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Spicy Toasted Pumpkin Seeds

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Spicy Toasted Pumpkin Seeds

Now that Fall decorations are coming to a close, you can toss those pumpkins, but save the seeds…or buy a bag of raw seeds from the grocery store! I’m fascinated with seasonal benefits of food, and how Fall gourds are nutritionally packed to ward off colds and seasonal illness. Pumpkin seeds are said to be […]

No Oil Salad Dressing—Three Ingredients

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Salad photo for a post about no oil salad dressing

3-2-1 No Oil Salad Dressing is so easy and tasty, you will never buy a bottle of dressing again.  It seems like I share this recipe with someone at least once a week. I learned it from Jane Esselstyn. She created it for the Forks Over Knives Cookbook. The video below demonstrates how easy it is…and by […]

How to Select Sweet Watermelons

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Vintage Phebe holding blushed watermelon slice

Usually when we enter the bleak grey month of January, I begin counting the months until watermelon season. As a kid I could eat a whole watermelon in one day…pure watermelon joy! At family gatherings nothing was better than ice cold watermelon and seed spitting competitions with my cousins, of course Greg almost always won. […]

Steak is Better

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Ground Beef at a Meat Market

Almost all ground beef is contaminated enough to make you sick. By Rob Quinn  Published August 25, 2015 on Newser. I don’t know Rob Quinn, the writer of this article for Newser, but I think this information is too important not to pass along. If you are a meat eater, it is far better to […]

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Phebe Phillips, 2021, Podcaster, Cat Lover, Poet, Storyteller

Phebe Phillips is best known for whimsical plush toys that filled the shelves of Neiman Marcus, FAO, and many fine retailers for 25-years. Today, she creates The Literary Catcast Podcast—dedicated to the preservation of vintage books and writings with cats as main characters, bringing them into the modern awareness of a podcast. She has books in the works, and is a felt artist. She and her husband left the city of Dallas in 2023 to live deep in the woods of North East Texas. They have seven cats, many raccoons, opossums, and deer.

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Phebe’s book: Why Me? Positive Verse for Loss & Sadness

Phebe's book: Why Me? Positive Verse for Loss & Sadness.

Phebe’s book, in Spanish / English combo language.

Phebe's book: Why Me?Positive Verse for Loss & Sadness, in Spanish.

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