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The boiling pot, the vegetables to make ready, pail of salt beef.Celery, Turnip, carrots, cabbage, onions, garlic, peppers, 2 small kale leaves, parsley, sprig of rosemary, Maggie (Loveage)and potatoes.73

NEWFOUNDLAND BOILED DINNER - JIGG'S DINNER

To understand why it is called"Newfoundland Boiled Dinner" and or Jigg's Dinner you need to know a bit of history. Starting as early as the first people to land on Newfoundland and Labrador, they found the...

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Apple Dumpings over Jigg's Dinner ready to serve hot. 70

APPLE DUMPLINGS FOR SUPPER

My friend who had been married to a Newfoundland boy for many years (my good friend 'Newfie' Lloyd has since passed away)was raving about the apple dumplings served with Jigg’s Dinner at a relatives...

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As a baby kitten Bibbs' baby hair was all grey. This is about three months and beginning to start "Looking Good"76

Potty Training Kittens

Why does a kitten use the bathroom anywhere other than his litter box? Is there something I can do? Yes there is something you can do for kitty. In the first placekittens are babies and need to be trained the...

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LOVEAGE 'Maggie' One of the delightful flavour herbs grown by Gardener Harold.68

HERBS IN THE GARDEN-Anise

Herbs add flavour in our foods. Enough herbs used can often cut down on your salt requirements and intake, as it often tastes better without salt but spiced up with herbs. Anise is one of those herbs that we...

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RUSSIA AND THE MATRYOSHKA BABUSHKA DOLL

My brother and sister-in-law get wished "Fertility and Motherly Love" by their Russian friends. My brother Basil and his wife Edith (her Russian friends call her ‘Edit’) travel to Russia about twice...

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KALE, KALE, THE GANGS ALL HERE !      My pun on words for kale the highest vitamin K vegetable of all garden produce.70

HELPING YOU SURVIVE THE BIG RECESSION

THE HOW TO While many are crying wolf, and rightly so, it may be good to take a look at how many families survived in the GREAT DEPRESSION, and how we might prepare ourselves for this very possible...

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Do you Remember THE SONG OF THE LAZY FARMER

When I was growing up on the farm we occasionally had salesmen stop by selling their wares and whatever. We would have the Rawleigh's Man, the Watkins Man, The Farmers Advocate Salesman (a Scotsman who would...

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To a Chocaholic even these peppers will look good.65

PICK A PECK OF SWEET PICKLE PEPPERS

  While visiting a friend one day I was introduced to a small chocolate colour pepper that resembles a Pimento Pepper but is smaller and a chocolate brown in colour. As nearly always, something new, I...

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My grandchildren visit grandpa at market.62

? IS IT ORGANIC OR IS IT NOT ORGANIC ?

ORGANIC or NOT ORGANIC ?? Well, you certainly couldn't prove it by me. I often wonder what makes a banana organic. If it is organic, wasn't it always organic?And if this is so, why does it cost more money,...

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We freeze some of this one whole or cut in half for winter use. I enjoy my garden's   "good taste" all year round this way.Seeds on my website available.53

HEIRLOOM TOMATOES PART 3

WHAT HEIRLOOM TOMATOES TO GROW ? Find an heirloom tomato seed supplier and look over the pictures and attributes of those you are selecting. My first order at one of these suppliers was between 15-20...

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