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Butternut Squash Soup
Squash's high fiber content will help you feel full faster, so starting your meal with a small bowl of soup may reduce your caloric intake overall.
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Easy, Homemade Mango Sorbet
Experiment with various frozen fruits. You'll be amazed at how easy and delicious your sorbet really is.
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How to Make Simple Syrup
Use simple syrup to sweeten iced tea, lemonade, cocktails (bourbon sidecar, cucumber-line craft cocktail), homemade sorbet, salad dressings, smoothies, and the like. It will become a kitchen staple.
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Redesigning a Garden: Six on Saturday 11-10-18
Well, it’s been a while since I shared any garden views, or was able to read much about everyone else’s garden on The Propagator blog. Let’s blame it on many (in)decisions about redesigning the garden. …
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Pressing Fall Leaves – Crafts for the Non-crafty
Pressing fall leaves is easy and provides you with a pretty way to decorate your Thanksgiving table.
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Corn Syrup, High Fructose Corn Syrup, and Your Body – Beating Sugar Addiction
What health consequences does high fructose corn syrup have for us?
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Easy Pumpkin Cake: The Authentic Aunt JoAnn
I’m gonna go ahead and call this Easy Pumpkin Cake, although the original recipe says “pumpkin bread.” It is as simple to make as any of the sweet, quick breads (banana, zucchini) but it’s light …
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Our War Is from Within
The war is not fought against unknown invaders or foreigners The war is here, it is us.
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How to Make Tea Like an Englishman
It's easy to make good tea, but we've become teabag brainwashed in the last decades.
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Is Honey Better for You Than Sugar? Beating Sugar Addiction
As we've seen many times before, the closer you get to food as nature has packaged it, the more healthful it is.
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Mixed Greens Salad with Honey-baked Feta, Radishes, and Snap Peas
This mixed greens salad with honey-baked feta, radishes, and snap peas has a complexity of flavors that you'll love.
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Type 3 Diabetes – Beating Sugar Addiction
Even people with elevated blood sugar levels, though not technically diabetic, may experience cognitive decline.
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Top Snacks with Little Added Sugar – Beating Sugar Addiction
Dark chocolate contains flavonoid antioxidants, the chemical linked to arresting the development of cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease.
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Insulin’s Role In Beating Sugar Addiction
We were once told that no matter the source of sugars in your diet, even from the sugars naturally occurring in foods like produce and dairy, the body treats it all the same. That is not true.
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Sugar Content in Alcoholic Beverages – Beating Sugar Addiction
Does limiting sugar intake mean that the glass of wine you enjoy at dinnertime is now "off the table?"
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Comparing Sugar Content – Beating Sugar Addiction
Weight in the belly is associated with increased risk of heart attack, diabetes, cancer. That's reason enough to kick sugar addiction.
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Coconut and Canola Oils: Healthy or Not?
All heat-processed oils contain low levels of trans-fats, even olive oil. But, canola oil has two to four times more of these trans-fats than olive oil.
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How to Cook Pork Spare Ribs at Home
If you've ever been intimidated by barbecue, here's how to cook pork spare ribs.
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Take Your Garden Design to the Next Level
The edges of a driveway, a stone wall, a series of flower pots, or wrought iron poles for hanging plants are all examples of how lines are brought into garden design. Lines take your eye on a journey through the landscape.
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Garden Successes and Failures, Six on Saturday 9-22-18
The blooming of fall anemones and physostegia hasn't happened in years.
