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Tropical Bounty – Cas Fruit Uses

December 13, 2010 2 comments

Cas (Costa Rican Guava or Psidium Friedrichsthalianum) is native to Costa Rica and a member of the guava family. It is a good source of Vitamins A and C as well as iron and calcium! The leaves of the guava can also be useful in tea for cases of diarrhea caused by amoebas. Cook a [...]

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Homemade Natural Chocolate for Yom Teruah

September 9, 2010 4 comments

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Mrs. Sayuri and I whipped up a batch of natural chocolate the other day. It was quick and easy. We spooned ours into a Biblical Holidays chocolate mold in anticipation and preparation for the coming fall feasts, specifically Yom Teruah, The Day of Trumpets, expected to fall on the eleventh of September (This coming Sabbath, [...]

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It’s Eugene Ma’am.

December 8, 2009 1 comment

That is one of my favorite lines from the book Watch Out for the Chicken Feet in Your Soup by Tomie dePaola. The story is of a boy named Joey, who takes his friend Eugene to visit his Italian immigrant grandmother. As they are walking to her house in the beginning of the book, Joey [...]

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Beet Red… I Mean Pink

August 18, 2009 1 comment

This entry is part of a series, Recipes» Recently we baked up a batch of gingerbread cookies. (See Project Monday : Baby Shower Favors – Little Gingerbread boys for recipe) These were made as part of our birthday gift to Bear, my daughter’s friend—to go along with her felt tea bags and felt cookies. Bear’s [...]

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Slice of Pizza Pie

July 14, 2009 0 comments

This entry is part of a series, Recipes» Hubby is our resident pizza maker. And he makes the best pizzas around! He has a few tricks up his sleeve that I’ll share with you here. He uses this whole wheat pizza dough recipe with a few slight changes as noted below. Hubby’s Ingredients 1 tablespoon [...]

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Ice Cream Machine Adventures x3

July 9, 2009 3 comments

This entry is part of a series, Recipes» I have owned a Cuisinart ice cream, sorbet and frozen yogurt machine for at least 8 years now, and it’s only been until recently that I’ve actually put it to good use, or shall we say even used it at all. I always felt intimidated by this [...]

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Project Monday : Baby Shower Favors – Little Gingerbread boys

July 6, 2009 1 comment

gingerbread cookies, gingerbread boy cookies wrapped in blue cellophane, gingerbread men blue and white, cookie baby shower favors

This entry is part of a series, Project Mondays» , Recipes» When my mom decided to throw us a baby shower for Mr. Happy Feet’s expected arrival, we immediately started brainstorming about favors. I saw many cute baby shower favors for sale over the internet but decided that we would not purchase online – mainly [...]

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