Category: Vines and Wine
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How to Make an Ice Bucket for Chilled Champagne
A special occasion needs a special ice bucket just for the bubbly. Here is how to make a nice Icy Ice Bucket. Fill a clean bucket with water. Sit the bucket outside overnight so that the water in the bucket freezes. The next day, upturn the bucket and bash it until the ice slides out.…
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Easy Peasy Cream of Broccoli Soup with Ricotta Cheese.
You will remember that a few months ago, John bought in some sauvignon blanc grape juice for making into wine. We bottled the wine this morning. This is just a light table wine. Nothing special but Quaffable, darlings!! The good wine is still in the tank. I have a very simple cream of broccoli soup…
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The Last of the Wedding.
Wedding Dress Jeep Cufflinks Dressing. College Girls with Scabby Knees. Dancing Bridesmaids That was yesterday and this morning I have a tired brain. Soon Third Son will come and collect me and carry me off to the Central Valley. It is a four hour drive and he is one of those drivers who you have…
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Making pear cider on the Sustainable Farm – Nothing is Wasted.
A chilly autumnal day (this word autumnal needs to be said out loud, I think it has the most beautiful sound). Today we begin to make the pear cider. The pears have been sitting in the shed quietly ripening and now they are looking juicy and sweet. Except for that greenish one, I am going…
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