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I am addicted to sugar, and so are you.
Occasionally I have to just cut out the crap. The crap being sugar. My body just doesn’t appreciate copious amount of it, which is a really funny joke for someone who slings honey, isn’t it? We are all addicted to sugar, you guys. Sugar is in EVERYTHING in the standard American diet. Soda, coffee, juice, beer, wine,…
Eggless Cake Ideas to Inspire
[wpsm_quote author=”Amber Pixie” float=”right” width=”10″]I have chickens and so an abundance of eggs, but Craig from CakeJournal has taught me something new with many of these egg-free cake ideas![/wpsm_quote]There are many reasons you may wish to avoid eggs in your diet. Unfortunately, in baking, most recipes require eggs to bind all of the ingredients. However,…
Recipe Box: Peach Butter
Ah, an experiment that worked! I love it when that happens. My household accomplished a small kitchen project in just one afternoon. We had a few lovely peaches that were starting to get soft and we didn’t want them to go to waste. Having made apple butter and pumpkin butter the previous autumn, we decided to…
Strawberry Jam Session
I spent a few hours at the Asheville Herb Festival last Saturday and ended up coming home with a big old basket full of ripe, red strawberries from South Carolina. That meant only one thing for my Sunday: Strawberry Jam Session! I just love making jams and jellies, y’all! They just taste so much better…
August Wildflower Mead – A Success and Recipe of sorts
In August 2012, I took it upon myself to wander around the yard and gather some lovely flowers together to make a gallon of wildflower mead – affectionately referred to around my home as “yard-clippin booze.” One handful each of: Primrose flowers Queen Anne’s Lace flowers Chicory flowers Red Clover From the apothecary: Four dried Hibiscus…
April is a tease!
I promise that I have some of my useful recipes, foraging, and other sorts of regular Pixie’s Pocket posts ready to roll, but life has been full of personal flows and where I flow, the blog tends to go! A few weeks ago, I got the sad telephone call that my paternal grandmother had passed away.…
Recipe Box: Queen Anne’s Lace Flower Jelly
As I’ve discussed before, sometimes I think my neighbors must hate me for harboring a yard of unwanted pests and dingy weeds. We encourage our yard to be an eco-system, rife with native plants and insects…which in our neighbor’s world means “unmowed and disgusting!” The truth is that we DO mow around the house to…
Let’s Talk About: Peppermint
If you want something quick and easy to grow that will spread like wildfire and provide you with a bounty of uses, might I suggest you plant a bit of mint? It is great for teas, recipes, and even makes a great wine! Rapidly growing and even considered invasive by many, mint has been part of…
Mmmm…Kale Chips!
I used to think that I didn’t like kale. You see, my only experience with kale was when I was a kid, choking down forkfuls of slimy, boiled kale simmered with hog jowls. Ugh. Just to think of it makes me shudder! When I got my most recent CSA delivery from Mother Earth Produce, I…
Cabaret and Goblins and Spring!
I haven’t been on here much, I know. Nor on Twitter or Facebook or other social media, and I’m starting to get phone calls from friends as they ensure that I’m not purposefully avoiding them. Here are my very good reasons for being so far away right now: Eric and I are members and the…
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