Cooking a fresh pumpkin for baking - it's easy! September and October are always SO busy for us. We become slaves to the garden and the freezer and canner. Have to get all that fresh produce, including fresh pumpkin, taken care of! It makes for a lot of very tasty eating over the winter months. Still, I sometimes ask myself just who had the bright idea of planting all this stuff? On the other hand, it is awfully nice to look around on a January morning and find that we have all I need to ... Read More about How to Cook a Fresh Pumpkin
Garden Fresh
Fresh Tomato Vinaigrette
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
Refrigerator Bread and Butter Pickles
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
Warm Green Bean Tomato Salad
Salads don't have to be cold This Warm Green Bean Tomato Salad proves that point very nicely. Full of garden fresh veggies, topped with a lively vinaigrette - it's good eats, summer-style. Our favorite kind of food! If you don't have a garden of your own, just about every Farmer's Market in the country will have all of these veggies right now, so getting ahold of the ingredients won't be too difficult. Great for picnics This would be great to take to a cookout or picnic this weekend ... Read More about Warm Green Bean Tomato Salad
Easy Tomato Sauce for Canning & Freezing
An Easy Tomato Sauce is a must if you garden It's that time of year with which I have a love/hate relationship. The tomatoes are starting to come in the back door in multiple 5-gallon buckets now. That means that no matter what else is going on, I have to deal with them. Mostly because we only have so many buckets, and there are plenty more tomatoes where those came from. This easy sauce method helps me get through a lot of tomatoes quickly. It's been a challenging year in the ... Read More about Easy Tomato Sauce for Canning & Freezing
Lemon Garlic Zucchini
Do you know what special event we are celebrating today? I bet you don't... It is "Sneak Some Zucchini Onto Your Neighbor's Porch Night". Woohoo! This is an actual thing, people. A gentleman in Pennsylvania, by the name of Tom Roy, came up with the idea - there is even a Facebook Page for it! As any gardener can tell you, this is an easy-to-celebrate day because in August we are losing the battle with the zukes. Despite our best efforts to pick them small, there are always a few ... Read More about Lemon Garlic Zucchini
Cucumber and Avocado Salad with Feta
Try this delicious idea! It is the beginning of cucumber season here in Upstate NY. I went looking through my old posts for a really great cucumber recipe to bring up here to the top of things and this one seemed like a great choice. I hope you enjoy it all over again! We wait all year for the garden to begin filling with cucumbers. When it finally does, I am ready with a ton of fresh ideas for how to enjoy them. I've been dreaming about this salad since about February! I suppose I could ... Read More about Cucumber and Avocado Salad with Feta
Sauteed Radishes with Sea Salt & Lime
Sauteed Radishes with Sea Salt & Lime? Really? Just read on, my friend and discover this rewind recipe, brought up from the archives! Now that it's July, we're starting to get quite a few fresh veggies from the garden. It's the time of year we dream about in January. It seems like every day there is a new vegetable, ready to enjoy. And while we've been eating them for a few weeks now, radishes are starting to give up a real bumper crop this week. I really like radishes, and we ... Read More about Sauteed Radishes with Sea Salt & Lime
Garlic Scape Chimichurri Sauce
This is a refreshed post, brought up from the archives because the garlic scapes are ready to harvest just now and this is an amazing way to use them. I hope everyone enjoys it this time too. While I was away, constantly inhaling that unmatchable perfume that is only found at the top of a newborn baby's head, Larry had to cut all of the garlic scapes from our over 200 heads of garlic. Garlic scapes are the flower of a garlic plant, and leaving them in place robs the garlic bulb of ... Read More about Garlic Scape Chimichurri Sauce
Chive Lemon Vinaigrette
Chive Lemon Vinaigrette is a reboot post, brought up from the archives for a new season. It's a bright fresh addition to springtime menus and if your garden is like mine, this is prime time for chives. I hope you enjoy it! Chives are a most agreeable herb to grow. This Chive Lemon Vinaigrette is only one reason you should grow them, and it's a very compelling reason indeed. Plant chives once - enjoy years of delicious flavor and a pretty plant in the bargain. My current plants ... Read More about Chive Lemon Vinaigrette
Chili Roasted Butternut Squash
This is a rewind post, brought up to the top of the blog because of reader popularity. If you haven't seen it before, I hope you enjoy it today! Time for another piece of the puzzle - the Thanksgiving Dinner puzzle! How does your family "do" Thanksgiving? Do you have the same treasured old stand-bys year after year, or do you like to find the latest trends? Does one person do all the cooking, or do you split things up, with different people bringing things to share? Do you travel? Stay ... Read More about Chili Roasted Butternut Squash
Turkey Stuffed Delicata Squash
Rewind: Turkey Stuffed Delicata Squash This is a rewind post, brought up from the archives and given new life here at the front of the blog - hope that you enjoy it! Delicata squash have become a favorite of ours, because of their delicious sweet and rich flesh. They are similar to acorn squash, but with a deeper flavor and without the ridges that can make acorn squash difficult to prepare. I have seen lot of recipes for both Delicata and acorn squash that say the skins are edible, but we ... Read More about Turkey Stuffed Delicata Squash