As the family reunion in Taos nears, I am experimenting with different gelato recipes. Besides taking all the kids to a farmers’ market to buy what we cook for dinner, another foodie family function will be gelato night. Each of us has a small, electric ice cream maker that we each will bring. Each family . . . → Read More: Getting ready for family gelato night
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Step 1: Start the sauce. Try roasting your local or home-grown tomatoes, garlic and onions in the oven with olive oil and whatever fresh herbs you have on hand. (I got this idea from a friend who is also a “localvore.”) Add salt and pepper and roast in a 400 degree oven for about an . . . → Read More: Lasagna from scratch, locally  One comment - (Comments are closed)  Recipes, What we're growing, eating, and doing.  EATING LOCAL, Recipe Another valuable thing we learned from Animal, Vegetable, Miracle was how easy it is to make our own cheese. Who knew? We haven’t gotten really extravagant in our cheese making, but we have made pounds of mozzarella and some ricotta. Using both of these homemade cheeses makes an out-of-this-world lasagna. (Especially when you make your . . . → Read More: Making Cheese Rustic Country Bread Recipe–Don’t worry, this is an easy one! . . . → Read More: Whose afraid of yeast? We were recently in Kansas City (I love this town!) and visited a couple of new eateries. A friend of a friend knows the owner of Garozzo’s so we decided to try it. We went to the original location in Columbus Park and as promised in the friend’s recommendation, it was just like The Sopranos. . . . → Read More: KC Restaurants Comments are closed Adventures, Restaurants and Eateries, What we're growing, eating, and doing. Kansas City, restaurant OK–Have you ever delved into your family history to wish that perhaps you hadn’t have been so inquisitive? As I was working on my new page last night for this site, “Cookbooks that I Can’t Live Without” (see Foodie Reads), I listed one from my grandmother’s collection, a collection of about five or six cookbooks . . . → Read More: Skeletons in the closet! I had some shelled peas that I needed to use tonight. I perused the Internet for fresh peas recipes and found some good ones at www.bhg.com. But, a lot of these recipes were for snow peas and I needed a recipe for shelled ones. Then it hit me! I usually throw frozen peas into Spaghetti . . . → Read More: Thinking about peas (again)… We were really worried about our greenhouse and the garden while we were gone to Iowa. Luckily, everything was fine when we got back. A few baskets were dry in the greenhouse, but I think everything will recover nicely. The garden did grow a new crop of weeds that needs to be dealt with . . . → Read More: Everything is fine… Seeds Savers in Decorah, Iowa Made it to Seed Savers today. What a beautiful drive. Of course it was early spring in northern Iowa so there was not a lot growing. I had heard that by the end of summer the side of the barn is completely covered with Grandpa . . . → Read More: Pilgrimage We have a tendency to over plant, crowding as many seeds as we can in a row. When every seed comes up, it is really hard for us to thin out the plants. Anything that grows in our garden deserves to live! I know it is not a good gardening habit. So, when we planted . . . → Read More: Crop of Carrots |
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