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At this writing one of my daughters is dating a very nice young man who happens to be a vegan and who also happens to love baking. He shared this recipe with us when he was here visiting. Everyone in our household, vegan or not, enjoyed this yummy dessert!
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When I make gazpacho, I usually vary the ingredients and proportions depending what I have on hand. The one pictured is heavy on the cukes. We had a killer frost and I had to bring the rest of them in. I based it on someone else’s recipe just to make sure I [...]

Black-eyed pea salad
Some people don't like black-eyed peas because of their …
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There are plenty of fresh local peppers and onions and even still a few tomatoes left around here this time of year.  This is a high protein salad with plenty of raw goodness and it’s vegan if you [...]

Shaggy Mane Mushroom

Cool thing! I was running in MacDonald Forest near the old growth trailhead and I spotted some fresh young shaggy mane mushrooms popping  right up directly on the gravel road!  That is so typical for shaggy manes — they can push up through concrete and then they are the most fragile thing [...]

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My neighbor’s plum tree just gave me a gift. For dried plums firm-fleshed fruits with a stone that dislodges easily work the best. They are sometimes called prunes, even though to me “prune” implies a plum that has been dried. Find the “seam” [...]

Sun dried tomatoes preserve that summery Septembery flavor of vine ripened tomatoes for those dreary winter days. Make ‘em now, use ‘em later.
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The original recipe of this (from our local newspaper) said you should add the cumin and chiles after cooking the split peas, but I think serranos taste better when they are cooked, more good chile flavor and less throat choking picante. I also was trained to always saute cumin or any of the [...]

Thank you to frugalwench, who gave me the idea to try this! As with all my posts that have a keyingredient recipe embedded, sometimes keyingredient gets confused if more than one recipe from their site is on the same web page. So click the title to see the individual post and that usually [...]

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