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DIY Deli Faves: Best Tabouleh Recipe, Hummus, and More
Add to Favorites What do hummus, pimiento cheese, chicken liver pate, and the best tabouleh recipe have in common? They’re all customer favorites at delis across America. They are expensive …
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Middle Eastern Fish Dishes That I Pine For
Add to Favorites By Habeeb Salloum, Canada – I have always enjoyed and cooked fish dishes including several Middle Eastern fish dishes. Even before I knew their health attributes I looked …
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How to Make Rice Pudding for Family and Friends
Add to Favorites Rice pudding. Those two words have a way of evoking pleasant memories of days gone by. I took a bowl of sweet rice pudding to my elderly …
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Purslane: Benefits of an Annoying Weed
Add to Favorites By Habeeb Salloum, Canada Rather than saving purslane benefits for the salad bowl, most gardeners weed it out for the compost heap. Yet, people have been eating purslane as …
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How to Raise Edible Crickets
Add to Favorites My first exposure to edible crickets was innocent enough. We took our son to a local natural history museum for their bug festival, and one of their …
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Beyond Kraut and Kimchi Recipes
Add to Favorites Preserving vegetables by adding salt and setting them aside a few days to ferment, like with kraut and kimchi recipes, is part of our family tradition. Before fermentation food preservation …
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A Recipe for Luxurious Luffas
Add to Favorites “Taste this,” Paew Piromya tells me in her father’s Bangkok restaurant as she passes a green vegetable dish with brown gravy across the table. “Guess what it is.” …
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My Top 13 on the Food Additives List to Avoid
Add to Favorites When we began our journey of using food for health many years ago, I was shocked as I learned about the food additives list for processed and …
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Stuffed Grape Leaves Recipe Using Fermented Grape Leaves
Add to Favorites When we planted a dozen grape vines on our backyard homestead 10 years ago, we weren’t thinking about ways to use them in a stuffed grape leaves recipe. …
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A Quick & Easy Chicken Eggplant Recipe
Add to Favorites If you’re anything like me, this time of year you find yourself out in the garden an hour before dinner time trying to put together a healthy …
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Health Benefits of Olives and Olive Oil
Add to Favorites By Habeeb Salloum – In the world of mythology, the olive tree is supposed to have been first grown in the Garden of Eden. More realistically, according to …
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How to Make Fresh Pasta
If you already grow tomatoes and keep chickens, why haven’t you learned how to make fresh pasta? It’s not difficult.
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How to Eat a Persimmon
Add to Favorites If you haven’t tried a persimmon yet, you’re missing out. It takes a little light reading to learn how to eat a persimmon and add it to …
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Kitchen Gift Guide: Homemade Bread Recipes, Mason Jar Cookie Mixes, and More!
Find creative kitchen gift ideas for homesteaders and friends alike.
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What’s for Dessert?
Add to Favorites By Wanda Pentyon Egg Custard Pie 1 cup sugar 1/3 cup flour 2 tablespoons butter, melted 2 cups milk 3 eggs 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg 1 unbaked pie …
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