Category: Gardening

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  Cannabis Infused Five Minute Chocolate Cake

  Gluten free, dairy free, grain free, sugar free, and is made in less than 5 minutes, start to finish. Bonus: a not very secret ingredient that reduces pain and inflammation, is legal in Washington and Colorado, and is literally growing in my back yard. 1 very ripe medium banana 1 large egg 1/4 t vanilla…

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  Holly Figueroa O’Reilly

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  May 14, 2015

• A Better Way to Skin a Watermelon

  Tired of fighting with your watermelons? Give this hack a try.

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  Holly Figueroa O’Reilly

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  August 15, 2014

• How to Freeze Fresh Herbs

  All kinds of herbs in your garden threatening to go to seed? Freeze those bitches!

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  Holly Figueroa O’Reilly

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  July 14, 2014

• Gardens, Kitchens, and Social Media Detox

  Summer is notoriously busy around here, what with kids and the activities and the tomatoes that look like we live near a nuclear power plant… Ahem. The rest of the gardens are coming along nicely, and I’ve either used, frozen or stored more herbs than ever this year.

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  Holly Figueroa O’Reilly

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  July 10, 2014

• Mint and Pineapple Sage Rice

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  Holly Figueroa O’Reilly

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  October 16, 2013

• Kitchen Reorganization

  This post is mainly for my daughter, who moved away to college in September. We just reorganized the kitchen to make baking and cooking easier, and to give me a place to sit while doing food prep. We had a rolling cart in our storage area that was holding school supplies, so we repurposed it…

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  Holly Figueroa O’Reilly

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  October 15, 2013

• Growing Ginger in Seattle

  This is the first year that I tried growing ginger in Seattle. I’m kind of a ginger fiend, and I have become a bit of an urban gardening weirdo, so growing ginger just made sense. I don’t like to grow anything expensive that I could kill, and I don’t like to do much more than…

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  Holly Figueroa O’Reilly

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  October 5, 2013