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The sun is shining and the squishy ground is drying up, so out to the barn I went for a good coop cleaning. I had to laugh. Both goats came running into the barn and decided to have long conversations with me while I worked. I love those little boogers.
This is a blurry photo, but since I had a lot of English walnuts, I toasted 2 cups (350°F for about 8 minutes).
Then I cooled them, tossed them into my food processor, added 1 tsp. organic cinnamon, 1 tsp. honey, and 1/4 tsp. salt.
Oh my golly! This stuff is wonderful. I have only made homemade peanut butter (hard to find organic grown shell peanuts so I simply buy organic peanut butter). Remember all those nuts I cracked? Well, I am so happy with the results.
This stuff sells for $13.00 for 8 oz. and I got about 1 cup with those 2 cups of walnuts (locally grown and not sprayed). I've never bought walnut butter, but now I'm hooked on making it.
Guess what's on my spring planting wish list? Two English walnut trees.
I found a use for the plastic lids that come on the non-gmo safflower mayo I buy. Why not make the mayo? Well, I have, but it will often spoil before it's used up. When the kids are all moved out, I can make smaller batches and use it the same day (for example, homemade tartar sauce).
Back to the lids. I have recycled the glass portion for next Christmas, and topped them with canning lids and rims, recycling some of my used lids.
I can't recycle the lids here at our drop off, but these plastic lids fit a canning jar perfectly (I didn't want them on my gift due to color).
I make so many things from scratch, like hand lotion, neosporin, and even food items such as the butters etc. Those items are such a pain to open and shut with the two piece canning lid (things used daily, or several times a day, especially lotion), so I have replaced those lids with the recycled one-piece lid. Nothing ends up in the trash.
I may have to put this idea over on my SCRAP blog too. I just couldn't toss them into the trash.
The sun is shining and the squishy ground is drying up, so out to the barn I went for a good coop cleaning. I had to laugh. Both goats came running into the barn and decided to have long conversations with me while I worked. I love those little boogers.
Then I cooled them, tossed them into my food processor, added 1 tsp. organic cinnamon, 1 tsp. honey, and 1/4 tsp. salt.
This stuff sells for $13.00 for 8 oz. and I got about 1 cup with those 2 cups of walnuts (locally grown and not sprayed). I've never bought walnut butter, but now I'm hooked on making it.
Guess what's on my spring planting wish list? Two English walnut trees.
I found a use for the plastic lids that come on the non-gmo safflower mayo I buy. Why not make the mayo? Well, I have, but it will often spoil before it's used up. When the kids are all moved out, I can make smaller batches and use it the same day (for example, homemade tartar sauce).
Back to the lids. I have recycled the glass portion for next Christmas, and topped them with canning lids and rims, recycling some of my used lids.
I may have to put this idea over on my SCRAP blog too. I just couldn't toss them into the trash.
Comments
Sounds interesting :)