April’s Home and Garden

April’s Home and Garden, was originally hosted at squarespace.com and began on 7/10/07. It ran approximately  until November of that year. Life circumstances at the time did not allow me to continue after that. Now that I have been able to rebuild it,  I would like to repost my original first story, followed by an [...]

Here is the rice pudding recipe I promised. This is my adaptation of a recipe from Alton Brown that I found on foodnetwork.com. Ingredients: 1 teaspoon very finely minced fresh ginger root 3/4-1 cup cooked long grain or basmati rice 1 cup 2% milk (or whole milk) 1/2 cup heavy cream 3/4 cup coconut milk [...]

There are so many flavors and varieties of tea today, that it’s really hard for a tea drinker to get bored. While I drink many different kinds of tea–both for refreshment and for medicinal purposes; I mostly drink good old-fashioned iced tea. Today I would just like to share some of my iced tea ideas [...]

When I began having children, I also began learning more about living greener, and I decide that one of the ways that I could help my family and pets to be healthier, was to learn to make my own cleaning products, from less toxic ingredients than the typical chemical based, household cleaners. One good source [...]