Homemade Tomato-Ginger Ketchup and Sweet Potato Fries
During one of my final canning sessions to use up all of the paste tomatoes I harvested at our CSA […]
Preserving Herbs Part 9: Salt Rubs – Rosemary-Sage and Celery
Now that the local growing season is winding down, I am harvesting the remaining herbs that won’t survive the winter […]
Preserving Herbs Part 8: Making Herb Tea
I have had a love affair with lemon verbena for months thanks to a bumper crop at our CSA. At […]
Preserving Herbs Part 7: Sugared Pesto – Lemon Verbena
When I was playing around with herb syrups for Part 5 of my Preserving Herbs series, I was in the […]
Canning Tomatoes: Tomato-Orange-Rosemary Sauce
I’ve been restocking my pantry with tomato puree, a simple base of crushed canned tomatoes – smooth and chunky – […]
October: Salsa – the Last Hurrah and a First Hello
As the growing season moves into its final, coolest stage, the last hurrah of summer vegetables, flowers and herbs beg […]
Peach Salsa for the Pantry
I am astounded by the fast food phenomenon of corn chips and salsa that has invaded our homes. My husband […]
Preserving Herbs 6: Rose Geranium and Lemon Basil Jellies
I’ve been making really fun jellies since the spring, when I started with flowers – dandelions, violets and Queen Anne’s […]
Preserving Herbs Part 5: Syrup from our “Local Lemons”
I am resuming the series that I started last fall on various ways to preserve herbs. Last year, I preserved […]
Peach “Marmalade” with Rose Geranium
Our neighborhood elementary school has vegetable, flower and herb gardens that are used as a hands-on learning experience for students. […]
In a Jam: Groundcherries
Ground cherries, also known as husk cherries, are piquant little yellow orbs that try like crazy to grow into their […]
Fig Jam with Rosemary and Lemon
I made a batch of microwaved fig jam (like the orange fig jam I made last year) and while it […]
Queen Anne’s Lace Jelly
Foraging the breezy fields for that lacy white flower known as Queen Anne’s Lace, also known as wild carrot, yielded […]
Blueberry Jam with Lemon Basil
The seasons for local summer fruit where I live are so fleeting that one could miss them within a couple […]
Pickle Projects: Garlic Scapes, Sliced Dills and Sweet-Hots
Every week for the past 6 weeks, I’ve put up a small batch of pickles and now I have enough […]
Cucumber Salad with Pickled Spring Onions
About a month ago, just as spring onions were starting to bulb, I picked up several bunches of scallion-like specimens […]
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