I have a passion for both spicy food and comfort food, so I’ve come to love chile rellenos. What I don’t like about them is how fatty they can be. I decided to try a variation on chile rellenos with Southern favorite filling: shrimp and grits. Instead of a stuffing the chile with cheese and [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Chiles rellenos with a Southern accent
Posted in Cooking And Baking, gardening, locavore, Uncategorized, whole grains, tagged chile rellenos, Food, Hatch chiles, shrimp and grits on August 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Pickles, Pickles, Pickles!
Posted in canning, cucumber, Food, frugal living, gardening, locavore, Pickle, pickling, tagged canning, cucumbers, Food, gardening, locavore, pickles on August 23, 2009 | 45 Comments »
I’ll be posting more pickle recipes in 2010. Come back to visit in July and August! In just 3 days, Sunday through Tuesday, I picked 16 pounds of cucumbers from my garden. Then I picked 7 more pounds from Friday through today (Sunday again). It all started when I went out of town last week [...]
Hiatus Explained
Posted in Uncategorized on August 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Well, dear readers, you may have noticed that I hit the blog ground running pretty well and then disappeared. Like many historic homesteaders, I make most of my cash off the homestead, in my case as an educator. Long story short, this blog fell by the wayside when I found myself teaching an overload while [...]
