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Pink Peonies from the Chelsea Flower Show

Gardening for Fresh Food and a Beautiful Environment

Quilting from your fabric scraps and old clothing can be enriching. Here is a fan quilt with patchwork originally made during the depression era and assembled and quilted about 90 years later by Ronald Carlton, a contributor to Ready and Thriving.

Quilting and Making for Joy and Practicality

Quick Pickles Preserved keeping garden harvest fresher for longer

Extend Food Life for Sustainability and Single-Living

Prepare for an emergency and be ready for anything. Complete advice on how to build an emergency kit that will help you not only to survive but to thrive during an emergency.

Emergency Prep to be Ready for Anything

Baking from your pantry enriches everyday life

Baking and Cooking from your Pantry

Geraniums in a pot at Kadriorg Palace, Talinn, Estonia
Flower Gardening, Gardening

Re-Plant Overwintered Geraniums: Easy 3-Steps

Plant your winterized geraniums with super quick and easy 3-step process. Replant overwintered plants in garden or container directly. Continue reading Re-Plant Overwintered Geraniums: Easy 3-Steps

Sana M. CarltonApril 29, 2021May 21, 2021Leave a comment
Ground cover Pachysandra shown on the left of a garden path and cedar mulch shown to the right. The right ground cover can make a dramatic impact to your garden design
Flower Gardening, Food Gardening, Gardening, Making

Ground Cover: Design, Choose and Plant the Best

Ground Cover: Choose the best plants, plant them sustainably from seed, seedlings or pots, for the garden design you want in your climate Continue reading Ground Cover: Design, Choose and Plant the Best

Sana M. CarltonApril 15, 2021April 17, 2021Leave a comment
Roast potatoes dressed with chives and spice ready to eat immediately
Extend Food Life, Pantry Baking, Pantry Cooking

10 Different Meals in One Bake: Roast Potatoes Make Ahead Recipe for Meal Prep

Roast Potatoes Recipe makes 10 Meals in 1 Bake. Make Ahead Potatoes to reinvent leftovers and cook easy meals. #1 Hack Cooking for One or Two. Continue reading 10 Different Meals in One Bake: Roast Potatoes Make Ahead Recipe for Meal Prep

Sana M. CarltonApril 8, 2021April 11, 2021Leave a comment
Tarte Tatin caramel apples in a crispy crust aesthetically beautiful food and delicious tender dessert
Extend Food Life, Food Gardening, Pantry Baking

Tarte Tatin: Delight in Caramel Apple Pie made the French way

Authentic French Tarte Tatin recipe and how to video, showing tips and tricks to make crispy crust caramel apple pie Continue reading Tarte Tatin: Delight in Caramel Apple Pie made the French way

Sana M. CarltonApril 1, 2021July 14, 2021Leave a comment
Showing herb garden after a few months growth, showing full grown basil, usable thyme and loads of other useful herbs
Featured, Food Gardening, Gardening, Pantry Prep

Grow Herb Garden Indoors from Seed: Best Herbs & Detailed Tutorial

Grow kitchen herb garden from seed. Easy, foolproof, low cost way to grow herbs from seed to replanting to using in the kitchen. Detailed tutorial. Continue reading Grow Herb Garden Indoors from Seed: Best Herbs & Detailed Tutorial

Sana M. CarltonMarch 25, 2021March 25, 2021Leave a comment
Delicious Quiche made from food that is already on hand. This has potatoes onions and cheese and it could have any leftovers or other vegetables or meat that you have at home now. Avoid wasting food and reinvent your leftovers and the bottom of your fridge into delightful lunch brunch or dinner
Extend Food Life, Pantry Baking, Pantry Cooking

Quiche: Reinvent Leftovers and Aging Food into Delicious Healthy Delight

Quiche recipe flexible to use your leftovers or dairy, vegetables and meat you have at home in your fridge now. Continue reading Quiche: Reinvent Leftovers and Aging Food into Delicious Healthy Delight

Sana M. CarltonMarch 18, 2021March 18, 2021Leave a comment
Peeled garlic is fully submerged in grapeseed or extra virgin olive oil in an oven safe dish that has a lid
Extend Food Life, Pantry Baking, Pantry Cooking, Pantry Prep

Garlic Confit Recipe: Preserve Garlic Ready as a Spread or for Cooking

Garlic Confit Recipe preserves garlic cooked in oil. Ready to use to spread on bread, spice and season. Roast chicken or mashed potatoes. Continue reading Garlic Confit Recipe: Preserve Garlic Ready as a Spread or for Cooking

Sana M. CarltonMarch 11, 2021March 14, 2021Leave a comment
Delicious hot berry crumble for one see the crumbly streusel topping and Lucious blueberry orange peel filling made with less than five minutes prep time
Extend Food Life, Pantry Baking

Fruit Crumble for One: Delightful Quick, Easy, Hot Dessert Any Time

Hot dessert for one, bubbling fruit crumble made quick and easy with flexible recipe to use pantry ingredients and your favorite flavors. Continue reading Fruit Crumble for One: Delightful Quick, Easy, Hot Dessert Any Time

Sana M. CarltonFebruary 18, 2021February 18, 2021Leave a comment
Brightly colored Bargello Quilt laid out flat but looking like a hilly three dimensional 3D floor. Dog sitting on the pattern shows that this is actually laying flat
Quilting, Quilting and Making

The Bargello Quilt: Free pattern and instructions

Bargello Quilt Idea with Free Pattern, Instructions and How To Video. Magical 3-D Illusion from sewing strips. Great project for Jelly Rolls. Continue reading The Bargello Quilt: Free pattern and instructions

Ron CarltonFebruary 11, 2021June 7, 202141 Comments
Slice of Triple Chocolate Cheesecake, showing layers of chocolate cheesecake topped by brownie all covered in chocolate ganache. Flavored with Jameson's Whiskey. It tastes similar to The Cheesecake Factory Jack Daniel's Upside Down Double Chocolate Cheesecake
Pantry Baking

Triple Chocolate Indulgence: Brownie, Cheesecake, Ganache Chocolate Explosion

Jack Daniel’s Upside Down Double Chocolate Cheesecake from The Cheesecake Factory inspired Triple Chocolate Indulgence Recipe and How To Video Continue reading Triple Chocolate Indulgence: Brownie, Cheesecake, Ganache Chocolate Explosion

Sana M. CarltonFebruary 4, 2021February 4, 2021Leave a comment

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