Is your garden over flowing? My greens keep giving and the next round of crops (tomatoes & zucchini) are beginning to ripen en mass. Unless I want to freeze greens in bulk I need to make quick use them. The best ways I know to consume copious amount of greens in one sitting are to …
Cool Blue Potato Salad
Happily browsing the shiny aisles of my local grocery store, a beautiful basket of blue potatoes stopped me in my tracks. How can I resist tight skins over firm blue flesh? I couldn’t. Those little babies belong to me. I have a weakness for potatoes in any form: red, white, blue, mashed, baked, or boiled. Lucky …
Minted Green & Grain Salad
As you may be aware, I am eating an anti-inflammatory diet to help answer a few health questions. The bulk of my diet, aside from a nummy smoothie, has been greens and sprouted grains. In order to make life easier on myself, I end the weekend by prepping food. This is as easy as unloading …
2 Wrongs Make the Right BBQ Sauce.
Fellow jelly folks can probably relate to having a number of un-gelled jars lurking around. Sure, I can call it syrup and pretend I meant to do that, but I would just be lying. And truthfully, I am not a very good liar. Instead, I like to repurpose my mistakes. Turn them into something spectacular …
Spicy and Sweet Spring Salad
Ta-Dah! Baby arugula, breakfast radishes, chives, and violets. This is my very first garden salad of the year. And FINALLY! I might add. I am so tired of frozen vegies. Yes, I could go purchase all the fresh veg I want (and I do) but it just doesn’t taste the same as my own hard …
Thai Coconut Soup at the Market
This is my favorite volunteer day soup. Beginning last fall, I spend a couple of hours every Wednesday morning hanging out at the South Royalton Market. Actually it qualifies as volunteering but really it is a great opportunity to ‘get off the farm’ and socialize. The South Royalton Market is a full-service grocery store offering …
Oxtail Stew, Cheering Up A Dreary Day
Today is a dreary New England day. I thought that I could transform it from dreary into cozy with a bowl of oxtails and a loaf of bread. Truthfully, I haven’t seen much oxtail up here, so when I saw it at the market, I jumped on it. Is it just that I haven’t noticed …
Guest Post: Potlicker Salmon
Today's post is brought to you today by one of my greatest partners in food crime...... Guest post: Potlicker Salmon My dear friend the Potlicker has been making some of the coolest jellies over the time we have known each other. We started eating them together standing next to the bread warmer at a restaurant …
Leftovers = Fiddlehead Forbidden Fried Rice
I live for leftovers! I always make more food than Tall Dark & Handsome and I will eat just because I am planning on leftovers. Unfortunately, sometimes a little bit of this and a little bit of that will take up a whole lot of fridge space. Sometimes my leftover meals are complete failures like …
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Niçoise Stuffed Eggs
Now that it is BBQ weather, parties are planned and our social scene is booming! Lately, when we go to a party, I bring a few jars of jelly or something else from my canning pantry. I am beginning to wonder if my friends are tired of me trying out new jelly flavors on them. …
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