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Mixer-Friendly Pumpkin Bread Recipe

September 18, 2018

When you think of pumpkin bread, you probably think of the sweet cake-like stuff that’s usually served with coffee, right?  This pumpkin bread is completely different.  Use this delicious and moist pumpkin bread for making sandwiches or toasted for breakfast with butter and jam.

Try this delicious made from scratch savoury pumpkin bread as a sandwich bread, as toast, or made into dinner rolls.  It's an easy healthy recipe made with yeast that your family, and even your kids, is sure to love. #pumpkin #bread #recipe #easy #healthy #dinnerrolls #baking #fall #autumn #fromscratch #Thanksgiving

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Kristen Raney

Kristen is a former farm kid turned urban gardener who owns the popular gardening website, Shifting Roots.  She is obsessed with growing flowers and pushing the limits of what can be grown in her zone 3b garden.  She also loves to grow tomatoes, but oddly enough, dislikes eating them raw.

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Filed Under: Baking, Harvest, Recipes, Simple & Easy Tagged: bread, bread making, easy, healthy, picky eaters, pumpkin, pumpkin seeds, simple

The Ultimate Steak Sandwich: Perfect for Father’s Day

June 6, 2017

Welcome to the first in what will hopefully be a series called, The Hermit Cooks.  The Hermit doesn’t get to cook really often because he leaves at 6AM and gets home at 6PM for his job.  But when he cooks. . . it’s AMAZING!!  His latest creation is the perfect meal for Father’s Day.

Or really, anyone who loves a perfectly cooked steak…

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Kristen Raney

Kristen is a former farm kid turned urban gardener who owns the popular gardening website, Shifting Roots.  She is obsessed with growing flowers and pushing the limits of what can be grown in her zone 3b garden.  She also loves to grow tomatoes, but oddly enough, dislikes eating them raw.

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Filed Under: Father's Day, Recipes, Simple & Easy Tagged: bread, comfort food, fries, garlic, meat, mushrooms, Onions, Potatoes, recipe, sandwich, sourdough, steak, The Hermit Cooks

25 Must Try Pumpkin Recipes to Feed Your Addiction

September 15, 2016

The temperatures are cooler, the leaves are changing colours, and the changing of the season has you dreaming of everything pumpkin.

I’ve rounded up 25 must-try pumpkin recipes for your eating pleasure, plus a link for how to process them if you grow your own.  From main courses and pasta to desserts and more, there’s sure to be something to feed your pumpkin addiction.

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Kristen Raney

Kristen is a former farm kid turned urban gardener who owns the popular gardening website, Shifting Roots.  She is obsessed with growing flowers and pushing the limits of what can be grown in her zone 3b garden.  She also loves to grow tomatoes, but oddly enough, dislikes eating them raw.

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Zucchini Sandwich Bread

August 23, 2016

Zucchini Sandwich Bread

Over the next week or so I’ll be sharing recipes to use my surplus of zucchini.  If there’s anything you’d like me to feature on the blog, give me a shout in the comments.

In my house, bread recipes have to follow three rules.  They must be easy, able to be made in my Kitchen Aid mixer without too much additional kneading, and appealing to my husband and pre-schooler.  (I don’t want to be eating 4 loaves of bread all by myself!)  Bonus if it adds in some extra nutrition.
I was looking for a zucchini bread recipe that wasn’t a loaf, and came up high and dry.  I wanted to be able to make a sandwich with it, not have it as dessert.  This recipe I developed follows all of my criteria and gets rid of some of your extra zucchini!!
Zucchini Sandwich Bread
2-3 loaves
Ingredients:
1 cup warm water,
1 tbsp sugar,
1 tbsp yeast,
2 eggs, 1 tbsp oil, 1 cup shredded zucchini, 4-5 cups flour

You can use yellow or green zucchini.  Depending on the pickiness of your family, you can peel the zucchini or leave it as is.  Make sure you use the small size of shreds on your grater.  If you go bigger, the bread won’t rise like regular bread.  If you like a denser bread, then use the larger size and omit one egg.

 

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Pour one cup of warm water into a bowl.  Mix in sugar, add yeast, and set aside for 10 minutes.  You can skip this step if you have quick rise yeast.  I personally still like to do it.
Shred two small zucchini or one larger one until you get one cup.  Combine the zucchini, oil, yeast mixture, and eggs.
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Mix in 3 cups of flour.  Knead 1/2 cup of flour at a time until you get a smooth dough.  If you are using a mixer, use the dough hook attachment and mix accordingly.  Form dough into a ball and place in a greased bowl.  Cover with a clean tea towel and put in a warm place to rise for 1 1/2 to 2 hours.
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 Punch down and form into loaves.  Place loaves in greased bread pan and poke air holes with a fork.  Let rise another 1-1 1/2 hours.  Bake at 350 for around 30 minutes or until golden brown.
When the loaves are done, remove from the bread pan and place on a rack to cool.  If you are new to bread making, don’t wash your bread pans unless they are really bad.  Just wipe out the crumbs, add more oil to the pans (yes, really) and store for next time.
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Once its cool (or at least cool enough to touch–I have no patience when it comes to fresh bread) slice and enjoy!
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Kristen Raney

