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Edible Landscaping 101: Great Time to Start Planning Next Year’s Garden!

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Roasted Tomatoes with Pasolivo Rosemary Olive Oil

Roasted Tomatoes Straight from the Vine

Each year for as long as I can remember, I have planted herbs, tomatoes, and peppers. Sometimes I’ll also plant pumpkins or cucumbers (love both of these!). This year we went all out and planted tomatoes, herbs, cucumbers, corn, pumpkins, squash, okra, peppers of every conceivable kind.

It has been an absolute joy to go outside and “grocery shop!” So much so that we’re planning on planting even more next year and have mapped out a few choice spots to have not one, but two gardens. We got an extra freezer to store our produce in and I have a strong feeling we’ll be thanking ourselves for our efforts all winter long.

Benefits of Growing Your Own Food

  • It’s healthier! Fruits and vegetables are outrageously healthy and growing them, yourself, means you control the pesticides used and know EXACTLY what all has been involved from getting them from the garden to your plate.
  • Convenient. Even when we weren’t living inside of a pandemic, the convenience of being able to step outside your back door and grab what you need to complete your meal was crazy convenient. These days, however, it’s even more so. Anything we can do to keep from having to go to the store is a win.
  • Economical. If you shop for fruits, vegetables, herbs, and spices in stores I don’t have to explain this one to you at all! Growing your own produce and herbs saves you money during the summer as well as during the winter if you freeze or can your harvest.
  • Fun and Enriching Hobby! Any time we push ourselves out of our comfort zone and learn how to do new things, it’s SO good for our minds. Not only that, new hobbies are great for your emotional health as well. Gaining confidence through growing your own produce is a great payoff and one you won’t even realize has happened until you proudly walk into the kitchen with your colorful bounty.
  • Excellent Exercise, Sunshine, and Fresh Air. Having vegetables and herbs in addition to my beloved flower beds has given me more reasons than ever to get outside and enjoy the fresh air and sunshine. The extra (enjoyable) work of watering, weeding, planting, picking, etc.. has been wonderful exercise, too.
  • Get the Kids Involved! My oldest grandbabies (3 and 1) have LOVED watching the veggies grow, watering them, picking them, and even tasting them! It’s a great way to get kids involved in a wonderful and useful hobby AND encourage them to eat more fruit and vegetables.
  • Perfect for Those with Restrictive Diets. I have to eat gluten-free and have to say, it’s always extra comforting to KNOW something is completely free from gluten or wheat and hasn’t been cross-contaminated. Anyone who has to avoid gluten, peanuts, soy, wheat, or other problematic ingredients will appreciate the full control growing your own food gives you.

Below is a wonderful infographic about “Edible Landscaping” from an outstanding article titled The 12 Best Edible Landscape Plants. After clicking on the infographic below and seeing the wonderful information, I hope you’ll click through the link above to learn more. If you live in here in the states, more likely than not you’re like me – looking at the end of the gardening season. But, truly, what better time to start planning than now?! Gather your information, arm yourself with facts, accumulate the tools and seeds you’ll need, and map out your garden.

Next year will be here before you know it… so get growing!

Edible Landscaping Infographic

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15 Best Free Apps for Eating Healthy on a Budget

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Maintaining a healthy lifestyle can definitely be a challenge at times. With fast-food chains such as McDonalds, Burger King, and Wendy’s on nearly every corner, the temptation to stop and get a quick bite to eat is something that everyone has in common. In life, you can’t control everything, but you most definitely can control the food you put into your body.

Of course, it’s okay to splurge every now and then, but if your diet mainly consists of processed foods this can and will be very detrimental to your health. Even though you may not see the effects right away, in the long run you will be more prone to various types of illnesses that can be a great threat to your general health. That being said, there is no better time to take control of your health by finding ways such as downloading healthy food apps to create a more balanced diet.

Due to the fact that the health and fitness lifestyle has become more popular than ever, it only makes sense that the number of health and fitness apps would skyrocket too. It’s 2019, and there seems to be an app for just about everything! So why not download an app that can transform your diet and help you live a healthier lifestyle? These apps can virtually do everything! Some can track your heart rate, the number of calories you eat, provide you with personalized meal plans and so much more. Having these apps is almost like having a personal trainer or nutritionist in your pocket. 

So instead of spending hundreds of dollars on a personal trainer or nutritionist, you can simply download apps that can basically do the same thing. Feel free to utilize or download the various apps that Wikiby has found to help you keep your general or specific diet on track and so that you can crush your fitness goals by the new year. 

