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Testing and Making Small Batches of Beers

So we’ve been brewing quite a bit since we got started. I just finished a batch of Smoked Wheat last week and this past Saturday we went ahead and bottle our first batch, a Maple Brown Ale. Maybe you’re interested in getting started, but perhaps you don’t want to jump all in and put that much money [...]

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Getting Started with Homebrewing

We have recently added another kitchen activity to our cooking list – we brewing our own beer. after taking so many tours of breweries around the area, we thought it would be fun to try it out ourselves. We’ve busy this month with 3 brews fermenting right now. Getting started with brewing wasn’t expensive and [...]

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How to Cook Dried Beans and Make an Awesome Meal

Once with cooking at home is to optimize our spending and still have great meals. I don’t want to go cheap on ingredients and sacrifice taste just to save money. Instead I’d like to learn ways to prepare meals that How Much Do I Need One of the first questions I had before preparing the beans was figuring out much I [...]

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Freezer Essentials

Last time I shared some pantry essentials that help us whip up healthy and tasty meals quickly and easily. Today I want to share some of our essentials that we stock in the freezer. We have a side by side model, so space is a bit awkward and limited for the freezer. However for us, it fits [...]

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Keeping a Stocked Pantry

Years ago, one of my biggest excuses for not cooking more at home was that there was nothing to make. I’d try to think of something to make with what I had around in the kitchen, but I couldn’t think of anything most of the time. If I did finally come up with something, it would be [...]

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