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July 2020 Vegetable

Three Bean Salad

My Friend Nancy made this three bean salad.

Ingredients are 4 cups of black eyed peas (cooked or canned).

1 can of rinsed and drained kidney beans and also green beans.

2 cloves of minced garlic-1/4 cup diced onion-1/2 cup apple cider vinegar.

4 Tablespoons of honey-1/4 cup of olive oil-1 tsp. of salt and also pepper. 1/4 tsp. red pepper flakes. You could add red and green bell pepper but as I can’t eat them raw’ she left those out for me.

In a medium bowl combine all spices and honey and vinegar. Combine all three beans with olive oil and onion and then add all together in one bowl. Refridgerate for 4 hours before serving. This is a great salad to take along to an event!

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July 2020 Recipe

Coconut Extract

You will need plenty of patience for this recipe. But I am sure it will be well worth the wait!

Ingredients will be, a bottle of vodka. A fifth I guess you would call the size. And you will need an unsweet bag of coconut flakes.

Use a quart jar and fill it full with the coconut, then fill to within 1 inch from the top of the jar with the vodka. Put a lid on it and store under the sink in a dark place for 3 to 6 months, while shaking the jar about 4 times a week.

I did tell you that this recipe would require patience did I not! But the end result will be forever premium coconut extract as you decant what you need into a small bottle. Now you smell the extract before you re-fill with vodka again to test to see if it is rancid.An (off smell) as there is oil in coconut. It should not be bad, but if it is pour out and make a new batch.

This will last for years. Love and Hugs from me to you. Please share my blog around even with Spanish or other Nationalities as they can translate to their language so they can also have these recipes. Thank you.

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This will be opened in March 2021. I will let you know then, how it tastes and smells. The first thing made will be a luscious coconut pie.

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July 2020 Pest Control

Repel The Flies

This is a very interesting topic that I just came across on the internet from Julie Morgan on Facebook.

To repel flies all you have to do is fill a quart ziplock baggie half-way with water and then drop in 7 pennies The next step is to nail this bag somewhere up high on a window sill or a barn wall’ Even in a restaurant where-ever you have a fly problem. This would be great at a picnic!

This causes the flies to see a prism and they can not stand to be near it! Thanks to Julie Morgan for this tip.

Lets keep the flies outside where they belong. https://www.wisdomforpennies.com
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Canning July 2020

Safety First

Hello everyone. I hope this night finds you with peace and contentment. As I was sitting here on this nice cool Florida night, I was thinking about sharing this post about pressure canning safely. I know that there are very many people out there that are scared to death to even begin to try out a pressure canner or pressure cooker for that matter.

You are really missing out if you don’t have one of these. You can take a roast right out of the freezer and pressure cook it in 25-30 minutes. No defrosting time at all. As for the pressure canner(it is way bigger). You have the world open up to you on canning just about anything that you can buy in the store in a can and that saying a whole lot of stuff and if you follow directions to a T. Then your food will be safe for years.

Here in this post, I talk about problems and how to fix them for your maximum safety. And all will always be safe if you keep watch for these problems and correct it by following directions’ step by step.

The biggest mistake that you could ever make is to open the cooker while it is hot! It will explode. So be sure it is cooled down to zero and that there is no steam left. Only then can you open the pot and aim it away from you as there will be steam coming off the water in the pot. And you don’t want that to burn you.

I am going to talk about my hard day yesterday with all of you as it is a subject that needs to be discussed for safety. Pressure canning is an awesome knowledge to have as you can do boundless canning with one.

As I was trying to can my jars of homemade chili yesterday I had a lot of trouble with the number dial not moving off zero and going up to the 10 pounds of pressure. If you have been following my blog then you already know that it takes a lot of time just for the canner to begin letting out steam on medium temperature setting’ so that you are slowly building up pressure. If too fast and higher dial setting then you will lose all the liquid from your jars.

So you wait and watch for the steam to build up so that you can now put the weighted jiggly thing on top of the canner. Then you wait some more and wait again. When the number dial gets up to 10 lbs of pressure(or the recommended pressure) for what you are canning then you turn on your timer. And lower the stove dial to 3. But you have to keep adjusting if the pressure gets too low or too high. My chili was 90 minutes at 10 lbs of pressure.

Wouldn’t you know it’ my dial never moved off zero in 15 minutes of time with me constantly checking on it. So I had to turn it off and walk away for an hour before I could open it safely. I flipped the rubber sealing band around the other way and stuck a toothpick in the holes of every pressure release dial and started out again.

Well I went through a whole lot of time again and went through each step to get to the steam coming out the vent. And putting the jiggy thing on. Well after 15 minutes’ the number dial gauge still sat on zero again. So I turned it off again and left it for an hour to cool down so that I could open it again.

This time I used quite a few toothpicks on every vent hole again. I noticed that there was a calcium build up on most of them and a few had black gunk(nasty) in the tiny vents. When you can some liquid always escapes from the jars. I startred running toothpicks through all vents. And I began the whole routine again but I also added more water to the pot that matched the temperature of hot water in the pot’ as my canning jars of chili have been in there this whole time.

So here I go for the third time and not to say that I was a little bit aggravated. Everything went as planned and worked like a charm!

Most people are scared to death of a pressure canner because years ago if used incorrectly and opened while still steaming hot then they have exploded I have heard of a very few times. But If you follow safety rules like I have described here then you will always be safe and open to a world of canning adventures! Keep viewing my blog for my chili how to canning and photos.

