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I Am Watching You
The Maid
Hopeless
It Ends with Us
Unmissing
The All New Ball Book Of Canning And Preserving: Over 200 of the Best Canned, Jammed, Pickled, and Preserved Recipes
Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving
Jurassic World: The Official Cookbook
Halo: The Official Cookbook
Ugly Love
Verity
Where the Crawdads Sing
The Moonlight Child
Becky: The Heartbreaking Story of Becky Watts by Her Father Darren Galsworthy
Freed
Drowning in Stars
Behind Her Eyes
The Girl in the White Van
Regretting You
Defending Jacob


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Sourdough Starter

This actually works WELL! We had an issue with gnats recently and they kept getting into our starter so we had to start over. Thankfully, I think we got the gnats gone. Turned out there was a towel in our pantry that was covered in fruit that someone wiped up and did not know. Now it's gone. You Will Need: 100g Water (filtered) 100g Flour 1 tsp Yeast 

French Bread

Making bread does not have to be difficult, in fact it can be fun, and very fulfilling. It literally makes me feel so amazing when I see my family and friends enjoying breads I have made. Satisfaction for sure. Give this a try, it is very simple to make, only requires a couple of techniques. Nothing too crazy or difficult at all. Using pure ingredients makes the best, fluffiest, most moist bread ever.
UPDATE: Instead of doing it this way, if you have a bread machine throw all ingredients in, starting with wet then working on dry. I put mine on dough setting and let it do it's thing while I am busy with the kids or house work. 
You Will Need:
6 Cups Flour
2 1/2 tsp Yeast
2 tsp Salt
2 Cups Warm Water
1/3 Cup Melted Butter
1/4 Cup Honey

Mix your honey, water, melted butter and yeast into a bowl and allow to bloom 5 minutes
Add 3 cups of flour, mix and allow to rise for 30 minutes 
It will become bubbly and smell so good like yeast
Mix in the rest of the flour, and knead for a couple minutes
Grease a bowl, and place dough in the bowl, cover and allow to rise until double in size or 1 hour
Perfect... punch down and knead
Cut in 4 even pieces, and roll out into a snake like shape, leaving pretty thick; I should have cut the other one, because is was huge
Bake for 30 minutes at 350 degrees or until golden brown and hollow.. sounding on top (I forgot to picture the finished one.. sorry) 
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