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
Pies
Molasses Apple Cobbler
A perfect last minute Thanksgiving Dessert Things are pretty exciting around here right now. We had barely finished our fall cleanup chores, when deer season started. Then we ordered a half of a pastured pig. And a split quarter of an organic grass fed steer. And on the second day of deer season, Larry got a deer. So - we had to buy another freezer, which meant we had to completely reorganize our spare room, which also doubles as a spare bedroom. This is all part of our determination to stop ... Read More about Molasses Apple Cobbler
S’more Chocolate Pie
It's a little ironic that only days after mentioning how little my husband loves chocolate, I am offering yet another chocolate dessert that you just might like to make for your Valentine. The fact is, I like chocolate - actually, I love chocolate and I know that lots of other people do too. Maybe even you, am I right? You know it's true. And, when you get right down to, it even my Valentine was impressed by this particular chocolate thing. That is partly because it's a pie and the guy loves ... Read More about S’more Chocolate Pie
Summer Fruit Galette
From a fresh food point of view, I don't think there is a better time of year than early August. It seems like everything is ripe, and ready for the plucking. Our garden is bursting with cucumbers, squash, beets, green beans, the first of the tomatoes and sweet peppers, along with the already harvested onions, garlic and shallots. I always feel like a millionaire when the leeks are ready to eat, and ours now are. The herb garden is ready to add it's own special touches to everything else we reap ... Read More about Summer Fruit Galette
Bourbon Pecan Pie
Bourbon Pecan Pie - just the name sounds delicious, doesn't it? But, first things first. If you were a reader of my old blog, you have certainly heard me lament about my inability to produce a pie crust what was both edible and presentable. Despite years of living next door to one of the world's premier pie bakers - my grandmother - my pie crusts were pathetic affairs. In my memory, watching grandma roll out a pie crust was like those really old Warner's Brother's cartoons, where little ... Read More about Bourbon Pecan Pie