Tag: garden
Pickled what?
A pickled grape experience—really.
Rustic Roasted Eggplant Dip
Recipe for Rustic Roasted Eggplant Dip with Fresh Herbs
My love affair with daily print
Spicy Okra with Summer Vegetables Recipe
A cocktail with a twist
Citris Basiltini Recipe
Lavender
Lavender Sugar and Herb Lavender Salt
Getting ready for the autumn garden
Over the past four days, we have gotten the autumn garden prepped and planted. We currently have it looking great, but I know the weeds will be creeping in. I hope we can keep a handle on it because some of the garden beds have been overrun with weeds this summer. Where you see the…
Zinnias
A favorite pastime of mine is looking though my prized family photo albums at sepia tinted pictures of my ancestry. This trait comes from my grandma. My grandma and I would look through her photo albums and she would narrate everyone’s stories for me. (I know we did this a lot in the summer when she…
Freezing fresh pesto
I trimmed up my basil plants and ended up making two batches of pesto. (I used part of this recipe for the green bean recipe posted on June 15.) I have never tried freezing it but my sister assures me this works. She freezes the pesto in ice cube trays for a taste of summer later in the…
Slow roasted tomatoes and fresh green beans
I LOVE the taste of roasted tomatoes. (See “Lasagna from Scratch.”) Roasting makes the flavor much more intense. So, I wondered about REALLY slow roasting them. I just went to our mid-week farmers’ market yesterday and purchased about 3 lbs. of cherry Romas. (I have some planted in the garden, but notice I said I…
What to do with all the garlic?
Garlic-Rosemary Jelly Recipe