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13 General Home Repair and Maintenance Mistakes That’ll Cost You

Caring for your home is a massive undertaking. Just about when you’ve repaired the washing machine, the garage lift breaks or you notice a plumbing leak. Your gutters, which you cleared out in the spring, fill up again after fall leaf drop. Your fickle lawn seems to require more attention than a newborn baby. Welcome to homeownership! To compound the fun, every time you neglect or postpone handling issues with your property that crop up, you lose money. It’s estimated that every dollar of deferred maintenance results in $4 in future repairs. Bottom line? General home repair and maintenance is a pain, but it’s so, so worth it to stay ahead of any issues and anticipate what your home needs....

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ROASTED BABY POTATOES WITH ROSEMARY RECIPE

From our Experts at The Best Bakery in Ahmedabad, Café Upper’s kitchen,  a mischievous and delightful something to make for your kids to have a bite of during supper or hunger pangs between meals. Our ‘Roasted Baby Potatoes with Rosemary’ is easy and quick to make — even for your kids’ tiffin boxes for their break-hour at school! From the ovens of Café Upper Crust, a nifty recipe for replenishing your kids tummies — at school or at home! Roasted Baby Potatoes with Rosemary Recipe Ingredients 2 pounds small potatoes, baby Yukon gold or red skin potatoes 6 cloves garlic, cracked away from skin 2 to 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, enough to just coat potatoes 2 tablespoons fresh rosemary leaves, chopped...

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Recipe: Orange Chocolate Babka

This is a long recipe, so I’ve tried to break it up into logical sections. Ingredients: Dough 530 grams all-purpose flour, plus extra for dusting 100 grams granulated sugar 2.4 tsp active dry yeast Grated zest of 1 orange  3 large eggs 1/2 cup water (cold is fine) and up to 1 to 2 tablespoons extra, if needed 3/4 teaspoon fine sea or table salt 150 grams unsalted butter, room temperature Sunflower or other neutral oil, for greasing Method: Dough Combine flour, sugar, yeast and zest in the bottom of the bowl of a stand mixer.Add eggs and 1/2 cup water, mixing with the dough hook until it comes together; this may take a couple minutes. Dough will look dry...

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butter-free snickerdoodle cookies

If you’ve been following my instagram stories, you know I’ve been doing quite a bit of baking during this quarantine. I was not much of a baker before, but I have a sweet tooth and I love being in the kitchen. Oh, and I have a lot of time on my hands. We ran out of butter and are limiting our supermarket runs to once every 10 days or so. I was in the mood for something sweet, so I searched Pinterest for baking recipes without butter. Most of the recipes I found were no-bake cookies with peanut butter and oats. Guess what else I ran out of this week? However, I did see a few recipes for sugar cookies...

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