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Gapeys Grub

Paula Thomas's homestead and food adventures

Category: Cookbook Reviews

Herbivoracious Cookbook Review

Herbivoracious is a vegetarian cookbook authored by Michael Natkin. I’ve been following him on social media and his blog before this cookbook came out and even tested out the otsu noodles recipe. I did a little video to go along with each of my blog posts for this project, something I hadn’t done in any… Read More Herbivoracious Cookbook Review

December 31, 2014May 14, 2020 gapey1 Comment

Allergy & Candida Cooking Made Easy Review

   My fourth cookbook project has come to a close. Allergy & Candida Cooking Made Easy was a cookbook recommended to me by my Environmental Illness doctor to give me some ideas of things to cook to help my battle with candida.  I have to admit I wasn’t all that thrilled with the cookbook as a… Read More Allergy & Candida Cooking Made Easy Review

January 3, 2012May 14, 2020 gapeyLeave a comment

Authentic Mexican Cookbook Review

I’ve completed my Authentic Mexican Cookbook by Rick Bayless review project after 15 blog posts and 16 recipes, not counting sauces, condiments and marinades. I have to admit I’m pretty glad it’s over. This project has been the most difficult of the cookbook projects I’ve done so far. The recipes weren’t really hard but almost… Read More Authentic Mexican Cookbook Review

May 17, 2011May 14, 2020 gapeyLeave a comment

Newlywed Kitchen Cookbook Review

This was my second cookbook project, the first being The Herbfarm Cookbook. I made two recipes from each section with the exception of two sections: The meat, poultry and seafood section was much larger than the others so I made four from it and the brunch section, not because the section was so large but… Read More Newlywed Kitchen Cookbook Review

January 11, 2011May 14, 2020 gapey1 Comment

HerbFarm Cookbook Review

I’ve been making recipes every week from the Herbfarm Cookbook over the past 3 months. I enjoy doing photography projects, especially those that include food. My first food photography project was Food A-Z. It was challenging at times as well as fun and also provided me with several photos to submit to my Getty Images… Read More HerbFarm Cookbook Review

September 14, 2010May 14, 2020 gapey4 Comments

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Dropped 24 varieties of pepper seeds this week. See what varieties I’m growing in my new YT video.
We got some new solar lights for the backyard, gifted from @solagardenus, hung up over the weekend. They look great over the compost bins. No longer need a flashlight for those night time runs to the compost! PAULA10 will get you 10% off at solagarden.co
1 of these eggs is not like the other! We got our first two dozen eggs of the year by end of February. I thought we might get 2 dozen olives but she stopped laying again, then Charlie, our chocolate layer started up and then,we got a blue egg. More should be starting soon, though we have several older hens that don’t lay much if at all with our oldest being 8.5 years.
Baby basil (Thai, opal and genovese) started on 2/16, almost ready to separate and pot up. So much new growth in the growroom in 2 short weeks. A new growroom update was posted this week.
Can’t wait for the warm weather and blooms to return. These are a few from last season’s garden.
Got a new light to try out from #spiderfarmer just in time for the fig cuttings which will be going under it soon. An unboxing and install just went up.
Seed starting season has begun and I’ve posted my first growroom update video of the season. I show how the seeds and fig cuttings are doing and go over all the other seeds I plan to get started this month. These are the onions and microgreens I have under LED but there’s more in my update.
If you love hellebores, you’ll love the Northwest Flower and Garden Festival @nwfgs this year! We got a sneak peek of the display gardens this morning and they’re looking great! As you walk in the door you can’t miss this impressive ‘Florafantastic’ display that is full of a variety of hellebores and other spring flowers designed by Flower Growers of Puget Sound.
I told myself I wasn’t going to root very many fig cuttings this year but I couldn’t help myself to some free local cuttings. I’ve got 5 varieties rooting and still have 3 more that I won from @iv_organics on the way.
If you've never been to the @nwfgs Northwest Flower & Garden Festival or have gone before and want to go again, it is coming up next week at the Seattle Convention Center. This photo was taken of the @treelinedesignz garden display when we went to the show back in 2018.
Radicchio is extremely cold hardy. It has been covered in snow a few times last month and withstood single digit temps and is still alive and nearly ready to harvest. These varieties are rossa and castelfranco. Do you grow radicchio?
It’s fig cutting season! I am adding 3 varieties to my fig collection this year. Last year I added 8 so I cut back this year. 🤣 the @iv_organics fig cutting event this month may change that though. If you want to see how I rooted them this year and what varieties, I just posted a vid showing a step by step process.

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