Optimism in the Garden

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Real People Living Locally. Crazy? Wednesday, August 1, 2012. Cautious Optimism in the Garden. The acorn squash starts white (rear). This year, the raised compost bed is better. It hasn't outright killed anything. The tomatoes were quite leggy though and don't have much fruit, and they don't look great. I did get a decent set of beans from it, chard continues to grow in it, and there is a single tiny watermelon in development. Keep your fingers crossed! Here the white has turned yellow over about a week&...

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Loca-faces: The Who's Who List

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Real People Living Locally. Crazy? The Who's Who List. Here's a list of the producers/businesses and consumers followed in my blog, as well as contact information and links to the initial profiles, where they exist. Copper Penny Farm - Chuck and Nancy Gardetto - you'd never guess this farm is just off Rt. 295 near Jessup. They've got pasture-raised pigs, turkeys, and a range of other animals. De La Tierra Gardens. Jackie - a soft-spoken leader instrumental in the success of the Westminster Farmer's Market.

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Loca-faces: Science Adventures in a Super Food

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Real People Living Locally. Crazy? Tuesday, July 10, 2012. Science Adventures in a Super Food. After 26 hours of fermenting at 78degF - curdy! Then my friend said, "They sell kefir. I've always wanted to try that. Do you want to share some? I'd heard of kefir, but really had no knowledge of what it really was. I thought it was Indian yogurt (wrong). What the heck, I thought, after all, I'm living out of the box here! Our hopes were dashed in seconds though, when the boy said they had no kefir available.

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Loca-faces: Foraging: It's Time For Wild Chives

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Real People Living Locally. Crazy? Wednesday, April 6, 2011. Foraging: It's Time For Wild Chives. Wild chives emerge in the woods. Wild chives close up - cut them, they smell like onions. Garlic mustard just emerging - this is an invasive culinary herb. Wild asparagus is also coming up soon. I have never harvested it before; it doesn't seem to grown on our property or around us, but it is supposed to be delicious. It is used like cultivated asparagus. Did you know that wild daylilies are edible? Plants c...

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Tidings of Comfort and Joy: August 2012

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Tidings of Comfort and Joy. Journal of everyday, extraordinary things. Friday, August 03, 2012. Friday Five: 'Tis a Gift to Be Simple. Photo by my niece, Laura Nichols, the day I let her use my camera! Today's RevGalBlogPals Friday Five. Is courtesy of kathrynzj who is coming off of a week of vacation and is interested in streamlining her life. She invites us to respond to this question:. What are 5 things you do or things you have bought that have made your life simpler or easier? That my sister gave me.

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Tidings of Comfort and Joy: Friday Five: Deep Breath

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Tidings of Comfort and Joy. Journal of everyday, extraordinary things. Friday, March 22, 2013. Friday Five: Deep Breath. View of the NOLA skyline while walking at City Park. Holy Week is catching up to me and breathing down my neck. For this pastor, there are bulletins to get ready, sermons to prep, and details upon details that are still hanging. Even this week, this congregation is moving ahead with launching a new ministry: Welcome, Men's Breakfast Fellowship! Thank you, Deb, for this one. Love your s...

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Tidings of Comfort and Joy: Sunday Sermon: Unwrapping Gifts

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Tidings of Comfort and Joy. Journal of everyday, extraordinary things. Sunday, May 26, 2013. Sunday Sermon: Unwrapping Gifts. Favorite Things: Unwrapping Gifts. Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31; Romans 5:1-5: John 16:12-15. You know that survey you all had the chance to fill out for the past month? You saw the survey questions. Why, there might be ice cream this summer. There could be dancing. Who knows? Do you like surprises? Is one of your favorite things unwrapping presents? Did you get what you wanted? Only the...