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My Book!
I wrote a book about preserving food. The same step-by-step instruction and full-color photos you find in my blog. Buy it at Yes, You Can
Yard Birds
Adorable, handcrafted, folk art. Yard Birds add whimsical flare to any garden, yard, or entranceway. Click here to find a Yard Bird for your kitchen garden.
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Sprouts
Amazon.com is a terrific source for certified organic seeds intended for home sprouting. Dress up salads, stir-fry, sandwiches, spreads, and other dishes with homegrown sprouts of all kinds. Follow this link to order your sampler or to find home sprouting kits.
Small Kitchen Garden Store
Find the perfect gift for any kitchen gardener--or find products to help get the best from your own small kitchen garden. To save you time, we've selected products from Amazon.com that received the best customer reviews. Click here to visit our store and pick up the perfect gifts for any small kitchen garden enthusiast.
How to Make Pie Crust: Videos
Making a decent pie crust is critical for making a good pie. A traditional pastry dough recipe can be challenging, but the classic oil-and-milk approach is relatively easy.
Yes, making pie crust is time-consuming, but nothing about it is difficult. I’ve written heavily-illustrated step-by-step instructions on a page called How to Make Pie Crust. I’ve also embedded two videos on this page that show how I mix dough and form both a bottom crust and a lattice-style top crust.
Video Instructions for Making a Pie Shell (Bottom Crust)
This video explains how to mix an oil-and-milk pastry dough and line a pie pan with it. The video runs just over six minutes:
Video Instructions for Making a Lattice Style Top Crust
The following video covers some of the same information as the preceding one. It explains how to mix an oil-and-milk pastry dough and use it to make a lattice-style top crust for a pie. The video runs about five minutes. Please note that the video ends with some information about baking a finished pie; that information doesn’t apply to every type of pie … the one I made in the video had a strawberry & rhubarb filling:
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