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How to Prepare Champagne at Home Using Elderberry Flower.
How to Prepare Champagne at Home Using Elderberry Flower Even though this is not made from champagne grapes, like true champagne, it is vigorously fizzy. Elderflower champagne relies on the fermentation of natural yeasts present in the flowers and is ready to drink just a few weeks after making it. You can use fresh or…
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How to Prepare Violet Flower Drink at Home
How to Prepare Violet Flower Drink at Home Violet plants only produce their edible flowers (Viola species) for a few weeks in early spring. With its amethyst color and subtle flavor, this syrup preserves them for year-round enjoyment. You can use this method with linden blossoms, elderflowers, cherry blossoms, and other edible flowers, as well…
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How to Can Peaches and Other Fruits with or Without Sugar.
How to Can Peaches and Other Fruits with or Without Sugar. Peaches are used in these instructions because they are the quintessential canning fruit. Not only do home-canned peaches look beautiful in the jars, but you can use them in everything from fruit salad to quick bread. But the canning method here applies to other…
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Best Refrigerator Practice and Where to Store What in Your Refrigerator.
Best Refrigerator Practice and Where to Store What in Your Refrigerator Unlike your freezer, which is most energy efficient when packed full of food, your refrigerator functions best when it is just moderately full. You want air to circulate easily between food items. Do not leave your refrigerator door open for more than 30 seconds…
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Two Ways to Freeze Fresh Ginger.
Two Ways to Freeze Fresh Ginger. Have you ever thrown out fresh ginger because you didn’t get to it before it started to shrivel up or mold? Never again! Here are two easy ways to preserve fresh ginger. #01 The simplest way is to cut the ginger rhizome into 1-inch chunks. Use the double-freeze method…
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Tips for Successful and Healthy Lacto-Fermentation
Tips for Successful and Healthy Lacto-Fermentation The hotter the environment, the more salt you need in your initial brine. In warm environments, the food can spoil before the beneficial bacteria have a chance to establish a good ferment. This is why it is easier to ferment foods in cool weather, and one of the reasons…
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How to Preserve Food Safely Using Lacto-Fermentation
How to Preserve Food Safely Using Lacto-Fermentation Lacto-fermentation is the process that turns cucumbers into classic deli dill pickles. It is what turns cabbage into sauerkraut, and it is the secret behind traditional Korean kimchi. It is one of the oldest forms of food preservation. Humanity has had thousands of years of experience with it.…
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Why Do You Need to Blanch (Treat in Boiling Water or Steam) Some Foods Before Freezing?
Why Do You Need to Blanch (Treat in Boiling Water or Steam) Some Foods Before Freezing? Have you ever stuck some springs of raw basil into a Ziplock bag and shoved it into your freezer? When you took it out weeks or months later, it thawed into a blackened, slimy mess, right? If you’d blanched…
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How to Make and Freeze Basil Oil (or Other Herbal Oil)?
How to Make and Freeze Basil Oil (or Other Herbal Oil)? This is a combination of two food preservation methods: preserving in fat and freezing. Basil isn’t the only herb this method works great with: You can use it with cilantro (coriander leaves) and any other tender leafy herb that doesn’t dry well. Bring a…
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The Best Way to Freeze Meat, Poultry, and Seafood.
The Best Way to Freeze Meat, Poultry, and Seafood. When you freeze meats, including poultry and seafood, the goal is to prevent exposing the food’s surface to air and moisture. It is possible to do this by tightly wrapping the meat in plastic wrap and then again in aluminum foil. You can vacuum seal the…
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HOW LONG CAN I KEEP FOOD IN THE FREEZER? (Baked Food, Grains, Dairy, Meat, Fruits, Leftovers, Mushrooms, Seafood, Poultry and Vegetables).
HOW LONG CAN I KEEP FOOD IN THE FREEZER? (Baked Food, Grains, Dairy, Meat, Fruits, Leftovers, Mushrooms, Seafood, Poultry and Vegetables). Here are the maximum lengths to store different foods in your freezer. Your food will still be safe to eat if frozen longer, but its nutritional value will decline and its quality will nose-dive.…
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How to Dry Herbs for Better Medicinal Effects
How to Dry Herbs for Better Medicinal Effects. Whether you are preserving some of your garden’s aromatic abundance, or simply don’t want to waste the rest of that bunch of sage you bought and only used a few leaves off, drying is one of the best ways to preserve most (but not all) herbs. Home-dried…
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Easy Way to Prepare Dandelion Wine at Home
Easy Way to Prepare Dandelion Wine at Home Dandelion wine has a mythical status in that almost everyone has heard of it, but very few people have ever tasted it. It’s not difficult to make, but it does require time to pick enough flowers for the recipe, and patience waiting for the wine to mature.…
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Feeding Your Mind and Spirit
Feeding Your Mind and Spirit In addition to healing the physical and emotional body, total health also means nourishing the spirit. The spirit is an essential part of the mind-body-spirit triumvirate that is rarely addressed in medicine. Most spiritual experts agree that the two most powerful methods of evolving one’s spirituality are prayer and meditation.…
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Ways To Have a Good Sleep No Matter the Duration.
Ways To Have a Good Sleep No Matter the Duration. Many people do not realize just how important proper sleep is for their health. With today’s hectic lifestyle, our society is sleeping less to work more. Research studies show that depriving the sleep your body needs decreases the quality of your life and decreases your…
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5 Things to Consider in Your Vegetable Selection and Consumption
5 Things to Consider in Your Vegetable Selection and Consumption There are some important guidelines to consider in your vegetable selection and consumption, as not all vegetables are created equal. ♣ The Best Green Leafy Vegetables for Healthy Meals Here are 5 factors to consider; #01 Vegetables rich in colour generally indicate that they are…
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Reasons Why You Should Eat More Vegetables Daily.
Reasons Why You Should Eat More Vegetables Daily. No food group is denser with vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and flavonoids than the vegetable group. This is particularly true for the vegetables that grow above the ground. Vegetables provide the good carbohydrates you need and much more. ♣ The Best Green Leafy Vegetables for Healthy Meals Protein…
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Excess Sugar; The Arch-Rival and Enemy to Optimal (Good) Health.
Excess Sugar, The Arch-Rival and Enemy to Optimal (Good) Health Most people are addicted to sugar, and along with grain addiction, the over-consumption of added sugars whether they are high-fructose corn syrup, fructose, glucose, dextrose, or the sucrose from sugarcane and sugar beets is one of the major health problems facing our nation today. For…
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You are What You Ate; Beware the Unfamiliar Grain, Corn.
You are What You Ate; Beware the Unfamiliar Grain, Corn Most people can easily name the common grains such as rice, wheat, oats, barley, and rye, but forget that corn also belongs in that category, as they perceive corn to be a vegetable. Corn is a grain, and it has all the negative health impacts…
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Improving Your Wellbeing; The Dangers of Grains and Sugars
Improving Your Wellbeing; The Dangers of Grains and Sugars If you made no other adjustments to your diet but eliminating or vastly reducing grains and sugars it is likely your health would rapidly improve and within days you would start losing weight. Within weeks you would have a very noticeable improvement in both areas. Within…
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