What do you make when life hands you apples? Like the half bushel of them that I picked up on sale because they were starting get a bit on the old side? You have to search pretty hard to find something better to do with them than make this Lemon Ginger Apple Butter. There is so much flavor here –…
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Carrots. Healthy & full of vitamins. Fiber. Antioxidants, probably. Home grown with all natural gardening methods. Sweat of our brow and all that good stuff. I know what we should do with these nice, healthy carrots – let’s make some into cookies! Yay! Chewy Carrot Cookies! Yay! Seriously – we do eat a lot of carrots. We grow a lot…
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This time of year, I starting shifting how I cook. Cocktail hour on the porch requires a jacket and shoes, and something delectable baking in the oven is nice when we finally wander back into the house. We go from grilling and salads to something along the lines of comforting cheesy casseroles with combos of pasta, veggies and whatever protein…
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Why in the heck do we find making caramel to be such a daunting task? I suppose it might be the risk of splashing oneself with molten sugar, which will peel the skin right off you. Or the fear of burning it all and making a big mess. Or of wasting some rather pricey ingredients if you do fail to…
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The stream of ripe tomatoes that ends in my kitchen is starting slow down now. I always have mixed feelings about that happening. On one hand, I’m heartily and truly tired of doing up tomatoes for this coming winter. I’ve got somewhere in the neighborhood of 65 quarts of various forms of tomatoes, from sauce and stewed, to diced, to…
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