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{Baking/Preserving} SLOW ROASTED TOMATOES ... Preserve the Bounty Week # 2

posted August 17, 2010 in Passionate About Baking

“It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.”Lewis Grizzard Tomatoes form an integral part of our everyday food, often like the butter on our daily bread.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my (read full article)

Basil Preserved in Olive Oil

posted August 16, 2010 in Healthy Green Kitchen

For week 2 of Preserve the Bounty, Jenny challenged us to preserve some of our summer produce in oil or another fat. I’ve put together various combinations of garden-fresh herbs, calendula (marigold) flowers, sun-dried tomatoes, and chile peppe (read full article)

{Product Review & Recipe} Cottage Cheese & Bell Pepper Wraps, Pickled Peppers and Gulab Jamuns - Strange Bedfellows? Maybe ...

posted August 15, 2010 in Passionate About Baking

"Life is the sum of all your choices"Albert Camus Given the choice, I would cook and bake all day with olive oil as my happy cooking medium ... SIGH ... if only I didn't find the price a little... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website (read full article)

{No Bake} OTTOLENGHI'S PRESERVED LIMES ... Preserve the Bounty

posted August 09, 2010 in Passionate About Baking

This August, I signed up for the Preserve the Bounty Challenge hosted at Nourished Kitchen which is an intensive 5-week challenge designed to teach you how to preserve the bounty of summer without... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my web (read full article)

Summer's Bounty

posted August 06, 2010 in A Foodie's Quest

What can be easier, or more pleasant, than making a quick mixed salad with whatever you have at hand? The French call mixed salads une salade composée -isn't that sweet? As if the salad were a musical composition, all the flavours melding into visua (read full article)

Naturally Pickled Green Beans with Radishes, Red Onions and Thyme

posted August 03, 2010 in A Little Bit of Spain in Iowa

My favorite part of growing my own food and visiting my local farmers market this year has been coming up with new recipes for preserving the harvest naturally.  Here is a great recipe to preserve the ever growing bounty of green beans. A couple (read full article)

Lacto-Fermentation - A traditional and natural way to preserve natures bounty

posted April 02, 2010 in A Little Bit of Spain in Iowa

With all of the gardening and preserving of food that I enjoy to store up for the winter, I wanted to share with you a traditional form of canning that has increased in popularity over the years. Lacto-fermentation.  Just the word fermentation can (read full article)

Preserving Cucumbers

posted September 15, 2009 in A Little Bit of Spain in Iowa

In the next couple of weeks I'll be sharing all the different way to preserve natures bounty.  I'm still in the middle of preserving chaos, but I wanted to start as my pictures are mounting up on my desktop! Preserving vegetables and fruits does tak (read full article)

August 8th - Zucchini Food Holiday, Use Your Food Dehydrator

posted August 06, 2009 in Food-Dehydrator

August 8th is Sneak Some Zucchini Onto Your Neighbor's Porch Day. Apparently, this bizarre food day started because a) zucchini is one of the most prolific plants in the gardening world and b) early August is about the time that home gardeners become (read full article)

King or Kamikaze, Basil Lillet Cocktail Rules

posted August 05, 2009 in SippitySup- Serious Fun Food

Are you knee deep in basil? Did you really mean to plant, buy, beg, borrow or steal quite so much of it? It’s like something just came over you right? Well you are not alone. There is an Old (read full article)

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