Did you think ginger was only for gingerbread men and ginger snaps? Well, skip the cookies, today girls. This recipe is MUCH, MUCH easier. A couple of weeks back, my kids had a stomach bug. My mom keeps the kids while I’m working (Thanks Mom!) and so I mentioned if they didn’t want [...]
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Iced Coffee
Is it hot where you are yet? Here in Georgia, in May, it’s so hot that I keep thinking the air conditioning is broken, in spite of its very best efforts. AND IT’S ONLY MAY. Obviously, we can’t totally depend on the air conditioning to keep us cool, and need to devise some of our [...]
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It’s been close to a hundred degrees all week. All I want to do in the afternoon is sleep. It’s that hot. So this afternoon I decided to dispel the heat a bit with some limeade. And then when I started rooting around in the refrigerator (generally a sea of Rubbermaid containers) I discovered 5 [...]
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AAAAAGGGHHHH! It’s hot! It’s that time of year that no matter what you seem to do, you can’t stay hydrated enough. Enter the homemade electrolyte drink. Contains no artificial colors, no preservatives, and I got the recipe from a beekeeper at the Suwannee Farmer’s Market. It’s good stuff. But honestly, noone else in my family [...]
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So I have a concern at times about the effects of high fructose corn syrup on my family. But truly, we don’t drink soda, at least not on a regular basis, so that knocks out the number one source of it for most people. But my husband and my daughter both love lemonade. Any brand, [...]
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