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Gluten Free Peach CrispGluten Free Peach Crisp
June 26, 2014
Heather L
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Gluten Free Peach Crisp

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Yes, we have lots of peaches and other stone fruit right now here in CA. We’ve been enjoying delicious peaches from both our local co-op and our CSA. I love that they are a naturally sweet, refreshing treat. Daddy really likes crisps/cobblers, so I thought it would be nice to make him a twist on a traditional peach crisp. As usual, I sort of winged it when it came to ingredients, so the measurements listed below are approximate. I like my peaches a little firm, so I don’t cook my crisp as long. If the topping doesn’t crisp up quite…

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Peach Fruit LeatherPeach Fruit Leather
June 24, 2014
Heather L
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Peach Fruit Leather

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We had several pounds of local peaches on hand, and they were starting to get a little too ripe for most purposes. Of course, this makes them perfect for making peach fruit leather. I cleaned them up, cut them up, and placed them in the blender to create peach puree. Because these peaches were deliciously sweet, I didn’t add any sweetener. While I need to get a little more consistent with the thickness of the puree on the drying sheets, they turned out well. Even the ones that were a little too crisp made yummy fruit leather sheets. (They wouldn’t…

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Toasted Buckwheat with Cinnamon ApplesToasted Buckwheat with Cinnamon Apples Recipe
May 8, 2014
Heather L
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Toasted Buckwheat with Cinnamon Apples

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Because I want to add more variety in the gluten free whole grains we consume, I thought it would be fun to try out a few recipes with buckwheat. Buckwheat, contrary to how it sounds, is not a wheat product. In fact, it’s not even a grain. It’s actually a seed, but it can be used like a grain. It’s naturally gluten free. Buckwheat has been shown to lower bad cholesterol and raise good cholesterol. It has lots of great health-promoting properties, so it’s easy to see why I would want to add buckwheat to our diet. For this recipe,…

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Roasted Root Vegetable MedleyRoasted Root Vegetable Medley Recipe
March 18, 2014
Heather L
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Roasted Root Vegetable Medley

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We’ve been thoroughly enjoying our CSA boxes the last couple of weeks, but it does require some creativity to figure out how to use everything. I’m personally not a big fan of radishes or beets, so I needed to decide how to use these in a manner that we would all still enjoy them. I started thinking about how oven roasted changes the flavor of many veggies, so I decided to give it a try. I grabbed what root veggies I had on hand, but you can easily substitute whatever you have to create your own unique root veggie medley.…

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Our DIY Rustic Wood GateDIY Wood Gate
December 10, 2013
Heather L
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Our DIY Rustic Wood Gate

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One of the things that was on our “to-do” list for our next visit to the cabin was putting up a fence for the dogs. Now, we didn’t want to spend a ton of money, and we needed something that was easy as the ground is hard at the cabin. We looked at our different options, and just decided on t-posts and some cattle fence. The only issue was that I didn’t want to use a cattle or chain-link gate. I wanted something that looked nice. We finally decided that we would just make our own gate, so we could…

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