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How to Make Scrambled Eggs

John MacDowall October 14, 2016 March 30, 2017RECIPES easy, eggs, how to, recipe, scrambled eggs 0

Need a little help with your scrambled eggs? Are you completely lost in the kitchen? Let me help. It’s not that hard to make some really good scrambled eggs.

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How to Dry Herbs Quickly in the Microwave

John MacDowall July 25, 2014 October 3, 2016BACKPACKING, DRYING drying, easy, fast, herbs, how to, preservation, quick, spices 0
How to Quick Dry Herbs

To dry your freshly harvested herbs from your garden, don’t turn on the oven or invest in an expensive food dehydrator – use your microwave! Drying takes just a couple of minutes, if you’re careful. I found this method when I was at my parent’s farm house where there’s no…

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Best Way to Roast Garlic

John MacDowall July 11, 2014 October 3, 2016RECIPES easy, flavor, foil, garlic, oven, quick, roast, simple, technique, vegetarian 0
roast garlic

Roast Garlic Why should you roast garlic? Because it’s easy and it’s delicious and it makes your house smell good. Roasted Garlic is a very different animal from fresh garlic. Roast garlic is caramelized and sweet and buttery. It’s not at all the acrid, sharp veg that is fresh garlic….

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Lard Peanut Butter Cookies

John MacDowall July 7, 2014 April 9, 2020SNACKS cookies, easy, lard, peanut butter, recipes, snacks, traditional 1

Here is a recipe for lard peanut butter cookies that is simple to do and skips the overused, cliche-ed, sugared fork step.  It also uses lard instead of shortening.  Shortening is evil. It’s  the hydrogenation process basically changes the cottonseed oil into something more akin to plastic.  Why do you think Crisco…

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