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Best Ever Old-Fashioned Homestyle Lemon Custard Pudding Cake (With Pictures)
Summer Baking - Summer Memories I recently made this light, lemony, and utterly delicious custardy dessert for a summer barbecue at a friend’s house on the water. To say it was a hit would be a huge understatement. That night a fierce storm lit up the bay with nonstop streaks of lightning brighter than daylight, creating a show that rivaled any fireworks. Inside the beach house, however, all was well, with plenty of tasty food and desserts to distract us from the ferocity outside. But none of the food received praise and compliments like this lemon custard pudding cake, a most welcome and delicious distraction from the thunder and lightning…
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How To Grow Your Own Easy Mint Container Herb Garden For Fresh Herbs At Home — Plus Mint Legend & Lore & Delicious Mint Recipes
There are few things more satisfying than growing and snipping herbs from your own home-grown garden, knowing that they came from your soil and were the product of your own hard work. Not to mention the money and time you save by not making that trip to the grocery store. Plus, herbs can do much more than just add flavor to your food. Herbs have long been the subject of age-old lore and wisdom, with ancient tradition ascribing many health-giving, medicinal uses to various herbs. Well, how about we discover what all the fuss is about... Let's find out how easy it is to grow your own mint container herb…
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A Gardener’s Diary… On Growing Orchids And Five Common Orchid Myths
Although I never intended to make this strictly a gardening website, there is no escaping the increased appeal of anything done out in fresh air in the great outdoors where you don't have to wear a mask the entire time, #quarantine life. Of course, you are getting the benefits of clean, fresh outdoor air and summer sunshine while it lasts, but you are also making the most of the painfully short season before time marches on towards fall. Not to mention, there are few cheaper, all-natural antidotes to the escalating stress of modern life than time spent in the garden. When I lived in Northern climates, my interest in gardening,…
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Garden Therapy
As we have all been confined to our homes these last few months, our usual endless parade of summer fun options (or any fun options really) have sadly become a thing of the past. From curtailed summer barbecues and cancelled vacation trips to distant memories of beach blanket picnics past, we have been forced to find new and creative ways to live and work, let alone celebrate summer. With even that sacred bastion of summertime relaxation, public beaches, now closed in many places, never have we spent so much summertime at home... But before we all stumble into some type of collective great depression, let's use this time to make…