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This is a easy, frozen dessert that is so tasty and filling. Ingredients 8 ounces cream cheese 1/2 cup peanut butter 1 cup powdered sugar 1/2 cup milk 8 ounces of cool whip 1 Graham cracker pie crust (Oreo is also good) Directions Add cream cheese, peanut butter, and...

recipe dessert peanut butter

This recipe is great combined with Pepper Seared Salmon and Tomato Bacon Jam. After prepping the ingredients for all three recipes, start cooking the mouse, followed by the jam. When both of those are almost done, then start the salmon so it’s fresh when you’re ready to serve. If...

recipe sides dinner

This recipe is great combined with Pepper Seared Salmon and Broccoli Mousse. After prepping the ingredients for all three recipes, start cooking the mouse, followed by the jam. When both of those are almost done, then start the salmon so it’s fresh when you’re ready to serve. If you’re...

recipe sauce dinner

This recipe is great combined with Broccoli Mousse and Tomato Bacon Jam. After prepping the ingredients for all three recipes, start cooking the mouse, followed by the jam. When both of those are almost done, then start the salmon so it’s fresh when you’re ready to serve. If you’re...

recipe salmon dinner

A friend shared this recipe with an over the top title, but we’ve made it several times now and we love it. The key is cooking the skin-on chicken on top of vegetables is a delicious combination of flavors. It’s a decent amount of prep to cut the vegetables but...

recipe chicken dinner

We had fun with this pizza recipe from the Half Baked Harvest Super Simple Cookbook. The advertized prep time was 15 minutes but it took me much longer to get everything sliced. However we ended up with extra toppings so we made another pizza the next day for lunch. Overview...

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Birding in 2019

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This soup from the Half Baked Harvest Super Simple Cookbook felt like a fancy meal to make and it turned out great. I’ve included the slow cooker and stovetop directions here but the cookbook also includes directions for an instant pot as well. Summary Prep Time: 30 minutes Cook Time:...

recipe soup dinner

Wireless charging has been around for a while now but it’s still not ubiquitous. Many people don’t know their phone supports the feature. While it’s not perfect, I think this is an under-utilized feature of modern cell phones. How does it work? Wireless phone chargers uses what is call “Inductive...

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Looks like I missed #BlackBotanistsWeek but I’m enjoying finding new accounts to follow. @t_marie_wms @nox_makunga @localecologist @jadebleau @Rk_ct Also South Africa quite possibly has the most interesting plants. They were well represented. 🇿🇦🌱

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One of the things I like about learning photography is recognising cool textures in life that I used to ignore.

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Your team realizes that testing is valuable. Your team creates tests for already completed features. The result was encouraging and your team even found a few bugs hiding in the application. Your team returns to feature development and attempts to add new tests. Features took more time to complete because...

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Your software development team released an MVP application into production. The application only had a few features and the codebase is far from perfect, but there are big plans for the future! Your team presses on, adding features and your user base continues to grow. After a few months, cracks...

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The last day of #BlackBirdersWeek is for #BlackWomenWhoBird so I’d like to share some of the black women I’ve been able to learn from this week. @juitamartinez @wilderness_goddess @kassthefish @hood__naturalist @ldpharr Thanks to all these voices for sharing their experiences and especially those who helped organize this @blackafinstem event. ...

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Orange-crowned Warbler hiding in bushes on the San Diego coastline. Birding should be a place where all feel welcome. As part of #BlackBirdersWeek there is a live stream today at 7 PM ET hosted by @blackafinstem and @audubonsociety discussing #BirdingWhileBlack. It’s a great chance to allow black birders to be...

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