Using spices in your cooking gives dishes authentic flavors,

for Mexican dishes use cilantro, and peppers

for Italian dishes use oregano and olive oil

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I love salads but I do not especially love making them. I don’t like the bagged greens as much as the fresh in a bundle ones. I especially like fresh spinach and either butter lettuce or green leaf. One huge helper has been this trusty salad spinner. I got one for us and another for my married daughter. You simply rinse your greens then tear them up and put in the spinner, add more water and spin! It spins the excess water right off so you don’t have soggy greens and your dressing isn’t runny and watered down. Then you can add all of your chopped veggies and some dressing and wa la! A wonderful salad! We only like to make as much salad as will be eaten at the meal, but we do go ahead and do the whole amount of greens and keep them in the spinner in the fridge. They keep well this way without getting soggy . So yeah unsoggy salads work for me!

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We find that baking bread has become almost automatic around here. If we plan to have rolls or bread that day we just start a batch of bread a couple hours prior and it is no big deal. You don’t need expensive equipment, we do it by hand. All of my daughters except the 6 yr old can make bread and make it better than most. We make loaf bread but we also make sandwich rolls and dinner rolls.   Bread does not have to be hard.  It can become automatic for your family also. If you don’t  bake bread I encourage you to learn. Here is an ebook I wrote on the subject, from my bookstore.

 Most homemakers that don’t make bread are afraid they can’t make perfect bread. Well I have news for you. No one can make perfect bread. Not every time anyway. There are too many variables that affect your bread making and skill is only one of them. So do it as a way to serve your family rather than a contest to make the “perfect” loaf, you will have fun and it will probably turn out pretty good. Our daughters usually start out making bread at about age 7 or 8, so if they can do it you can do it! You don’t have to have lots of expensive equipment, just two hands, some dough ingredients, a couple loaf pans and an oven.

This book is not intended to make you a “perfect” bread maker. It is intended to give you a nudge to get your hands into that wonderful dough. I will share a secret with you. There is something about making bread that seems to make it easy to meditate on the Lord, I nearly always get a new inspiration or understanding from Him while kneading bread. I pray that you experience the same, while spending some time with Him, He is our Bread of Life.This is just one of a series of Creatively Simple “How to” ebooks approx 20 pages with lots of pictures  ebook download

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When you are cooking, especially on a holiday, and especially when using a family recipe or technique, teach someone! Never let a teachable moment go by unused. Life goes by too fast and things are not passed down like they used to be. If you don’t have daughters of your own, teach someone else’s. 

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