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Wilted Spinach and Crispy Tofu Salad with Sweet and Spicy Sesame-Miso Dressing

Wilted Spinach and Crispy Tofu Salad with Sweet and Spicy Sesame-Miso Dressing

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[Jump to Sweet and Spicy Sesame Miso Dressing Recipe] [Jump to Crispy Tofu Recipe] [Jump to Assembling the Salad] This is my first year growing spinach or, I should say, successfully growing spinach. Greens have always been my achilles heal when gardening. I plant them too late or in too much sun and they just bolt and get bitter on me. I hoped to learn from my mistakes here in Colorado and planted them in mass earlier and then transplanted…

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Chocolate Sourdough Baked Doughnuts (Donuts)

Chocolate Sourdough Baked Doughnuts (Donuts)

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[Jump to Recipe] I am guilty of following the National Day Calendar craze and look up all sorts of random national, mostly food, holidays. I do it mostly as an activator to get my mind thinking about recipes and things to make, since most of the holidays aren’t really all the legitimate. National Doughnut Day, however, is and writing this post led me down the Wikipedia rabbit hole as I tried to figure out if making it the first Friday after…

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Lilac Coconut Milk Pudding

Lilac Coconut Milk Pudding

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[Jump to Recipe] We are reaching the end of lilac season here. The dark purple ones I used for my previous recipes are almost all gone but there are still other variations of bushes with different colors around. I was contemplating doing another lilac recipe while there was still a chance so I picked some. I was a little scarred after my first experience working with lilacs and decided I would change it up. This time I wanted to do something fun that…

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Rosemary Roasted Nuts

Rosemary Roasted Nuts

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[Jump to Recipe] I don’t have a yard here and grow all of my herbs and edible flowers in pots and planters on the patio. One of these herbs is rosemary, a perennial herb that spent the winter under a grow light inside. It is now spring and time for the rosemary to head back out. Rosemary is a plant that can be hard pruned back at the end of winter/beginning of spring. This helps the plant fill out and be…

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Spring has Finally Flowered! (Lilac Sugar & Syrup)

Spring has Finally Flowered! (Lilac Sugar & Syrup)

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[Jump to Lilac Syrup Recipe] [Jump to Lilac Sugar Recipe] It is spring in Colorado, finally. I don’t know what is normal weather here but I have never lived in a place where it snows on the first day of May or where it is 70° F one day and then 30 the next. I guess you can still call that time spring, but spring for me was always flowers and shoots and green all over the place. One of…

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