
Better Ketchup: Tomato-Pepper Sauce
Better than ketchup, and more versatile. This sauce is a recent discovery that will make it into my repertoire. Canning […]
Creativity in the kitchen and beyond
Better than ketchup, and more versatile. This sauce is a recent discovery that will make it into my repertoire. Canning […]
Waste not, want not. Clean out the garden, fill the pantry. Here’s a great way to use green cherry tomatoes […]
Summer cooking is mostly simple and fast. My husband says he’s starving and putters in the garden for half an […]
This is not just any green tomato relish. It’s Mrs. Dorsey Brown’s Green Tomato Pickle, as recounted in Kevin West’s […]
I was just barely ahead of the curve. A killing frost was underway when I rescued a basket of green […]
Our garden became a little shop of horrors. Indeterminate heirloom cherry tomato vines run rampant, twining around each other, pulling […]
No meal is complete for me without something raw. Seriously. Fruit for breakfast, green salad for lunch, and a salad […]
Summer’s high season showcases the tomato. Lush and flavorful, tomatoes hardly need any embellishment. We mostly just enjoy them sprinkled […]
Here we are again, cooking the last of a season and the first of the next: tomatoes out, sweet potatoes […]
Quintessentially seasonal. Tomatoes and red peppers — roasted and slowly cooked into soup – against a backdrop of falling leaves […]
This jam is intense. It embodies the complexity of Moroccan food: sweet yet savory, bordering on sour, spicy but not […]
As summer winds down, the oven goes on. A Provence-inspired tian is perfect for the season. Neat layers of sliced […]
Pure August. The abundance of tomatoes, corn and peppers is upon us, despite the terrible tomato-growing season. This simple soup […]
Necessity is the mother of invention, as they say. This afternoon, I needed to clean out our freezer and my […]
During one of my final canning sessions to use up all of the paste tomatoes I harvested at our CSA […]
What? Still serving fresh corn on the cob in New Jersey in October? You bet. No killer frost yet. Our […]