15 Best Free Apps For Healthy Eating On A Budget

Infographic Credit: WikiBuy.com

Protein Sources for Vegans (Infographic)

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When my beautiful middle daughter, Brittany, was 12, she decided she no longer wanted to eat meat. It actually began to nauseate her to even look at meat. I thought it was adorable when she announced that she never wanted to eat anything “…that once had a face.” I said, “Fair enough!” and launched into in-depth research of healthy eating for vegetarians and vegans (assuming that could be a future choice). My main concern was protein because, let’s face it, we all associate protein with meat and meat with protein.

I was delighted (then and now) that there are so many sources of protein that never had a face.

I began making and buying black bean burgers, nuts by the pound, and even more vegetables than I already did. Brittany’s vegetarianism, in my opinion, helped make me a better (and healthier) cook. What some may have viewed as a “problem” or “headache” was actually a positive for our family. She has stuck with her vegetarianism and I have stuck with a very healthy obsession with vegetables!

You can most certainly have a healthy diet if you are a vegetarian or even a vegan. You simply have to make certain you are as conscientious and passionate about what you INCLUDE as you are about what you EXCLUDE.

The wonderful infographic below, from Snap Kitchen, sums it up beautifully. It also has made me pretty darn hungry for a great salad with chickpeas and nuts… so I’ll just wrap things up…

Infographic Source: Snap Kitchen


How to Pick the Freshest Produce (Infographic)

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How to Pick Fresh Fruits and Vegetables
While I have often tried to focus on healthy eating on Get Cooking, I am really revitalizing my focus. Why? Because I’m revitalizing my focus on healthy eating in my own life and want only the best for you and your family as well!
Don’t worry, I have no intention of completely cutting out desserts and even less intention of completely cutting out carbs (they’d have to pull my potatoes out of my cold dead hands… whoever they are). But cutting back on less than healthy foods while increasing healthy foods only makes sense.
I’m lucky – I’ve always been a fiend for fruits and vegetables. Especially vegetables. I’m not sure if it’s because my parents always had gardens while I was growing up or if I simply enjoy the taste of just about every vegetable imaginable. Probably a little of both.
Below is a very useful infographic from Pounds to Pocket that’ll help you determine when a fruit or vegetable is the freshest.. as in ripe for the taking!
How to Pick Fresh Fruits and Vegetables in the Store

America’s Favorite Jelly Bean Flavors, By State

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What’s your favorite flavor of jelly bean? Mine are grape, cherry and strawberry – pretty crazy about each, but if I had to pick one, it’d be grape. I was really shocked by the results of the favorite jelly bean flavors around the country (see the interactive map below). Licorice?! Seriously?? That’s undoubtedly my LEAST favorite, and here it is a favorite with a lot of people. In fact, it’s the favorite in my own state (Kentucky).

People, what are you thinking?! Grape’s where it’s at. Or cherry or strawberry…. watermelon or green apple, even.


I’m giving myself a craving for jelly beans now. I’ll leave you with the map and see if I can find some in our Easter candy dish. Some grape ones, that is.

Source: 10+ years online candy sales data from CandyStore.com.

Interactive Map Credit: Candy Store


The MANY Uses of Apple Cider Vinegar (Infographic)

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Apple Cider Vinegar Uses Infographic

The health benefits and uses of, apple cider vinegar are far reaching, as it has shown promise for diabetes, heart health and weight loss. Take a look at this infographic to know more. Use the embed code to share it on your website.

Apple Cider Vinegar Uses Infographic
The health benefits and uses of, apple cider vinegar are far reaching, as it has shown promise for diabetes, heart health and weight loss. Take a look at this infographic to know more.


Infographic: 15 Easy Ways to Make Food Taste Better

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The infographic below (from British friends of the food blog… hence yoghurt instead of yogurt!) includes some great tips for making your food taste even better. I love these tips – several of which I personally swear by.

