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Drinking is different at Christmas. A little more plentiful, yes, but also a tad sweeter. In our house, bottles come out at this time of year that would normally never see the light of day.

When the squash is cooked, gently reheat the lentils, if needed, and season to taste. Serve the lentils spooned into and over the squash, with the kale alongside, scattered with the garlic. 

“About 10 years ago, a co-worker kept twisting my arm to grow these things,” he said. “He eventually brought a plant into work one day, put it on my desk and told me to take it home and plant it. I was somewhat dubious about it at the time; after all, it’s kind of a silly hobby. People don’t eat these pumpkins, and they take up a huge amount of space in your garden. I generally set aside 1,000 to 1,200 square feet for a single plant, which translates into a 30-by-40-foot plot. That’s bigger than most people’s gardens.”

1. There are tens of thousands of small enterprises in the country that make great products – products that generate income for low-income groups and/or are great for the environment.

Mariah Carey got her diva label before most millennials were born. When the diva requested doves and kittens for a lighting ceremony in London, it just wasn’t mean to be.  "We did manage to source the doves that we were going to release into the sky, but the kittens proved terribly difficult," a source told Daily Mail, as reported by Zimbio.

Hi Joan, there is a whole section in the book on how to substitute butter. For the recipes, it is under “Oils & Fats” above. “Non-Hydrogenated Margarine / Buttery Spread – Bakeable Butter (p 192 in Go Dairy Free), Earth Balance Soy-Free Buttery Spread or Sticks” – so I tested with that brand and the recipe.

Hybrid sunflower seed can be made by slowly, meticulously and expensively emasculating individual flowers to create females, which are then pollinated by hand. Alternatively, mutant sunflowers, incapable of producing fertile pollen, are used as female parents in hybrid crosses.

"We expanded the recall because we cannot guarantee the quality of the affected products with absolute certainty, which is always our highest priority," said SunOpta president and CEO Rik Jacobs.

“You still had to follow traditional protocol,” she says. “We were allowed to propose things, but my ideas were always too weird. Out of the norm. ‘Nobody is going to eat that,’ they’d say. Then I went to Yam’Tcha, and that was like, ‘Wow.’”

Future Market Insights (FMI) delivers key insights on the global laboratory information systems market in its latest report titled, ‘Laboratory Information Systems Market: Global Industry Analysis and […]

Using a tripod he made with an engine hoist, Radach plans to truck this year’s pumpkin to a weigh-off at Saturday’s Skagit Valley Giant Pumpkin Festival. A scale is the only way to get an accurate weight.

Authors of a review from 2014 note that cacao is rich in antioxidants and minerals that have an anti-inflammatory effect on the skin. They also explored the use of chocolate in the prevention and treatment of skin issues, including acne and psoriasis.