What would Thanksgiving be without homemade cranberry sauce? It’s the quickest & easiest dish to make, and tastes soooooo much better than canned. You can even make it a day or two ahead of time. Go ahead & make a test batch now, and see how easy it really is! You’ll find a printer-friendly version of the…
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Great Green Sauce
I had an overabundance of green peppers & green tomatoes that I brought in just before a hard frost last week. I froze quite a few of them, used some others in Green Tomato Sauté, and still had some left over. So I thought, you can make sauce from everything else (tomatoes, Basil, dill, roasted…
Basil-Walnut Pesto
How can such an amazingly simple recipe produce such mouth-watering results? Fresh ingredients, that’s how! I had the incredibly good fortune of having an abundance of fresh basil from my Aerogarden at the same time my garden’s snow peas were ready, on an evening of perfect weather for eating out on the porch. With very little time and effort, we…
Green Tomato Sauté
We had our first real frost this week. Considerably later than usual, so I’m not complaining! There’s still a lot left in the garden, though. I figured the Swiss chard would be okay with a light frost, as would beets & carrots. The rest, I covered with frost covers & an old duvet cover that fits…
Fresh Pumpkin Pie
I’m just a hobbyist cook. But I do know there’s one thing I do better than some professional chefs, and that’s pumpkin pie. How do I know this? Because a few years ago, a local reporter interviewed chefs for an article on pumpkin pie. All the chefs used canned pumpkin. All of them. Now I ask you, have…
Fresh Whipped Cream
The perfect topping for the perfect pie doesn’t come out of a can. And really, it takes less than 5 minutes to whip some cream yourself. Unless you only have a hand mixer, in which case you’re either about to get some exercise, or you’ve already decided to skip this post & head to the…
Radish Salad With Summer Squash
It’s raining radishes! They make a perfect base for this summer salad. It’s got a great complement of crunchy, sweet, and snappy, a perfect side for Black & Bleu burgers from Primal (seriously, if you’re in the 518, pick up a couple of these delicious burgers. Cracked pepper seasoning around the outside, bleu cheese incorporated into the burger. Perfection!)…
Grilled Mojito Chicken Thighs
Yesterday was Mojito night at our house. My spearmint plant is thriving, in spite of neglect, so I decided to use mint in everything I made for dinner – even the olive oil for the bread. Each use was a bit different, so each dish had its own flavor. The Strawberry Mojito Salad was an…
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