These mocha chocolate chunk cookies are soft, chewy, and filled with coffee and chocolate flavor enhanced with a sprinkle of sea salt. If you love chocolate and coffee, you have to try these cookies. This final recipe for chocolate chip cookies is several years in the making. We don’t eat cookies often. But when we do, we want them to…
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This no-knead Dutch oven bread recipe is simple to make using only four ingredients and bakes up a delicious, chewy artisan loaf. Learn how to make a rustic bread using this easy no-knead bread recipe. We rely on homemade bread often, and this no knead bread recipe has been a favorite since in was published in the NY Times back…
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There is no refined sugar in this peach jam recipe. Instead, fresh peaches are sweetened with pure maple syrup and flavored with a hint of vanilla and lemon. Enjoy this peach jam spread on your morning toast, swirled into yogurt, or spooned over ice cream. It seems such a shame to take perfectly delicious, already sweet fruit and combine it…
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Want to make your own bread? There’s just nothing like a warm slice of homemade bread fresh out of the oven. Once you start baking bread at home, you’ll never go back to store bought loaves. In addition to the delicious flavor, homemade bread is also much less expensive per loaf than supermarket bread, and there are no additives or…
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Introducing new chickens to the flock can be stressful for your hens and their keeper. These tips will help make the transition easier and with less turmoil in the hen house. Adding new chickens into your backyard flock is not as simple as placing them in the coop. There really is a “pecking order” among chickens, which is an established…
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Spinach is an ideal crop to grow indoors in containers. The spinach plants stay small and continue to grow and produce numerous harvests. Learn how to setup your containers and grow spinach indoors. Spinach is a cool season crop that adapts well to indoor growing conditions, including cooler winters, and air-conditioned summers. Given its compact size, and love of cooler…
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A window box vegetable garden is a great way to utilize a small space to grow food. Once planted, all you need to do is water and harvest. Have fresh food at your fingertips this summer by planting a window box vegetable garden. Growing edibles in window boxes is an ideal way to grow food without tending a garden. Container…
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A broody hen is an ideal way to hatch eggs and raise baby chicks naturally. The broody hen will do all the work for you, and her success rate will be higher than yours. Even though the hen knows what she is doing, she can still use a little support from us to hatch eggs and raise her chicks. Use…
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Whether you mail order day old chicks from a hatchery, choose peeps from your local farm and feed store, or hatch eggs in an incubator, use these guidelines to raise chicks the first 6 weeks. Raising chicks is a fun and rewarding project for anyone but for a homesteader, it’s also a necessity. Those baby chicks will be needed for…
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