Grow Your Own: Tomato Jam
The heirloom and roma tomatoes we planted this year are going gangbusters now, so I’ve had to become creative about preserving them. A few weeks ago, Dan and I went to the Seawall Art Show in downtown...
View ArticleGarden Veggies and Roasting Anaheim Peppers
Wow, these heirloom tomatoes are producing even now, and the Anaheim chiles are going crazy. I stuffed some a few weeks ago, and found that you really do need to roast and peel these; the skin just...
View ArticleGrow Your Own: Tabasco Sauce
We planted a pretty good variety of peppers this year, both hot and sweet. We had so many Tabasco peppers, I decided to make homemade Tabasco sauce. So I Googled for recipes, and the same one kept...
View ArticleGYO: Antipasto Pesto Pasta
I love the sound of that And the dish was pretty good, too. We had about 16 people over for Thanksgiving, and since we had spent two weeks in Europe, including a week in Italy, in September, naturally...
View ArticleSlow-Cooker Carnitas by Eric
Dad is here for Christmas and brought with him my cousin’s (Margaret) husband’s (Eric) slow-cooker recipe for pork carnitas, or pork cooked in its own fat. They can be served on their own or as a...
View ArticleQuick Refrigerator Pickles: Szechuan Green Beans
The green beans have been quite prolific this year. We have a couple of pounds in the freezer and a couple of pounds in the refrigerator. This is the year I plan to experiment with more food-preserving...
View ArticleMoroccan Preserved Lemons for Tagine
A couple of years ago, after I admired it in the Le Creuset outlet store in Williamsburg, Dan gave me a beautiful tagine (Moroccan cooking pot) for Christmas, along with a Moroccan cookbook. I haven’t...
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