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creating, enjoying, and living a simpler life!
creating, enjoying, and living a simpler life!
 Do you have fresh peppermint growing in your yard? If you do then you might be frustrated with how quickly it grows and spreads. How about finding a positive in all that spreading peppermint? It is edible after all and there are MANY ways you can use it to your advantage! Don't have peppermint in your yard? You can also buy it fresh or dried in the store but you would be best served to just get one small plant at the store or from a friend and plant it in a sunny location in your yard. Pretty soon you will have a lot more growing and you can take advantage of the benefits every day too!
Picking & Storing the Leaves:
A few ways (my favorites) to use Peppermint:
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 You won't believe how simple it really is! Watch the video and find out :-)
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 Waste not want not.....that is the bottom line for this recipe post! Why? One, because we have 5 chickens and an abundance of fresh eggs that needed to be used to make room in our refrigerator, and two, because it was time to harvest our garlic scapes and why waste them when we can eat them! Simply copy them down or click on the button below the recipes to download the pdf file and print one sheet of 8 1/2 x 11 cardstock paper. Then cut out each of the 4 x 6 inch recipe cards. They always come two recipes per sheet in an effort to not waste paper! Visit my Recipes Page to view or print out previous recipes (pdf files) or to download a FREE 4 x 6 Recipe Card Template (.dox file) for your own recipes! You can also check out my past Recipe Blog Posts here! Enjoy!  FYI: there are always two recipes because I do not want to waste paper! Thank you for visiting! Please 'like' us on Facebook or join our mailing list so you never miss out on a blog post! Also check out our Pinterest Recipes Board for more great recipes! Sincerely,
In the fall we posted about planting our garlic. It currently continues to grow however it has recently grown curling flower buds called garlic scapes and it's time to harvest and eat them!  A garlic scape is the flower bud and attached curling stem of the hard-necked garlic plant. The entire curl and bud are removed around late June before it flowers and while it is still curled to promote larger bulb growth. When you see it curled, remove the entire stem and bud as far down (close to the leaves) as possible without breaking the leaves.  Harvested Curling Garlic Scapes The garlic scape smells like garlic, tastes like garlic, seems like a scallion, has a texture similar to asparagus, and can be eaten in any way that garlic itself is eaten! In my opinion, it would be a shame to waste the garlic scapes, especially since they are considered a delicacy in other countries! Bonus for my family :-)  One Curling Garlic Scape Some recipes for cooking garlic scapes:  Parmesan Oven Roasted Garlic Scapes Too much to eat all in one day? No worries, you can store the garlic scapes in a paper or produce bag in the refrigerator for several weeks to a month! If you have a lot that you know you won't eat within the month (like me) then you can freeze them as well! You can choose to blanch them or not, however I just put them in quart size freezer bags, suck out as much air as possible, and put them in the freezer. So simple!!! Stay tuned for our next post "Harvesting Garlic." Follow us on social media or e-mail us so you don't miss it! Thank you for visiting :-) Sincerely,
Have a small kitchen? Are you limited on space for storage? Our kitchen is 9 x 7 and yes, that is pretty small for us (it is actually smaller because its really 5 x 3 attached to a 7 x 6 for a total square footage of 57 square feet)! It's because it is so small that we had to come up with some simple ways to make the limited space work the best for us! Every one of the pictures below was taken in our little kitchen. Under the pictures is a list of all the ways we use to make the most of our minimal kitchen space! Maybe some will work for you :-)
Kitchen space saving ideas:
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 What a quick and simple way to create a small raised bed garden anywhere! I have to be honest, this is not my idea. It is actually my daughters and I couldn't be more proud of her! She rents to live on Fire Island each summer so she has never been able to have her own garden. However, this year she came up with an ingenious idea: repurposing old dresser drawers into small raised garden beds! So simple! What did she do?
What makes this idea so awesome:
And of course the absolute best part of all this? My daughter will be eating organic home-grown vegetables and herbs all summer long :-) Please follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest and/or Google Plus! Thanks for visiting :-) Sincerely,
 Don't just throw it out...repurpose it! Repurposing is way better than needlessly adding to landfills. Why not find another way to use something? Today's something for me is ethernet cable. You know, that wire that is used to transfer internet into your home and then between the router and various computers, printers, and such? What do you do with it when it's replaced with better stuff? Here's what I did...
Check out more repurposing ideas on our Pinterest Repurposing Board! Also check out our Repurposing Blog Post from 9/30/15! Thanks for visiting! Like what you see? Then please consider following us for more interesting ideas that help in creating and living a simpler life for you and your loved ones! Sincerely,
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Hi there! I'm Kathie, the author behind Creating A Simpler Life blog. I'm excited to share our longterm projects (and planning) toward building our future retirement homestead in the Adirondack Mountains of New York. In the meantime I will be sharing all the other little things we do that are part of creating our simpler life!
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