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During the end of June this summer, I harvested wagon loads of garlic. The first wagon full. Then I got smart and started trimming the stalks at the garlic bed. The second load. I ended up with two full baskets of garlic. Basket one. Basket . . . → Read More: Garlic Confit  24 comments - (Comments are closed)  Garden, Recipes, What we're growing, eating, and doing.  canning, confit, garden, garlic, preserving 
In my recent Día de Muertos post, I mentioned making my own butter for the Pan de Muerto recipe from Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. I wanted to post the procedure here. But first….a “remember when.” In the early 80s my mom had her heart set on a KitchenAid stand mixer. Mom had many careers . . . → Read More: Butter (DIY) 17 comments - (Comments are closed) Nostalgia, Recipes, What we're growing, eating, and doing. butter, cream, DIY, Make Your Own 
I made Pan de Muerto for my Cooks the Books post this month. We all read Barbara Kingsolver’s “Animal, Vegetable, Mineral.” . . . → Read More: “Bread for the Dead” on Día de Muertos 31 comments - (Comments are closed) book review, Clubs and Blog Hops, Garden, Recipes Barbara Kingsolver, Bread, Cook the Books Club, Day of the Dead, Dia de los Muertos, holidays, yeast bread 
Over the years, Halloween has become a major holiday in itself, one worthy of outrageous parties and get-togethers. According to Yahoo news, Americans will spend $8 billion on Halloween. (That seems a bit excessive, right?) When did Halloween morph into such a national spending frenzy? (Segue alert…Here I go into a “when I was young” . . . → Read More: The Ghost of Halloweens Past 
This month’s Food ‘n Flix feature is “A Good Year.” Please check out this recipe to make your own marinated olives. . . . → Read More: Herbed Olives and “A Good Year” 27 comments - (Comments are closed) Clubs and Blog Hops, Recipes, What we're growing, eating, and doing. black olives, Food n' Flix, garlic, herbs, olives 
It is still peppers all the time here at EE. To make room for those delicious Bourbon Pickled Peppers, I was cleaning out the fridge of the previously pickled jalapenos and carrots and using them in chilis and soups to freeze away for weeknight dinners. I had just gotten back from lunch with a dear . . . → Read More: Quick Jalapeno Focaccia 14 comments - (Comments are closed) Recipes, What we're growing, eating, and doing. Bread, focaccia, jalapeno 
Remember a while back we attended a cooking class and had sous vide octopus and Chicken Saltimbocca? That chef/instructor also commented that this water-bath method was the only way to do steaks to perfection. So what happens when you take your husband with you to cooking class? What happens when said husband has a temperature . . . → Read More: Sous Vide Steaks (DIY) 15 comments - (Comments are closed) Recipes, What we're growing, eating, and doing. beef, DIY, flank steak, grilling, sous vide, steak 
Trick or treat….It is time for October’s Secret Recipe Club Reveal. . . . → Read More: Trick or Treat Halloween Bark 37 comments - (Comments are closed) Clubs and Blog Hops, Recipes, What we're growing, eating, and doing. candy, chocolate, Halloween, Secret Recipe Club 
How to make your own chipotles and a hot sauce update. Peppers, peppers, everywhere… . . . → Read More: Chipotles 23 comments - (Comments are closed) Garden, Recipes, What we're growing, eating, and doing. DIY, grilling, hot peppers, jalapenos, Make Your Own, peppers, seasoning, smoke 
As gardeners, we are dependent on the seasons. Although it is well into fall here, we are still having very mild days. This means we are trying to keep our summer produce still producing like tomatoes and peppers. I big ‘o bucket of jalapeno hotness! The peppers seem to love this time of . . . → Read More: Bourbon-Pickled Jalapenos 18 comments - (Comments are closed) Garden, Recipes, What we're growing, eating, and doing. bourbon, canning, honey, jalapenos, peppers, preserving |
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