I love a simple salad with olive oil as the dressing. And although I really enjoy infused olive oils from a fancy place near where I live, it can get expensive! So sometimes I like to make my own infused olive oil at home. Especially rosemary-infused olive oil. I love the taste and smell of …
In the kitchen
Today we’re making an herbal salt scrub! I got the idea to make this scrub when I got a sugar scrub for Christmas and noticed it had dried rosemary in it. I love making salt scrubs and have a ton of rosemary and lavender in my garden. So I decided to dry a few sprigs …
Hi all! Today we’re talking about drying rosemary cuttings from the garden without using a dehydrator. I love, love, love growing rosemary—perennial varieties look great all year, and it’s one of my favorite scents. We downsized some of our kitchen stuff when we moved a few years ago, though, so we don’t currently have a …
Wondering how to store spices in a drawer? This post will teach you how to make a spice rack for a drawer using cheap pine project board you can get at your local home improvement store. How to Make a Spice Rack for a Drawer (for $4.50) January is all about organization over here. I …
How to make an easy Christmas stovetop potpourri We can now say that Christmas is around the corner. Isn’t that exciting? I’m mostly excited to have a few days off work. I love to plow through projects when I take off work…my husband says I need to relax a little, but working on projects is …
I’ve got some seriously awesome herb production going on in my balcony garden. So much that I’ve started to harvest and preserve many of them so that we’ll be able to enjoy them all winter. I used to think that drying your herbs was the only way to preserve them, but that’s not the case. …