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Two words sum up these chip: not impressed. At first they smelled like Nacho Cheese Bugles, then I tried them and they were boring and nothing like Bugles. They basically taste like every other cheese flavored chip from Lay’s. I wouldn’t be surprised if those lazy bastards at Lay’s didn’t just repackage their cheddar & [...]

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Anyone hungry for hockey pucks? Who knew it was so easy to screw up making ciabatta bread. On my first attempt to make ciabatta, it looked and had the texture of a very crude biscuit. While all the while in the end all I had to do was nothing. Yeah nothing! With nothing being, just [...]

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I was out of town for all of Memorial Day and didn’t get back into town until 11pm on Monday night. So here are some snacks until the next post in a couple of days.
It ended up raining on and off from Sunday to Wednesday, so it looks like the rain killed off more of [...]

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So I finally moved the patch of rhubarb from the front yard to the back yard. But I did end up leaving a little chunk in the front yard, just for fun. If it survives, great…..if not, no big lose.
I even planted a couple of chunks in the hop garden, since I had a bare [...]

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Once again an idea born of necessity. I’m getting tired of moving plants back and forth from the saw horses to the house. So with some left over plastic sheeting, a piece of scrap wood, a couple of saw horses and 2 chunks of broken cement edging I now have my own ghetto green house.
Moving [...]

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I learned to cook bacon from my mother, and her method was in the microwave oven. So naturally this was how I cooked bacon for the longest time. But the only downside to this method, it that at times it can be messy, and the final results can be inconsistent.

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This is one of the chips from the care package, and it had a pretty good flavor. When you smell the chips, they don’t have a very strong smell. But what they lack in smell, they make up for in taste. Overall you get a combo of three different flavors with these chips, the chile, [...]

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If there is one food in this world that I love, it would be “salty snacks” with the subcategory of potato chips being the focus. I kind of lump a lot of items under the “potato chip” banner. Things like pringles, tortilla chips, puffed vegetable chips, cheetos, fritos, etc. Basically most of the snacks in [...]

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As predicted, the centennial is growing like crazy. In fact the centennial has sent out a running, so now I’ve got two centennial vines trying to grow. I’m tempted to cut the running and move it to another spot in the hop garden, but I haven’t decided.
The golding is finally starting to grow, though not [...]

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These flowers are monstrous. I’ve read a couple of things online about how the flowers take away from stalk production. So I’ll be chopping out all of them this weekend. Since I have noticed that the stalks don’t seem as robust now that it is flowering. Personally I didn’t even know that rhubarb could flower, [...]

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