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How To Grow Purple Basil
We love to grow rare and colorful plants that you can’t always find on the store shelves. Purple basil is said to have a spicy clove flavor. It pairs will in dishes when it is not cooked but can also but cooked which makes the leaves turn black. It also looks amazing in a garden…
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Plum Chicken Stir Fry Recipe
When you celebrate the Seanad fruits of summer something wonderful happens. Plums and in season and something wonderful happens when fruit meets vegetables and meat. You end up with an incredible celebration of sweet, sour, and savoury. In this dish you have everything you need to end the day full and happy. If you’re growing…
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How To Grow Cauliflower
Cauliflower is another family favorite here at Our Little Chateau. The photo above is of one of our cauliflower plant when it started to grow a cauliflower head. Growing cauliflower is fairly easy and also fun to watch grow. Sun – Cauliflower plants need at least 6 hours of direct sunlight a day. Soil –…
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How to Harvest and Save Tomato Seeds.
Tomatoes are one of our favorite and most used fruits here in Our Little Chateau. They are sweet and tangy and go with almost everything, they are also tasty on there own. We eat a lot of different type of tomatoes from big to small, and in many different colors. For this reason we like…
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Easy Rainbow Rice Pebbles For DIY Art Projects
With the winter weather finally here the baby is finding it to cold to play outside like he use to. So we have started to do more indoor activities. Rainbow rice is always fun but we also wanted to be able to make detailed rice paintings with the older children as well. The fix was…
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How To Grow Kiwi Plants From Store Bought Kiwis.
Spring is in the air, the last frost has come and gone, birds are singing, and the sun is shining a little longer each day. I started my seedlings a little earlier this year after learning that the growing season here is shorter than where I use to live. Which works out perfectly because now…
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How to Grow Store Bought Garlic In Your Garden.
We like to grow garlic in a garden for a few reasons. The biggest reason that we like to grow garlic is that we know it is organic an wasn’t sprayed with chemicals. We also like to use the garlic greens in cooking, and also we just love gardening. There are more reasons but those…
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Quick-Rise Yeast Pizza Dough Recipe
It’s pizza time again. Oh so yummy delicious pizza! It seems our children can not get enough of things pizza, and pasta. Homemade pizza is definitely something we all have been missing since coming to Ireland. The photo above is a picture of a pizza I made while still in Canada. Hopeful I can make…
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Blueberry Waffles Recipe
Sunday brunch as become a big deal at our little chateau. Because of the pandemic everyone is working at home and going to school online. This means less time to eat as a family because everyone has different meeting times. We always did Sunday brunch and loved it but now that it is one of…
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Irish Soda Bread Recipe
I use to make Irish soda bread very morning before cooking breakfast. It’s as easy bread to make so it doesn’t require to much attention. One can easily make it with what little mental fortitude one has while half awake before the sun and the toddlers wake up. I have very fond memories of standing…