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Monthly Archives: April 2012
Friends with (garden variety) benefits
Laura and Dustin live on a beautiful acreage just south of town and (lucky me!) have graciously offered some of their garden space for my use. In return for being able to plant in their earthy patch I am responsible … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening and Outdoor Life
Tagged 2012, beans, corn, farmers almanac, gardening, outdoors, spring, squash, three sisters, weather
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Chai Tea Video
I love it! I drink it every day and you’ve probably noticed that I write about it fairly often as well. Here is a video that shows you how I concoct my cuppa chai complete with a baby background drum … Continue reading
Posted in Recipes
Tagged cardamom, celery seed, chai, Chai tea, cloves, cooking, creamy, delicious, filtered water, food, ginger, healthy, homemade, milk, recipe, star anise, tea
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A shake for breakfast…
I always worry that my munchkins aren’t eating enough healthy food. My solution to this nagging distress is the morning smoothie. We’ve been doing “shakes” since my oldest child was co-ordinated enough to sip through a straw and it is … Continue reading
Sowing Seeds
So gardening season started today and boy, my hands are feelin’ it. I didn’t know that your entire palm could come so close to blisters. I really need some new gardening gloves. At least the mice in the garden shed … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening and Outdoor Life
Tagged gardening, peas, planting, seeds, spring, tilling, tomatoes, tripods
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Free Give-Away: Heritage Harvest Seeds
Welcome to the first Turning Ground give-away! You can win a fabulous package, courtesy of Heritage Harvest Seeds, full of interesting, rare and fantastic vegetable seeds. Just in time for spring planting. To enter, simply write a comment at the … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening and Outdoor Life
Tagged biodiversity, free, gardening, give-away, heirloom, heritage, non-gmo, organic, pesticide-free, seeds, tomato, vegetables
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Fantastic Fridays and Cheesy Chard
Goldy, Hermione and Jai arrived with a bunch of Swiss chard in tow. I was all ready to offer spring spinach on ‘doodles’ but once I caught sight of that beautiful bunch of earthy, vibrant chard I just couldn’t resist. … Continue reading
Posted in Recipes
Tagged chard, cheese, egg, eggs, food, healthy, spring, swiss chard
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Toddler Lunchtime Quickie
It’s lunch time and toddlers are fussy! Quick! What do I make? Open a can of tuna and squeeze out the juice sprinkle a dash of salt pour in some frozen peas mix in 1/4 leftover cooked brown rice pull … Continue reading
Posted in Life in General, Recipes
Tagged babies, brown rice, cucmber, food, healthy, kids, lunch, tuna
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Updates
Hello there! It has been four months since I started writing Turning Ground. It has grown from a tiny idea- one tiny, scary idea; could I really surrender what I write to the unknown abyss that is the internet? And … Continue reading
Spring Spinach and Pasta
The nice thing about spring is that there is plenty of fresh spinach…well, there is at the store at least. My little garden spinach still has a ways to go before it’s ready to eat. Whether it comes from the … Continue reading
Rainy Day Chicken Curry Soup
It is a misty moisty day. The kind of grey rainy day that has little people gazing wistfully out the front window wishing they could play outside.The kind of day that has me abandoning any efforts at salvaging yesterday’s line-hung … Continue reading
Posted in Recipes
Tagged chicken, comfort food, curry, healthy, rainy day, soup, spring
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