Below are a few quick tips from my own kitchen:

  1. When making a dish with multiple food components (stew, soup, salad…), chop the individual foods as small as possible. Sure, it’s more work (unless you use a food processor) but each bite will provide more flavor. After all, the more foods that can fit on a spoon or fork at once, the greater the flavor punch.
  2.  Ground Chuck simply tastes better than ground beef. There is no getting around it.
  3. In addition to Kosher salt and black pepper, a few seasonings I keep on hand at all times (as in I’m apt to run out of just about anything before I ever run out of them) are: Cumin, Montana Mex Chile Salt (as well as their Sweet Seasoning Blend), Garlic Powder, Cayenne Pepper, Red Pepper Flakes, Pink Himalayan Salt, Seasoned Salt, and McCormick’s Montreal Steak Seasoning. Experiment with seasonings – go bold! Just do so a little at a time, because you can always add more, you can’t add less.
  4. Use herbs often and use herbs generously. I love growing my own herbs – even though there is a Battle Royale between me and raccoons – and they’re winning. Good thing they’re so darn cute! Rosemary, chives, parsley, and cilantro are my favorites but Basil and Oregano are fast-becoming members of the “in crowd.” Add parsley to scrambled eggs, cilantro to any and all Mexican-inspired dishes, rosemary to soups, and chives to everything else. Well, almost. Chives snipped onto fresh from the oven baked potatoes make all the cares of the world slip away.
Courtesy of: Quid Corner


10 Ways to Make Avocado Toast (Infographic)

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10 Ways to Make Gourmet Avocado Toast - 5 Types of Avocado Toast
Source: eReplacementParts.com blog
If you don’t like avocados, I challenge you to try them again.  Seriously, give them another chance. Their buttery, delicious flavor is something that (in my mind, anyway) would be impossible not to love. Pick yourself an avocado that’s slightly “soft” – too soft and the avocado is going to be a huge disappointment – too hard and… well… the avocado is going to be a huge disappointment. Find one that is “ripe” – the infographic below gives a cool little trick you can use if, unlike me, you don’t like groping avocados.

Try not to judge.

I always use lime juice with my avocados and guacamole, but a lot of people swear by lemon juice. I also like to add freshly ground Pink Himalayan Salt but sea salt is also really good. My husband likes cayenne pepper on avocados as well as in guacamole – but I’m more in favor of letting the avocado enjoy the spotlight with just a little salt and lime juice.

{For my favorite easy guacamole recipe, click the link. }

Something that’s pretty big right now is avocado toast… DELICIOUS!… and you just have to try it to see how amazing it is.

Keep reading for ways to enjoy avocados and avocado toast!

10 Ways to Make Gourmet Avocado Toast - 5 Types of Avocado Toast
Source: eReplacementParts.com

Foodie Infographic: A Visual Guide to 9 Classic Soups

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Soups and salads. Salads and soups. Two of my most delicious obsessions in the entire world. Along with catfish, strawberry sundaes, coffee, and raspberry tea, soups and salads are never far from my mind or reach. While I eat more salads in warmer weather than in the cooler months, soup is a year-round thing with me.

The things I love about salads and soups are:

  • They’re delicious.
  • They’re photogenic (I ain’t going to lie, we food bloggers dig that).
  • The options and possible combinations are, literally, endless.
  • With planning, soups or salads can accompany a meal or they can be the meal.
  • You can tweak this and pinch that to achieve your own personal vibe. If peppers are your favorite vegetable, simply add more. If (like my husband and two of our three daughters) you live for garlic, add an unseemly and obscene amount!
  • Most soups and salads are inherently gluten-free (especially if you make them yourself and read labels).
  • Soups can be assembled in the morning and cooked in the slow-cooker all day. The smell fills the home and your family simply has to dish the deliciousness into their bowls when they’re ready.
  • They can be very inexpensive to make. Love that.
  • Soups and salads can be as healthy as you want them to be. This is probably my favorite thing about them. I mean, what better way to “up” your veggie count for the day than throwing them all together and making something fantastic while you’re at it?!

The infographic below is from Pounds to Pockets and gives you a beautiful and very helpful guide to 9 favorite soups. Enjoy!

Soups Infographic

Credit: Pounds to Pockets

See Also: For one of my favorite soups see my Loaded Baked Potato Soup in the Crock-Pot recipe.

Infographic: Health Benefits and Healing Properties of Turmeric

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When it comes to superfoods, I’m reading more and more about turmeric. It’s fascinating just how much good this unassuming, colorful, and delicious spice can do for you. As the infographic below shows, when we use turmeric in our cooking – we aren’t just doing our taste buds a favor… we’re helping every other member of the team as well!

My favorite way to use turmeric is on rice, but I can’t wait to try the different ways mentioned here. After reading the infographic, click through the link beneath it for more great information.


Source: Fix.com Blog