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This post contains affiliate links. I will be compensated for purchased made through those links at no additional cost to you. All views expressed are my own. Thank you for your support! I'm so excited to get my Fall garden going this year! I can't plant until the weather cools down a bit, but I can get prepared. I need to see what seeds or transplants I need. I need to decide where everything will be planted. I will have to amend some soil and get the garden boxes ready. There are so many things to think about! I decided that what I really needed was a garden journal that will help me prepare, plan and stay on a budget. I looked at various garden journals online, but either they didn't have exactly what I wanted or they were expensive. So, I decided to create my own! While I was at it, I decided to put it in our Etsy Shop and make it available to everyone.
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This post contains affiliate links. I will be compensated for purchased made through those links at no additional cost to you. All views expressed are my own. Thank you for your support!  It is still in the hundreds here in Phoenix, but I am so ready for Fall to get here that I actually turned on my oven WAY earlier than I usually do. I got the idea to make this banana bread with maple syrup instead of refined sugar, plus use up some buttermilk that I had in my fridge. The resulting quick bread is just perfect for Fall and will be a great loaf to share with friends and family. I just posted about these No-Sew Bread Cozies and promised you this recipe. So now, if you make the cozies, you can make a new bread recipe to put in them as gifts or simply serve your bread in on your table! The only sweetener is the maple syrup! Lower glycemic than sugar and with more vitamins and minerals, you can call this bread healthy! If you love maple flavor, you will love this bread. I used a little maple extract to enhance the maple flavor, but you can leave it out or use less or more, the flavor is up to you. Truth be told, real maple syrup is pricey, so if you have a hankering for this bread and you don't care about using sugar, (or corn syrup actually), Mrs. Butterworth will work just fine in this recipe. So, you have that option. Whether you use real maple syrup, or imitation, that maple flavor goes just great with the bananas in this bread.  Banana Maple Buttermilk Bread is moist, rises very beautifully and makes a big loaf. As a matter of fact, I made one 9 x 5 inch loaf, plus 2 mini loaves in this pan, from this recipe. This is a perfect way to have a loaf for your family and to gift some little ones to friends. The banana/maple combo with the tang of the buttermilk does make this loaf feel special, so it makes a nice gift. I baked the mini loaves for about 30 minutes. So, adjust your time according to what size pan you use. This bread makes a great breakfast, or is delicious as a snack. I love to smear butter all over it! I think you will like it as well. Here is the recipe!  Other breads that you may love:
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 This post contains affiliate links. I will be compensated for purchased made through those links at no additional cost to you. All views expressed are my own. Thank you for your support!  I've been in the mood for some fabric crafting and sewing. Plus, I've been doing some bread baking. I often give loafs of bread away when I make an abundance and that made me think of this post when I showed you how to make a bread cozy to use when gifting bread. But, I had just had a conversation with a friend about how many people there are out there that do not know how to sew! I thought it might be fun to come up with a no-sew version of the bread cozy. So, I did and I'm really happy with the way it turned out!
This post contains affiliate links. I will be compensated for purchased made through those links at no additional cost to you. All views expressed are my own. Thank you for your support!  My husband and I recently went over to our son and his wife's house for dinner. We all felt like having something light yet tasty that would keep us cool during this miserable part of the summer. My DIL, who is no slouch in the kitchen, decided to make some balsamic glazed chicken which was to die for! Knowing that she likes avocado, I decided to bring these Pico De Gallo Stuffed Avocados as the side salad. Actually, because they live about 40 minutes from us, I put together the Pico De Gallo, but brought the avocados whole and assembled everything at their house. I didn't want those avocadoes turning brown. Because the salad has fresh lime juice in it, once they are assembled, that keeps everything a brilliant color. The Stuffed Avocados were a hit! They have that south of the border flavor without being too spicey and the blend of the creamy avocado with all of the other ingredients in this salad was perfect. I could hardly wait to come home and make this recipe again and share it with you.  I had seen recipes similar to this on line, but of course I had to put my own spin on it.
This salad is so easy to put together and is light and refreshing for summer. If you have some nice avocados, I hope you give it a try, I'm sure your family will love it! Click on the recipe below for a printable version!  Looking for other salad recipes? Check these out!
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Helen Reynolds: Mother of six children , grandmother to eleven! I love to cook, craft and create things and I especially love doing that with my family, So, when my lawyer daughter, Lindsey, my artist daughter, Madalynn, and I came up with the idea of Hot Cocoa Bombs, this blog was born. Then, one more daughter, with her technical and science skills, plus creativity has joined in to round us out! Read more about us here! 
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