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Easy Citrus Jam

Breakfast· Canning· Citrus· Condiments· Easy Recipes· Fruit· Jams Jellies Preserves· Recipes· Sauces, Dips and Spreads· Vegan· Vegetarian

Easy Citrus Jam brings in the sunshine Our winter has not been bad at all this year.  For people who like to work with seasonal ingredients though, February in the Northeast can be a challenge.  But Easy Citrus Jam fixes that!   We can't grow citrus fruit outdoors ever up here in the Northern states, so this is one case where we have to rely on the seasonality of ingredients from other regions.  I make no apologies for enjoying citrus fruit in the winter.  It helps a person feel ... Read More about Easy Citrus Jam

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Easy Guacamole

Appetizers· Condiments· Easy Recipes· Sauces, Dips and Spreads· Snacks· The Basics· Vegan· Vegetarian

Easy Guacamole is ready in no time at all Saying that this is an Easy Guacamole kind of implies that Guacamole is difficult to make.  It's not, of course, but this method makes it even easier. It's nearly as good too. In the summertime, when we have lots of great veggies from the garden it's different.  I use fresh tomatoes, onions, and garlic.  I basically make a pico de gallo and mix it with mashed avocado.  But it's February, and I don't have anything fresh from the garden.  I could ... Read More about Easy Guacamole

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Caramelized Broccoli with Roasted Garlic Vinaigrette

Condiments· Dinner· Dressings and Vinaigrettes· Side Dishes· Vegan· Vegetables· Vegetarian· Weeknight Meals

Caramelized Broccoli with Roasted Garlic Vinaigrette is a mouthful! And a pretty delicious mouthful at that.  This is a tried and tested method of preparing vegetables that our family has enjoyed for years. Caramelized Broccoli with Roasted Garlic Vinaigrette is a two-part recipe.  First, you make the Roasted Garlic Vinaigrette, and then you make the Caramelized Broccoli.  Both parts of this dish are useful in other meals and recipes, and we will be getting to that. Fresh broccoli is ... Read More about Caramelized Broccoli with Roasted Garlic Vinaigrette

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Homemade Apple Sauce

Condiments· Desserts· Food Preservation· Fruit· Garden Fresh· Side Dishes· Snacks· The Basics

The Basics Series - Homemade Apple Sauce Homemade Apple Sauce is one of the first things I remember helping with when I was a kid. Both my Mom and grandmother made applesauce. Often they did it together, and, as the kids it was often our job to squish the apples through the old-fashioned Chinois with the wooden pestle.  I don't know what has become of the chinois, but I still have Grandma's pestle. It's handy for all sorts of percussive tasks in the kitchen. Because of that, I admit it is a ... Read More about Homemade Apple Sauce

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Basil Pesto

Condiments· Dressings and Vinaigrettes· Freezing· Garden Fresh· Nuts· Pasta· Quick Meals· Sauces, Dips and Spreads· The Basics

Classic Pesto or Basil Pesto? This could be called "Classic Pesto". I'm pretty sure Basil Pesto is the classic combination of ingredients to make this bright and delicious addition to your repertoire of sauces.  If your garden is anything like mine, basil is abundant this time of year.  I pinch off my basil plants throughout the summer, using the leaves in salads and veggies and pasta dishes. It's prime basil time right now So now, I have some beautiful, compact plants with lots of bright ... Read More about Basil Pesto

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Fresh Tomato Vinaigrette

Condiments· Dressings and Vinaigrettes· Garden Fresh· Grilling & Barbeque· Salads· Sauces, Dips and Spreads· The Basics· Vegetarian

  You will love the flavor in this Fresh Tomato Vinaigrette! As I've mentioned in a few recent posts, we've not had the best gardening summer.  Regardless, we have plenty of veggies making their way into the house still. It makes for busy days, getting everything preserved for the winter, so that nothing goes to waste. This Fresh Tomato Vinaigrette is the result of a few extra tomatoes lying on the kitchen counter at dinner time. It just makes sense - a vinaigrette is mainly an ... Read More about Fresh Tomato Vinaigrette

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Refrigerator Bread and Butter Pickles

Condiments· Food Preservation· Garden Fresh· Pickles· Recipes

Bread and Butter Pickles you don't have to can! When I originally published this recipe, an unbelievable 10 years ago, I was an avowed Bread and Butter Pickle hater. Haters gonna hate, am I right? But not anymore. I changed my tune, I switched horses in mid-stream, and I turned over a new leaf. I can admit when I have been wrong, and I was SO wrong about this. What, you might ask is all of this drama about? It was Bread and Butter Pickles that I disliked. I would have said hated, ... Read More about Refrigerator Bread and Butter Pickles

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Garlic Scape Chimichurri Sauce

Condiments· Dressings and Vinaigrettes· Freezing· Garden Fresh· Grilling & Barbeque· Recipes· Sauces, Dips and Spreads

The best topping for any steak! We grow a LOT of garlic.  We eat a lot of it and sell some, plus it's good for the chickens. That does give us a LOT of Garlic Scapes to deal with though. Garlic scapes are the flower of a garlic plant, and leaving them in place robs the garlic bulb of growth. The plant will put more energy into maturing a flower, which will eventually fling seeds around - nature's way of growing more garlic. Our way is to separate the cloves and plant them, but nature takes a ... Read More about Garlic Scape Chimichurri Sauce

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Quick Pickled Radishes

Appetizers· Condiments· Pickles· Recipes· Vegetables

It does not get much more seasonal that fresh radishes. We've been enjoying a bumper crop of them this spring. A few springs ago, I shared this Sauteed Radishes with Sea Salt & Lime recipe, that we still enjoy at least a few times each spring. Cooking radishes does something really special, that we never dreamed of till we tried it, so I hope you will check that recipe out too. And I am always happy to eat freshly pulled radishes with just a bit of coarse salt, or sliced very thin and ... Read More about Quick Pickled Radishes

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Jalapeno Garlic Dill Pickles

Condiments· Food Preservation· Garden Fresh· Pickles· Recipes· Vegetables

I think this is the busiest time of year for any gardener. As the summer winds down, we have to get everything put up for winter - currently that consists mostly of squishing tons of tomatoes into various jars and running the canner for hours every day. I try to mix of what I am making, so it doesn't become too tedious - today it's crushed tomatoes. But before I move over to the kitchen to get those going, I want to share my fast and easy recipe for these Jalapeno Garlic Dill Pickles. It's a ... Read More about Jalapeno Garlic Dill Pickles

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Raspberry Preserves {no pectin recipe}

Breakfast· Canning· Condiments· Food Preservation· Fruit· Jams Jellies Preserves· Recipes

It has been a mighty busy summer around here. A good busy though. In addition to having a bigger garden and selling at the Farmer's Market, we found a new church that we are trying, I got into essential oils [okay, that should probably say I became instantly obsessed with essential oils!] and now, any day, we expect to be called suddenly to drive 3 hours south to watch our granddaughter while her little brother gets born! I am trying to get everything from the garden put up for winter in ... Read More about Raspberry Preserves {no pectin recipe}

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Lemon Garlic Salt

Citrus· Condiments· Recipes

It has been a busy couple of weeks here at home. Larry retired at the end of August, and though you might think that would mean we have more time, we actually seem to have less than ever. A lot of things got put off all summer, because we kept saying "We'll have more time in September." Well September is here, and we have to get it all done now. Then the influx of family began, as it does every two years or so, when we try to get as many people together as possible for a nice long visit. That ... Read More about Lemon Garlic Salt

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