Virginia Housewife When I started this blog I seriously considered calling it The Modern Virginia Housewife, in honor of Mary Randolph’s publication from 1860. Being from Virginia, and growing up in a 300 year old home, I can easily … Continue reading
My mother sent me a link to William Sonoma’s Agrarian line of products the other week and I simply died. I absolutely love every single piece of this agro-eco-friendly line of products. The only rub? The price! Naturally I started … Continue reading
Mr Marine brought home a huge lamb leg (forgive me for not knowing the technical term) with the bone in and cooked it for dinner over the weekend. I can’t remember the last time I had lamb, but it was … Continue reading
Homemade Pizza Sauce This past week Mr Marine and I were snowed in, in a late winter snow storm. This weekend it should be in the 60s! While we were deciding what to have for lunch, we noticed we had … Continue reading
A few weeks ago I posted about how to use potatoes that had gone bad, or sprouted, and turn it into an advantage. The same thing can be done for garlic. Everyone’s cut into a clove of garlic to see … Continue reading
Potatoes – there are so many things I love about potatoes. They’re cheap, delicious, filling, and almost fool-proof to grow. If you’re a beginner gardener, I highly recommend planting potatoes. They’re easy to grow in containers if you’re in base … Continue reading
If you’re anywhere on the East coast, you’re probably hunkered down indoors, cup of your choice of hot beverage in hand, covered in a blanket, waiting out the cold and snow and nasty conditions outside. So it may seem odd … Continue reading
Victory Gardens (War Gardens) were created and encouraged during WWI and WWII to reduce the demand on food supplies. Civilians were encouraged to plants their own vegetable gardens, in what little land they had, so that produce and rations could … Continue reading
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