The Season For Strawberries: Picking & Baking

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Learn how to pick the best strawberries and then serve them up fresh in strawberry cupcakes and icing.

Spring showers bring May flowers but they also bring a tasty treat with them: strawberries. Strawberries are great to eat on their own, but also make a great addition to some popular dessert recipes. But, first things first, what do you look for when choosing the perfect strawberry? Strawberries can be purchased year round, but purchasing them when they are in season locally gives you the freshest possible fruit. Strawberries are in-season from April to June, so get your strawberry fix ... Continue Reading

Homemade Biscuits Recipes

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Learn to make a healthier and fresher version of all your favorite biscuits.

Many of us are so used to using pre-packaged foods that we forget how simple it can be to make some of these items from scratch. I have been guilty in the past of reaching for the little round tubes of pre-made biscuit dough, but why? Is it easier? Is it cheaper? The answer is no on both accounts. Making your own biscuits from scratch is actually incredibly simple, fast, and very inexpensive. In fact, you can make organic biscuits for about the same price per serving as you would conventional ... Continue Reading

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Recipe: Homemade Banana Bread and Muffins

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Make banana bread and muffins using frozen or fresh bananas.

Fall is in the air. It's time to turn that oven on and welcome the wonderful smells that are about to come from it. To me, fall is my favorite baking season. We dont use the oven a whole lot during the summer because there's grilling to do and a house to keep cool. A yummy treat, warm and soothing, is banana bread and muffins. We buy bananas all year long. They are a very affordable fruit and seem to never be out of season. My family, however, goes in and out of banana season. Some weeks ... Continue Reading

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