Kristen is a former farm kid turned urban gardener who owns the popular gardening website, Shifting Roots.  She is obsessed with growing flowers and pushing the limits of what can be grown in her zone 3b garden.  She also loves to grow tomatoes, but oddly enough, dislikes eating them raw.

www.shiftingroots.com

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Hi, I'm Kristen and I help new gardeners learn to grow their own vegetables and beautify their yards. I also share recipes that use all that delicious garden produce. Grab a coffee (and your gardening gloves) and join me for gardening tips, simple recipes, and the occasional DIY, all from the lovely city of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

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Got the seed starting itch? There's some things y Got the seed starting itch?  There's some things you can actually seed start now and you won't end up with crazy leggy seedlings and endless problems.  In fact, these plants require that you start now, and need to be started in zone 3 by the end of February at the absolute latest.⁠
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I've already started some lisianthus and eucalyptus, and am waiting on my seed orders to start some more.⁠
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If you're starting a luffa sponge, make sure you have some sort of eventual plan for the vine.  last year mine went over my fall windows before I was able to take them outdoors.⁠
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P.S. I've actually never started onions from seed, so if anyone wants to chin in about their experience, feel free!
Growing eucalyptus for the first time this year? Growing eucalyptus for the first time this year?  A new post is on the blog to walk you through it.  While in theory eucalyptus is easy to grow, it's challenging in my zone 3 garden for three reasons: ⁠
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➡️It needs a long time to mature⁠
➡️I have a short growing season⁠
➡️I live in a cool climate, and eucalyptus grows better when its warm.⁠
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That said, you can see by this picture that it can be done!!⁠
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Are you growing eucalyptus this year?
Oh friends, if any of my nice, curated photos sums Oh friends, if any of my nice, curated photos sums up how this last week went, I think it's this one.  Babies crying, trying to stay calm, outwardly looking like it's all under control, but feeling very overwhelmed.⁠
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This post isn't gardening related, so feel free to scroll by if you're here only for the gardening content.⁠
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Thankfully it's January, and I keep reminding myself that the Internet will not break if I don't keep to my self-imposed posting schedule.  But it doesn't make a week full of teething-and-not-sleeping baby any easier. ⁠
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Felicity slept through the night for the first time ever last Monday, then proceeded to punish us with frequent wakings and terrible sleep until Saturday.  And as tough as this is in regular times, in Covid times its extra frustrating because I don't have my village.⁠
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I can't just call up another Mama friend and go for coffee at her house.  I can't take my son out for a Mommy-and-Dominic date because everything he'd want to do isn't really much of an option.  There's no playgroup or play place to just drop in on.  And forget just taking everybody out to get groceries just for a change of scenery.⁠
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I know people have way more serious problems than this, and I hope I don't sound whiny and entitled, it's not my intention.  Please know that I'm very grateful for my family and job and that so far we've been healthy. ⁠
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A lot of you who follow me do so in part because you are also juggling life with very little people through this strange time.  I hope that in occasionally sharing my struggles, it makes you feel better about your struggles. (You're struggling too sometimes. . . right?)
Do you tend to plan out your garden to the nth deg Do you tend to plan out your garden to the nth degree, do you just wing it, or are you somewhere in-between?⁠
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I tend to plan it all out, and then when I actually get out in the field, so to speak, the plan changes a little bit. ⁠
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P.P.S  I get my planner bound and printed at a printing place.  Lots of people just print their own and put the sheets in a binder.
Are you gardening in containers this year? When y Are you gardening in containers this year?  When you're shopping for vegetable seeds, look for varieties that have names with words like patio, tiny, small, etc.  While lots of vegetable varieties will do fine in a container, you'll have an easier time with ones that are specifically bred for that situation.⁠
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I'm living the pepper dream in this photo. While I'm living the pepper dream in this photo.  While these ones are a bit on the small side, who doesn't want ripe peppers in July in zone 3?!?! ⁠
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Over the years I've gotten better at growing peppers, and I promise I'll spill my secrets in February when it's actually time to start them.  Until then, get yourself all or one of my four favourite varieties: ⁠
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🌶️Carmen⁠
🌶️Escamillo⁠
🌶️Candy Stripe⁠
🌶️Hungarian Hot Wax⁠
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Have you flipped open a seed catalogue lately? It Have you flipped open a seed catalogue lately?  It's so easy to get completely overwhelmed, especially if you're new to gardening.  Why are there so many varieties of everything and which ones do I choose?⁠
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Here's how I try to narrow it down.⁠
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🌤️ Short growing season like me?  Try and prioritize varieties that have short dates to maturity.⁠
🥗 What do you or your family actually eat?  While I think you should always try a couple of new things, there's no sense in planting a giant garden filled with vegetables that you're not going to cook with. ⁠
🥒 Do you care whether your vegetables are heirlooms or hybrids?  Heirlooms are the kind that have been around for 50+ years and you can save seeds from.  Believe it or not, this year we're prioritizing hybrids for some of our garden.  The Hermit @mgsraney is obsessed with production this year, so anything that's going in "his" greenhouse better be able to produce a lot.  I'm using more heirlooms in my "glamour garden" as we call it, because I want things that are pretty and I can save seeds from.⁠
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