Organizing kitchen cupboards, making sure all the mixes and spices and herbs are up to date, refilled and ready for a winter of cooking. In doing so, I saw we were out of our homemade taco seasoning. This #reusable jar contains 8-9 batches of fresh, flavourful #taco seasoning. We spent many years perfecting this recipe, experimenting with a variety of ingredients until it was perfect. We avoid having to purchase $20 of commercial, non-recyclable envelopes that contain preservatives as part of the ingredients. It took about 8 minutes, including clean up, to fill this jar that cost $1.30 in ingredients... ...A savings of $19 The savings for just this one recipe pays for the cost of the paperback cookbook. Find the recipe: https://www.amazon.com//dp/B0B12M6F3C
Poetry Time Most of you know already that Dave & I enjoy Playing With Words , which is why we chose that name for our series of poetry books. Did you know that one of the books in this series is actually a collection of poetry written by Dave's father, Frank Brummet? Beautiful BC was written in 2016 and is Frank's ode to Western Canada, where he raised his family (4 children) and where his ashes now reside. This poem comes out of Poetic Wanderings , the 3rd book in the Playing With Words series . BEAUTIFUL B.C. The West wind is blowing and calling to me, Come back to the mountains, come back to the sea, Green valleys in blossom with blue skies above, I’ll always come home to this land that I love. There’s gold in the sunset where wild geese still fly, Where proud Douglas fir trees are touching the sky, And wild rushing rivers run down to the sea, Dear land of the dogwood, our Beautiful B.C. The wild flowers are blooming, so fragr...