Category: What we’re growing, eating, and doing.
Patrioticism in the kitchen (or how I was inspired by what was on hand)
I had potatoes I HAD to use and I went to fridge for inspiration.
My favorite weekend pastime…
Listening to NPR, being able to listen to all of “The Spendid Table,” and being inspired to make something delicious.
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,…
Fairy Rings
Our recent heavy rains gave our fall gardens a kick start. As the temperature is slowly falling, my geraniums and some of the herbs are finally look healthy. The fall tomatoes even look like we might get a few fruits before frost. (Frost seems tremendously far away though; the daytime highs are still in the 90s.)…
Saving my Bougainvillea
How to bring a plant back to life…
Roasted Tomato and Eggplant Pasta Sauce
Really tasty pasta sauce recipe.
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. …
Too much okra?
A great recipe to help stock your freezer with the summer harvest.
Great Garden Shop
Yesterday I wrote about our trip to Houston and it being non-stereotypical (because I LOVE my in-laws), but I do have to confess that we did fit the Texas stereotype in one sense—we went to the shooting range. (And, I am not talking about photos.) Isn’t it a requirement to carry a gun in Texas? We…
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…