I didn’t grow up eating figs, well, except for Fig Newtons, you’re darn tootin! If you weren’t lucky enough to have a fig tree or two growing in your yard then this little bloggin’ about figs will probably relate to you. Here’s my figs story and an easy preserved figs recipe. For me, figs are … Read more
Got peaches? Our peach crop wasn’t anything near great this year, but our two little peach trees did produce enough peaches that I could make a batch of spicy peach chutney. I am so glad I decided on the chutney for the use of our few peaches. This stuff is incredible and has a thousand … Read more
These colors look amazingly delicious … and I’ll let you in on a little-known secret – this pickled vegetable sandwich slaw IS delicious! In the past Deb from Smitten Kitchen posted pictures and her take on a pickled vegetable sandwich slaw recipe for vegetable slaw. Let me tell you this, it’s a poetic food explosion when one … Read more
My Chief gardener started bringing lettuce from the garden a couple of weeks ago. This past week he brought in the first basket full of yellow squash and cucumbers. Today, I received my second BIG basket of cucumbers. It is time to start pickling! Last summer our cucumbers caught a nasty bug and died on … Read more
OOPS! I received an email from my friend, and loyal reader, Cheryl. “Did you perhaps leave out an ingredient in your Apple Crisp recipe? I have a very nice apple soup cooling in my kitchen”, she wrote. Oh no! I immediately looked up my Autumn’s Caramel Apple Crisp recipe to see what in the world I had … Read more
Last spring my neighbor Gaye was telling me about a squash relish that she makes and serves with pinto beans and cornbread. Growing up in Nebraska my mom would make white navy beans and ham with cornbread, but it wasn’t until I married my Southern-born husband that I actually cooked pinto beans. I was a … Read more