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Here we are mid-summer and the garden gives plenty. We have armloads of lettuces, lots of broccoli, peas & herbs, and finally green tomatoes are starting to form! If our garden cooperates this year we hope to make tomato basil jam, hot yellow tomato-pepper jam, and green tomato jam. I am sure that anyone who …
This pretty pink jelly is the result of a local weed problem. Knotweed is an invasive plant that quickly takes over wastelands and riverbeds. My attitude towards this invasive species is that it is good for nothing . . . except for eating of course! Lucky for knotweed, people like me will come along and …
Finally! We are finding a groove in our new kitchen. Rocking and rolling along, it seems hard to believe that we started all of it at our kitchen table. The BEST thing about having my home kitchen back is that I no longer run the risk for pepper contamination. I have a pepper problem, an …
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Here are a few pictures from March including some spring snow and lots of cheesy goodness. Most of the cheese pictures are from the Ahead of the Curd event on Sunday. Find us in Brooklyn at the NYC Craft Beer Festival March 30th
Yet another snow storm is on the way. I love watching the snow fall but I like swimming and gardening too. The seasons are trying to change and so is my life. Some of the things that brought me to food blogging have disappeared or shifted. I began cooking and thinking about food as a …
Hopefully pictures speak more than words. Tall Dark & Handsome and I have been busy traveling to craft shows and visiting family. Destination: Home state of Florida. Kissimmee: We celebrated the wedding of my youngest cousin in style at the amazing home of her talented sister. Guests exclaimed "If Pinterest were a place, it would …
The colors of fall are beginning to fade here in VT. It is past time that I begin to put my garden to bed but I still have veggies to harvest. It has been a big month for little jelly and finding the time to spend more than 20 minutes in the garden can be …
Today I would like to put aside my planned post about sprouting lentils to say a word about my beer jelly. I know, I know! Please quell the outcry! The lentils will come soon. Farmer’s market season has begun and a whole new crowd is being exposed to beer jelly and I get a number …
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