PS. My very favorite thing to can is chili in quart jars! No more chili from the store from me. It has to taste like the best pot of chili that you have ever had. That’s good chili and more meaty than a drive through.

Thanks for visiting and do please come back soon or stay awhile and read some more posts if you will.

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June 2020

Powdered Sugar

If you happen to run out of powdered sugar and do not want to go out to the grocery store, then all you need to do is put your amount of sugar needed into the food processor or blender and grind it into powdered sugar. Let it grind a little while so that you do not have any sugar granules left over. As always love and hugs to each and every-one of you from me to you. https://www.wisdomforpennies.com

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June 2020

Honey Mustard Recipe

This is an awesome for chicken nuggets.

Just add 1/2 cup of mayonnaise to a small bowl and add in 2 tablespoons of mustard and 3 tablespoons of honey. You just whisk this together and serve. https://www.wisdomforpennies.com

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Dairy

Keeping Milk Fresh

I found this little idea last year in 2019 and I have used it ever since!

Does your gallon of milk spoil before you can use it all up? Well, mine used to all of the time’ until I learned this handy tip.

This is the tip. I smell all foods that go through my kitchen so it is only natural for me to smell my milk before using for anything. So just as you smell it or taste it going slightly off this is what extends your milk’s life for another 5 days of time to use it up.

I sprinkle into my milk jug about 10 little salt grains (any salt will do) I only use pink Himalayan salt as it does not contain chemicals in it. This does not make the milk taste salty at all. And it extends it’s life so that you can use the milk for anything you need it for.

This sounds crazy but it really works! #Dairy #Tips

PS. My milk has June 16th as the expiration date and today is June 27th and the milk in the jug is still fresh as when I bought it! So that’s 11 days of extension.

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June 2020 On-The Cheap Vegetable

Dehydrating

Red potatoes with box grater.

I picked up two $1 bags of red potatoes na decided to deydrate them for dry storage as I an running out of room for my freezer storage and now my canning jar storage room. I am addicted to storing food in so many different ways like our Ancestors used to do! This just draws me closer to the old ways of preparing and storing the garden harvest as our past generations used to for survival. If you can understand that’it is just a bond that pulls me to the past ways of our families.

First you wash the red potatoes from all dirt. You may need a scrub brush if fresh from the garden.Mine were from a produce store so it was not too hard to get them cleaned up. Next you use the grater on the slicer side as you want circle cut potatoes. Slice 8 medium sized red potatoes and put ito a bowl of water that covers them.

Have a big pot of boiling water ready so that after you drain water off of potatoes’ you can drop into boiling water for 5 minutes only’ then pour into a strainer to drain and cool a little while. Now arrange as single file as you can on your dehydrator trays’ some overlapping is ok. Plugin and dry for 3 hours while rotating trays around one time. These have to be completely dry with no dampness anywhere.

Slicer side of grater.
All this from 8 medium red potatoes.

Now store these in a gallon freezer baggie. I did two times of dehydrating for 16 potatoes total to fill this bag up. When I order myself some oxygen absorbers I will put a few in each gallon baggie and then store baggie in a tote so no critters can get in to them and these will last 30 years.

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Frugal June 2020 Vegetable

Vegetables are awesome this way!

I found a bag of green beans and as usual I adore being frugal in all things, so they only cost a dollar in the mark-down bin.

I took them home and snapped off the ends and snapped them in two. Next I washed them and let them dry out so they would hold the olive oil and spices.

I put all into a large bowl and lightly poured oil over them and hand mixed together. Time for what-ever spices you like now. I chose accent-pink salt-garlic powder-onion powder and taco seasoning in the bottle.

I oiled my three pizza pans lightly and put the string bens on all three pans, Then I added more accent and taco seasonings lightly along with garlic powder also.

I baked these in the oven on 350 degrees for one hour, while turning beans along the way. They shrivel down and reduce in size after cooking for an hour, to have a crunch to some of them. Taste test and if needed add more taco seasoning as the bottle of spice is weaker than the packets of spice. Now enjoy and try not to eat them all at once as they are really awesome this way.

This is my recipe that I created to share with you so keep it or keep coming back to check out my web-page to always have it stored for you. Thank you for viewing my web-site!

Prepping the string-beans.
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Beauty June 2020

Age Spots

Today I want to talk about a short subject called age spots or as old timers called them, liver spots. They are dark brown spots that appear on your body, usually around 50 years of age.

They may appear under your bust line for ladies or around on your back or possibly anywhere. They seem to be harmless when you check Google information about them.

But I do not like mine and they seem to spread over more territory of the body. So I have found something that keeps them at bay, sort of like a lion tamer. Get Back!

I use a tiny container to keep around the bathroom sink so I remember it often! I use 1 tablespoon of epsom salts in 1/4 cup of water, or whatever size your tiny container will hold in liquid. If this dries out the salt will cut your finger so keep adding a dash of water, right before it dries out.

In the morning and at night, you just dip your finger in this solution and rub it on those nasty looking spots. I have them on my back-bone (yuck). So I put this on my back almost every night and this dries them out and sometimes they even fall off as they get smaller and smaller.

I know this is an icky subject but we ladies do want to look pretty! No pictures for this subject today. This is just something I figured out and that I do. Warm hugs and love from me to you!

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