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Gingerbread: Little Known Facts

Gingerbread is fun! Learn some things you never knew about gingerbread and find holiday gingerbread events around the Valley this season!

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Do Your Cranberries Pop?

Back in the days when our children were little, my husband and I used to make cooking cranberries, for our holiday feast, a family fun event. Fun…how is cooking cranberries fun?

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Coals Heat Up at the Chuck Wagon & Dutch Oven Cook Offs

  Chuck Wagon Cook Off True cowboy cuisine doesn’t require any electricity.  The Arizona National Livestock Show will hold the Ninth Annual Chuck Wagon Cook Off on December 30, 2011 and the First Annual Dutch Oven Cook Off December 31, … Continue reading

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Fun Facts About Peanut Butter

Do you know how many peanuts it takes to make an ounce of peanut butter? How about the number of peanut butter sandwiches you could make with one acre of peanuts? Peanut butter and peanuts it comes from are staples in the diets of most Americans. As we head into November, which is National Peanut Butter Lover’s month, here are the answers to those two questions and a bunch of other fun facts about peanuts and peanut butter.

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Freaky, Fantastic Fennel

Fennel is by far one of the tastiest and most versatile vegetables we grow. But at the same time, it is one of the least understood and most overlooked vegetables by consumers who are often overwhelmed and confused by the big white bulb and large feathery fronds.

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