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Mondays with Mavis – How to Feed Your Family For $100 a Month

By Mavis Butterfield on June 18, 2012 - 13 Comments

Sooo, How was your weekend? Did you do anything, or catch anything exciting? Well, I won’t go into details just quite yet, but I’d say we caught a few things… Here is what we picked up this week Costco $26.57 Guess who bought all this crap? Not me. The Handsome Husband took Monkey Boy to Read More >>

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Recipes

Recipe – Garlic Spinach Dip

By Mavis Butterfield on June 17, 2012 - 9 Comments

We have a bunch of spinach that needs to be used up in the next few days, so I decided to give this recipe for spinach dip a try. Oh my! I just found a new favorite appetizer. In fact I think I’m going to have to plant some more spinach seeds here pretty soon Read More >>

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Garden Tours, Gardening

Garden Tour – The French Laundry – Napa Valley, California

By Mavis Butterfield on June 17, 2012 - 16 Comments

As we were driving through the Napa Valley, we took a wrong turn on the way to dinner. Okay, we took several wrong turns actually {the HH was driving}. And at some point we drove by what I thought was a community garden and thought, “how cool is that?” After a few more wrong turns, Read More >>

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Recipes

Sunday Brunch Recipe – Cinnamon Buttermilk Waffles with Pecans

By Mavis Butterfield on June 17, 2012 - Leave a Comment

I can’t think of a better way to spend a Sunday morning than laying in bed with the pillows propped up and eating buttermilk waffles off a breakfast tray with the windows open. If you don’t already have a favorite waffle recipe, you’ll want to print a copy of this and give it a try. Read More >>

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Recipes

How to Dehydrate Swiss Chard

By Mavis Butterfield on June 16, 2012 - 39 Comments

Last week while I was swimming in a sea of Swiss Chard, someone suggested I dehydrate it. At first I thought it was a weird idea. But after thinking about it for a few days it totally made sense. I could dehydrate the chard, store it, and then use it this winter as an extra Read More >>

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Garden Tours, Travel, Winery Tour

Napa Valley, California – Rubicon / Inglenook Winery Estate

By Mavis Butterfield on June 16, 2012 - 4 Comments

So I’ll admit it. I am a sucker for tours of large estates and gardens. I love old buildings and gardens that stretch as far as the eye can see. Not that I would ever want to live in one {or maintain it}, but still, they are fun to visit. And sometimes, if I’m lucky, Read More >>

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Breads, Recipes

Strawberry Streusel Bread

By Mavis Butterfield on June 15, 2012 - 14 Comments

Strawberry Streusel Bread Thanks to all those strawberries we have growing in gutters, berry season arrived a little early for us this year. Now the challenge is to figure out what to do with all of of those juicy berries. Do you have any ideas? For today’s after school snack I made a batch of Read More >>

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Gardening

Gardening With Mavis – Planting MORE Heirloom Seeds

By Mavis Butterfield on June 15, 2012 - 15 Comments

I seriously think I am addicted to seed packets. When I decided to order a packet of Rainbow Quinoa seeds the other day, I couldn’t stop with just one seed packet. I needed more. So this time around I also picked up Cosmic Purple Seeds, Gourmet Blend Beets, and Purple Top Rutabaga seeds. I don’t know Read More >>

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