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Oh what a morning. I woke up early, spent the entire morning cooking and have just returned home from dropping lunch off to a crowd of 20 people. I’m exhausted. Have I ever tell you I’m on a committee? Well I am. And a few months ago the El Presidente of said committee called and Read More >>
Do you remember those 40+ lbs of strawberries I brought home for free the other day? Well, because the “do something with it now or they will rot” clock was ticking I decided to make a few batches of jam. Normally I wouldn’t be making strawberry jam until the end of June when the berries Read More >>
Today while everyone was away I whipped up a batch of potato soup for dinner. And what goes best with potato soup? Popovers of course! Please tell me you’ve had popovers before. Please? They are so delicious. You need to a make a batch for dinner this week. Okay, maybe you need to bake two Read More >>
Much to my surprise, I ended up with a large amount of free mushrooms this weekend. Thinking ahead to winter, I decided to go ahead and dehydrate them to use in soups later on. If you have never dehydrated mushrooms before, let me tell you. It was a piece of cake. Seriously, a trained monkey Read More >>
Yes it’s true, I am still plugging away at whittling down the frozen food supply here at Camp Mavis. Pretty soon I’ll be down to fish sticks and hot dogs, but for now I still have a few quart bags of raspberries I need to use up before this years harvest starts to roll in. Read More >>
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