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How to Blanch & Freeze Butternut Squash
Butternut squash soup is one of my favorite meals. Last fall, we preserved our butternut squash by blanching and freezing in portions needed to make our favorite butternut squash soup recipe (from the Magnolia Table cookbook, first book). I would share the recipe, but it isn’t mine to share! It can be found on the
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Garden Lasagna: Recipe Using Ingredients Preserved from the Garden
Using garden produce year round is such an awesome thing! I’m totally bias, but I think it tastes WAAAAAAYYYYY better! I have been making spaghetti sauce for a couple of years now, but this winter I decided to try using it to make lasagna too! After quite a bit of lasagna tasting, I feel it
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How to Plan Your Garden Seed Starting Schedule: Indoor Seed Starting
Who doesn’t love a trip to the greenhouse?! I know that I certainly do! While I really like to look at and check out all the different varieties of plants that can be grown in this area, I must say that growing plants from seeds is very rewarding! I know that I link to this
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Lake Home Basement Layout
Today I’d like to share the basement layout with you! There are many rooms down here that we aren’t entirely sure what they will be used for, but I will try to explain a few of our ideas and see what you think! Once again, this isn’t set in stone and is certainly not to
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Lake Home Update: Building is Paused
While we truly had every intent to build this spring and summer, we sadly won’t be. With the increasing costs of materials, the cost to build has increased substantially over the last month and neither of us are comfortable building at this time. We worry that even if we could cover the current estimated costs
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Lake Home Main Level Layout
Overall floor plan and layout are a really huge deal when considering we plan on this being our forever home. The number one thing that was important to us was having main level living. This image gives you an overall feel for the layout. Of course, I have an image in my brain about what
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