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¾ cup sugar ¼ cup orange juice ½ teaspoon almond extract ½ teaspoon vanilla

2. Dictionary Labels If you don’t have a dedicated pantry space, consider using a bookshelf or a side table in your kitchen. Kristine from The Painted Hive offers these beautiful, classic dictionary labels she uses on crock-style jars for open pantry storage. Kristine has 17 labels in the free set that she offers on her blog here, along with a detailed tutorial for printing. 3. Editable Labels With editable labels, you can customize predesigned printables with your own text....

Test Kitchen Tip: A trick you can use for any prime rib recipe here: Remove them from the heat source at 135°F for medium-rare or 150°F for medium, allow to rest for 15 minutes and test the temp again. The prime rib should register 145°F for medium-rare doneness or 160°F for medium doneness

*Test Kitchen Tip: To make triangle-shape bars, cut the cookies crosswise into four strips. Then cut each strip into five triangles (you’ll end up with two half-triangles from the ends of each strip).

1 3 ounce package cream cheese, softened 1 tablespoon butter, softened ¾ cup powdered sugar 2 tablespoon dry sherry ½ teaspoon vanilla

In addition to being sensitive to red, green, and blue light (which is what makes up our vision), birds are also sensitive to ultraviolet light. Mary Caswell Stoddard, an assistant professor in the Princeton University Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, along with her research team, wanted to learn how birds see color in the world, so she set up several experiments involving wild broad-tailed hummingbirds at Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Colorado....

1 ¼ cup all-purpose flour 1 package active dry yeast ½ teaspoon salt 1 cup warm water (120 degrees F to 130 degrees F) 2 tablespoon vegetable oil or olive oil 1 ¼ cup whole wheat flour

Need to fill those shady spots in your yard? Learn about the best perennials for shade. Rodger’s Flower Care Consistently moist soil is essential for Rodger’s flower. If the soil dries out, leaf margins may turn brown. Rodger’s flower grows in part shade or full sun. If planted in full sun, wet soil is a must. Plant this long-lived, spreading perennial at the edge of ponds or streams. It also grows well in the moist basin of water gardens....

**Tip: If using beets, precook beet slices separately to prevent the red color of the beets from “bleeding” on to the other vegetables. ***Tip: When done, the chips will look evenly dry, the edges will have curled, and the chips will be crisp. Remove a chip or two and let cool a few minutes. Taste for crispness. Keep drying if chips are not crisp.

nonstick cooking spray 2 pound ripe roma tomatoes (about 12), halved, cored, and seeded* 1 medium red onion, quartered ½ cup olive oil ½ cup fresh basil, thinly sliced 2 tablespoon snipped fresh oregano 2 tablespoon snipped fresh thyme 4 cloves garlic, minced 1 teaspoon kosher salt ½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper 1 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese ** The internal color of a meatball is not a reliable doneness indicator....

½ cup best-quality extra-virgin olive oil Juice from 2 lemons Peel from 1/2 lemon 2 cloves garlic, minced 4 sprigs fresh oregano leaves Freshly ground pepper