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Mulberry & Black Currant Vinegar & Shrub with Lemon Balm
This recipe started out as just vinegar. Upon further research it morphed into a “shrub” aka a sweet & sour vinegar drink spiked with sparkling soda. Both recipes come from Put Em’ Up! Fruits by...
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Sumac Sparkling Shrub
Dew points in the 70s and triple digit temperatures make for quite the unhappy populous. Sweaty, sticky…even when I was snapping photos outdoors my little jar of brewing sumac vinegar was a drippy...
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Apple Juice…Via a Steamer Juicer
Are you like me and feel guilty about throwing away and/or composting your apple cores after making sauce? Your stomach gets tighter and tighter as your mountain of apple cores grows bigger and bigger....
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Sea Buckthorn Tea
Sea buckthorn…what the heck is that? Sounds like some cantankerous oceanic plant that springs thorny prongs at unsuspecting clown fish! Thankfully, not the case. Actually, sea buckthorn, or seaberry as...
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Grape Soda Shrub
Today it hit 20 degrees…above zero I might add. Tropical paradise, I think so! The sun was shinning, the grass was growing. Okay, maybe I’m exaggerating about the grass, but I swear I could hear some...
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Dried Lemon Slices & Detox Lemon Water
It started with wanting to make lemon pepper..from scratch. A favorite childhood seasoning that I sprinkled on practically everything, I looked up how to grow peppercorns. Well…that wasn’t happening. I...
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Holy Basil Tea
Does the list from the photo above look familiar? Okay, perhaps you aren’t as OCD as I am when it comes to preparing the holiday meal. What can I say I like to have a plan and not worry about whether...
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White Spruce Tip Tea
It’s funny how things can sneak up on you. Yesterday I got off work ready to walk my furry four-legged companion and whamo. Two hops and a skip out the door I look up and green little spruce growth is...
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Stinging Nettle Tea
Most folks wait for their tulips or day lilies to pop up in the spring. This lady, I wait for the nettles. Yes those pesky persnickety bothersome plants that light up your short wearing summer legs...
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White Currant Juice
White currants are something of a rarity. They aren’t apt to be stocked at your local grocery store as they are extremely perishable. They will probably even be absent at even the most kitschy farmers’...
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