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10 Gluten-Free Bake Sale Items for your Hurricane Relief Efforts

People everywhere are looking for ways to help the victims of Hurricane Harvey.  A friend told me that he met some girls yesterday that were having a bake sale to help out.  He asked them if they were going to have any gluten-free items and they said they hadn’t considered that.  He directed them here […]

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10 Gluten-Free Bake Sale Items for your Hurricane Relief Efforts

People everywhere are looking for ways to help the victims of Hurricane Harvey.  A friend told me that he met some girls yesterday that were having a bake sale to help out.  He asked them if they were going to have any gluten-free items and they said they hadn’t considered that.  He directed them here

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Floral Ice cubes made using nasturtium petals, borage flowers, violas and pineapple sage blossoms during Chef Christy's Herbal Drinks and Snacks class

Snacks From the Herb Garden

Fresh herbs are one of life’s great pleasures, with the variety of flavors, textures and scents they offer both in the garden and on our plate.  I recently taught a class for the Herb Society of America’s local  Chattahoochee Herb Guild chapter, and they chose the topic of Herbal Drinks and Snacks. Making up Snacks

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Squash blossoms baked in the pan

Succulent Squash Blossoms, Stuffed and Baked

Squash blossoms are one of the most beautiful signs of the promise of summer gardens. In late spring the vines put on a show of glorious big yellow flowers, but only the females will produce the fruit later on in the season. The male flowers are fair game then, for plucking and stuffing and enjoying for all their flavor and texture.

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Three Sisters Salad

Native Americans kindly showed the settlers the concept of Three Sisters: corn, squash and beans planted together in the same hillock with a fish at the bottom for nutrients. The corn stalk would grow tall, giving the beans a place to climb. The beans would fix nitrogen into the soil. The squash planted around the base would shade the roots with their big leaves and help to retain moisture. This practice created a symbiotic arrangement that produced a healthy environment for all three plants to survive.

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