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1:31 pm
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I was working in a young couple's house once and noticed that all their homemade produce was labelled with their own printed labels. Later I discovered that Avery labels give away free software for designing and printing your own labels. I wrote an article about it here. Once you have designed your template, printing out the labels is much quicker than writing them out by hand.
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Tue 22-Sep-09
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I want to do just that! The only trouble is I've put the labels I was going to use in a safe place ...
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IF you need clip art to give interest to your labels, then you will need to download some as the avery programme is a bit thin on the ground!
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OH uses the Avery software to print her marmalade, jam and jelly labels.
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I was given some homemade jam and marmalade by the lady we are buying our dog from last weekend. Hers also had the printed labels on and it does make a difference in the presentation. What I really want though is a round label I can put on the jar lid. That is the bit we don't recycle and it would mean not having to scrape a gummy label off a bottle when it is to be reused...
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You can get round sticky labels Rob, not sure if avery do a template for them, I started trying to format a label for my stuff on Avery, but a friend did a set up for me in a sort of mail merge document and they work fine and look great, even have my logo from my business cards on them.
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The Avery round labels Avery product number L7104
And the online template designer
I have just fired up my copy of Avery's DesignPro [free] software (I use it for my Smoked Garlic address lables) and the template is there to use to design your own round labels.
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Hi Terrier and Sumprat, thanks for that! I shall go play around.
Sumprat - as you do smoked garlic, have you by any chance ever made smoked mushrooms (usually button mushrooms that are sliced, semi-dried then smoked and preserved in oil - delicious stuff)?
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Rob12 said:
Hi Terrier and Sumprat, thanks for that! I shall go play around.
Sumprat - as you do smoked garlic, have you by any chance ever made smoked mushrooms (usually button mushrooms that are sliced, semi-dried then smoked and preserved in oil - delicious stuff)?
WOW! What a suggestion. 
I have smoked mushrooms but not like this. And now that I have my dehydrator I am all set up. How dry should the 'shrooms be?
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SumpRat said:
WOW! What a suggestion.
I have smoked mushrooms but not like this
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ep said:
SumpRat said:
The Chief of Police for your neck of the woods has just applied for a warrant. I should lie low…
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Lol, whenever I discuss these I normally add in the disclaimers…
The ones that I had were pretty dry – not quite porcini mushroom dry but if you can imagine those if they had been dipped in water for just a minute or two you get the idea…however I suspect it is a matter of personal taste as well. The person I bought them from ran a smokery in the west of Ireland that unfortunately burnt down a few years ago (there is a joke in there somewhere I'm sure). She did only vegetarian products – smoked semi-sundried tomatoes, the mushrooms and a range of smoked soft cheeses.
The mushrooms were quite strongly flavoured – I ate them neat or added them by the teaspoonful to risottos for the flavour…bulked the dish out with regular mushrooms though.
Simply put they were/are a wonderful product and I am gutted that I can't get them anymore…so…if you are successful I will be your first and most loyal customer.
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Rob12 said:
Simply put they were/are a wonderful product and I am gutted that I can't get them anymore…so…if you are successful I will be your first and most loyal customer.
You can be my guinea pig 
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Simon, have you had a go at smoking chillies?, a friend of mine is nagging me to make some more chipotle chilli chutney that I made a few years ago, I think I made it before with a jar of chipotle paste...but just wondering
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Terrier said:
Simon, have you had a go at smoking chillies?, a friend of mine is nagging me to make some more chipotle chilli chutney that I made a few years ago, I think I made it before with a jar of chipotle paste...but just wondering
I should be able to smoke and dry (or dry and smoke) some chillies for you.
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