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Garden Ice Cubes -- How to freeze pesto, How to freeze herbs!

So today's Sunday Scratchups is less a recipe than a how-to, in case your garden is also going nuts producing basil, oregano, and more fresh herbs. This week I started freezing both fresh herbs and pesto in ice cube trays for easy meals and seasonings later, so thought I'd share the process of how to …

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Easy Caprese Salad With Spinach -- Plus Salad Bar Saturday!

Welcome back to Sunday Scratchups (yes it is indeed Monday -- time got away from me!), your weekly source for recipes from scratch around grocery sales and affordable ingredients. This week we saw some lovely seasonal sales on mozzarella. My garden tomatoes are still just barely starting to ripen, but tomatoes on the vine are …

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Dairy Free Caprese Salad With Spinach

Here's your nondairy Sunday Scratchups for the week! While I was putting together a Caprese Salad for MashupDad and myself with some sale mozzarella and tomatoes this week, I kept thinking, well, how can I make a dairy free version of this for Junior High Guy to enjoy? Looking for regular mozzarella based Caprese Salad? …

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Easy Cashew Spinach Basil Pesto

Welcome back to Sunday Scratchups, your weekly recipe source around store sales and/or garden abundance. I don't know about your garden, but with all this rainy weather, mine is currently going nuts producing both basil and spinach. This easy and flavor-packed recipe makes liberal use of both, and substitutes cashews for pricy pine nuts. (I …

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Dairy Free Cashew Spinach Basil Pesto

The other day I scratched up some Cashew Spinach Basil Pesto using fresh basil and spinach from the garden. As your double bonus Sunday Scratchup recipe today, let me present the Dairy Free Cashew Spinach Basil Pesto variation for those of you with dairy allergies. This dairy free pesto substitutes Kalamata olives for the Parmesan …

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Good Cook Fruit Bowl Giveaway + Watermelon Granita Recipe!

This giveaway is sponsored by Good Cook. I received a fresh fruit bowl for purposes of review. All opinions here, however are my own. Today I have for you a giveaway and an easy fresh fruit recipe, all wrapped up into one! Let me tell you first about this awesomesauce Good Cook Fresh Fruit bowl, …

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