Simple Lentils

Simple Lentils

3 cups cooked Lentils

1 tsp Salt

1 Tbsp dried Parsley (or 1/4 cup or more fresh chopped)

1/2 tsp dried Oregano (or 1 Tbsp or more fresh chopped)

1/2 tsp Turmeric

1/4 tsp ground Coriander

1/8 tsp Cumin
1/4 cup Extra Virgin Olive Oil

If available, add chopped fresh herbs and tomatoes (or sundried tomatoes, or, if serving hot, tinned tomatoes).

Greek Homemade Bread

Psomi Spitiko

Greek Homemade Bread

A Fast & Easy Stand-Mixer-Kneaded Yeast-Risen
Round Bread for Normies

3 to 3 1/2 cups Bread Flour 

        (unbleached organic white flour)
1 1/2 cups lukewarm Water (about 100°F; at least 75° & not over 115°)
1 Tbsp Dry Yeast (1 packet, or 1/4 oz)
2 Tbsp Olive Oil
1 tsp Salt

Cinnamon Vanilla Granola

Crikey Mikey. I just noticed the recipe reads "1 cup Oatmeal". I don't know how I didn't catch it before, but that is not right - the (actual) recipe takes 4 cups, aka 1 quart. I've fixed it now.

Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey

A kiddley divey too, wouldn't you?

If the words sound queer and funny to your ear, a little bit jumbled and jivey,

Sing "Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy. A kid'll eat ivy too, wouldn't you?"

Milton Drake, Al Hoffman and Jerry Livingston

Cinnamon Vanilla Granola

1 qt (4 cups) Oatmeal, either rolled oats or old fashioned oatmeal

2 Tbsp Cinnamon

1 tsp Salt

1/2 cup Coconut Oil

1/2 cup Coconut Palm Sugar

2 Tbsp Vanilla

Wood & Leather Floors & Furniture

“Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots.”

Hoosier Farmer saying

“American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat in it.”

Dave Barry 

 

My formulas can be used on both finished wood and smooth tanned leather, they are not fat-free, and they are not made with carcinogens (in-fact depending on what essential oils you use you can safely drink them though I don't know why you'd want to and please note that Murphy's Oil Soap is not my formula).

 

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HARDWOOD FLOOR SPRAY CLEANER & dusting spray

WOOD AND LEATHER FURNITURE POLISH

When Wood and Leather Need Soap

CITRUS PEEL INFUSED CLEANING VINEGAR

HARDWOOD FLOOR SPRAY CLEANER

This is how I feel about
tea. And how your floors
will feel about it too.

            & Dusting Spray

Brew a pot of strong black tea (4 - 6 teabags)

Allow to steep until cooled

In a 1 quart / 1 litre spray bottle mix:

3 1/2 cups of the Strong Black Tea

1/2 cup distilled White Vinegar*

10 drops Essential Oil**

How I Conquered Hard Water Woes of the Loo

Cleaners for the Hard-Water Plagued Bathroom.

"When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911."

Erma Bombeck

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Mildly Disinfecting Bathroom Cleaner

Heavy Duty Disinfecting

Hard-Water Mineral-Deposit Buster and Bathroom Cleaner

Gentle Effective Scouring Powder

Daily Shower Spray

My Bathroom Cleaning Routine
Notes
Short yet nonetheless meaningless rambling