How to spice up sweet peas?

There's all kinds of things you could also add. Like onion or bell pepper to the mix. Add basic seasonings to the peas. Salt and pepper work well, but oregano, garlic powder, chili powder or a variety of different popcorn seasons can help hide the taste of the peas as well.

When you were going to try a new recipe what is the first thing you want to do?

Read it all the way through. Make sure you understand what it is telling you to do. It's surprising how many recipes will have something listed in the ingredients (for example, 1 diced bell pepper), and then it never explicitly tells you where to put it in.

How many recipes are in the Better Homes and Gardens cookbook?

There are over 1200 recipes with a 1000 color photographs. It's a bright, happy book.

What flavors go well with sweet peas?

They're perfectly paired with chervil, mint, parsley, and tarragon, as well as with beans, onions, potatoes, squash, and much more—including carrots, with Farmer Lee Jones sharing how “peas and carrots go together like a sock and a shoe.”

Is Epsom salt good for sweet peas?

Sweet Peas don't like to be too wet but in a dry spell they will need watering and feeding. I generally, use a balanced feed. Later in the season you might find them suffering from leaf scorch which is thought to be caused by a magnesium deficiency, this can be helped with a dose of Epsom Salts.

When modifying a recipe what is the most important thing to remember?

When modifying a recipe, it is best to make one modification at a time. Reduce or increase the amount of an ingredient to be modified by a small amount at first. You can make an additional adjustment the next time you use the recipe. Most foods, especially baked goods, require careful adjustments.

What two things should you do before you begin making a recipe?

First, you take the recipe that you intend to cook and read it thoroughly to familiarize yourself with the timing, techniques, equipment, and ingredients you will need. Second, you pull all of the necessary equipment and arrange it near your cooking station, so that it is at the ready.

What is it called when you gather all ingredients before preparing a recipe?

Mise en place (MEEZ ahn plahs) is a French term for having all your ingredients measured, cut, peeled, sliced, grated, etc. before you start cooking. Pans are prepared. Mixing bowls, tools and equipment set out. It is a technique chefs use to assemble meals so quickly and effortlessly.

Is BHG a Walmart brand?

Better Homes & Gardens partnered with Walmart in 2008 to bring you a line of home products designed with function, beauty, and style in mind.

Did Linda Ronstadt write a cookbook?

Ronstadt, 76, has written a cookbook. But “Feels Like Home: A Song for the Sonoran Borderlands,” published by California's Heyday press on Oct.

Do Food Network contestants get to use recipes?

All of our stars and contestants use original recipes that they create for the shows they appear on. We do have a talented staff of chefs in the Food Network Kitchens, but they develop recipes for our non-television products, like the Food Network Magazine, our website, cookbooks, etc., but not for our stars.

How do I get more flowers on my sweet peas?

Sweet Peas will grow and flower faster as the days get longer in spring and early summer. Using compost or dried aged manure will help provide nutrients to produce large abundant flowers. A fertilizer with higher phosphorus than nitrogen can boost flower production as well.

How do you top sweet peas?

The idea of pinching out sweet peas is to encourage more bushy growth that will, in turn, produce more flowers. The flowers will only grow from the single stem if you leave them to grow as they are, whereas pinching out the top growth will encourage multiple stems to grow, which means more beautiful blooms.

Kitchen Art Using Vintage Recipes

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Recipe cards are becoming a thing of the past. We now look online for a recipe rather than in a cookbook or in a recipe file. I love looking at vintage recipe cards for meal ideas and particularly enjoy the card if the handwriting is a relative’s.

At Christmas my friend, Richella, from Imparting Grace made a Christmas ornament using a copy of one of her mom’s handwritten recipes. I loved this idea and today’s project was inspired by Richella’s ornament.

Rather than make a Christmas ornament using family recipe cards, I created mini kitchen art. All of the projects that I’m sharing today will be gifts for my mom, aunts, and cousins. I hope that they love this project as much as I do!

How to Make Kitchen Art Using Vintage Recipes

Locate Recipes

For this project I looked through my mom’s recipes to find a few in my grandmother’s handwriting. I was thrilled to find Granny Wood’s Sugar Cookies because that was a treat that Granny made for us from time to time when we visited on Sunday afternoons. I also wanted a recipe in Granny’s sister Frances’ handwriting so that I could make a gift for her granddaughter, Katie. I found a recipe card for Unbaked Oatmeal Cookies that Frances dated 11/28/77.

Scan and Photocopy Recipes

I then scanned the recipes into my computer and printed them on cardstock.

Prepare Craft Boards

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I had several DIY Weathered Wood Craft Boards from Oriental Trading on hand that I used for this project. I used one of these boards for the DIY Button Heart that a shared a few weeks ago. After examining the craft boards, I noticed that the paint job on several of them was poor, so I covered the boards with paint flaws with scrapbook paper using Mod Podge.

To cover the boards with scrapbook paper, first cut the paper to the size of the board, then brush the board with a thin coat of Mod Podge, then apply the scrapbook paper.

For this project I also used Unfinished Wood Rectangular Plaques from Oriental Trading. I stained the wood with Minwax Wood Finish in Weathered Oak.

Glue Recipe Copies to Craft Boards

After the craft boards were prepared, I cut out the recipes and used Mod Podge to glue them to the boards. When the boards were dry, I added a topcoat of Mod Podge as a sealer.

Attach Hangers

Attach a hanger to the back of each craft board. I had to glue the hangers to the craft boards but was able to easily nail the hangers into the wood plaques.

Display and Enjoy

When I share vintage things that I inherited from my grandmother, I’m almost always referring to my paternal grandmother. I have many of her handwritten recipe cards but did not use any of them for this project.

Granny Wood is my maternal grandmother. Most of her grandchildren called her Granny Wood to differentiate between their maternal and paternal grandmothers. Some of my childhood friends who knew Granny from church and who used to visit her with me even called her Granny Wood. Granny Wood was a good country cook who made biscuits three times a day and even baked them in a wood burning cook stove in the winter. My cousin now lives in her house and still uses the same wood burning cook stove her kitchen.

Here is my sweet Granny Wood in the 1980’s holding my cat, Miss Prissy.

Kitchen Art Using Vintage Recipes - Sweet Pea (2024)

How to Make Kitchen Art Using Vintage Recipes

Locate Recipes

Scan and Photocopy Recipes

Prepare Craft Boards

Glue Recipe Copies to Craft Boards

Attach Hangers

Display and Enjoy

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