Fresh, Roasted Tomato Salsa.
Hello. We meet again. This time, to cover much more important matters than Chicken Piccata. Okay, fine. Not that much more important. I can’t help it – it’s the time…
Read MoreFor many months of the year, our family is sustained by what we grew and preserved during the harvest season. A large root cellar sits below our kitchen to store these beauties.
Hello. We meet again. This time, to cover much more important matters than Chicken Piccata. Okay, fine. Not that much more important. I can’t help it – it’s the time…
Read MoreOh fermented pickles, how I love thee. I don’t know what it is about summer vegetables, but I go star crazy. It’s like I can’t help myself. A fancy purse…
Read MoreAt one time, I had fifty pounds of cherries. Now, I have a beautiful, scarlet-colored, raw, naturally-sweetened cherry freezer jam. Say whaaaaat? Raw jam? Aren’t they normally cooked into oblivion?…
Read MoreNaturally Sweetened Strawberry Jam. Yum. Just because preserving food in the Deep South has almost no purpose, for some reason, the habit of food preservation just won’t leave me. But…
Read MoreWe live in a wasteful culture. And if you disagree with me, I challenge you to visit the dumpster of your local grocery store or stare closer at the garbage…
Read MoreAn easy one for you today my friends, but a delicious one none-the-less. I’ve been having so much fun cooking with it, I had to share. I share because I…
Read MoreYesterday was a good day of getting back to the day-to-day routine of life. There is no doubt the inevitable letdown after a trip, but none-the-less, I am a creature…
Read MoreAbout twenty minutes north-west of the town I grew up in is a little city nestled in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains. The peaks of the mountains looked down…
Read MoreI must say, in the context of all that has happened this past week with the school shooting, pressure canner beef broth seems pretty irrelevant, no? It’s often hard to…
Read MoreDo you ever get melancholy on Sundays? I tend to. After church, I tend to fart around from small project to small project… not usually completing any of them from…
Read MoreHello. Hold on. Baby just moved. I must, literally, run to the bathroom. Dang you, bladder. … Okay. Hello, again. I’m sorry to begin a post with such tasks as…
Read MoreWell hey there! Long time no… talk? I feel like we’ve had some silence between us while we were on vacation last week and I am happy to be back…
Read MoreAnd as experience is the best teacher, I’m here to share with you how to bake better bread at home. Save yourself years of bad loaves. My many baking flops are your gain. Here’s how to bake better bread at home.
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