Tag: Recipe

  • My favorite weekend pastime…

    My favorite weekend pastime…

    Listening to NPR, being able to listen to all of “The Spendid Table,” and being inspired to make something delicious.

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  • Pickling again

    Pickling again

    I have been pickling all summer—homegrown cucumbers, carrots, green beans, and even grapes.  (I also made some “cheater pickles;”  see “My Favorite Uncle’s Pickles.”)  Now it was time for okra. Finally, I made it to the garden to pick “baby” okra—meaning, I had been picking regularly and I hadn’t overlooked any monster pods!  (It never fails,…

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  • Roasted Tomato and Eggplant Pasta Sauce

    Really tasty pasta sauce recipe.

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  • Dark Sweet Cherry Pie

    Dark Sweet Cherry Pie

    We have a friend with connections.  She is always putting us on to plant sales, fitness equipment sales, and now, fabulous fruit from Bithell Farms in Oregon.  We tacked along our order with hers (and others) and ordered fourteen pounds of Oregon dark sweet cherries and seven pounds of blueberries.  They came in last week. …

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  • Too much okra?

    Too much okra?

    A great recipe to help stock your freezer with the summer harvest.

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  • Texas Citrus Salsa

    Texas Citrus Salsa

    Last weekend we went to Houston to visit my in-laws.  Stereotypically, I know that a visit to the in-laws is a dreaded event, but not with mine.  I love to visit them and my mother-in-law is a great cook.  She shared a couple of recipes with me that I want to pass along because they were…

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  • Refreshing Citrus Rice Salad

    Really cool and refreshing salad for the end of summer.

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  • Roasting Beets

    Roasting Beets

    Roasted Baby Beet Salad with Goat Cheese Recipe

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  • More experimenting with ice cream.

    Cake batter ice cream recipe

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  • Become a Saucy Mama (or Papa)

    Become a Saucy Mama (or Papa)

    My first contest! Enter here.

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