Sometimes I think that nature gives us warm, sweet flavors that keep in storage from fall to winter to balance the chilly days until spring. Winter squash and pumpkin have those comforting flavors, and I can’t resist enjoying them in not only pie but also in soup, bread, and even pasta. Today let’s try pumpkin [...]
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Savory Pumpkin Ravioli, two ways (plus really easy sweet pumpkin pasties!)
Posted in acorn squash, appetizer, butternut squash, cheese, Cooking And Baking, dessert, dinner, dinner, Food, garlic, ginger, herbs, Italian, pasta, preserving the harvest, pumpkin, sweet things, winter squash, tagged dinner, Food, pumpkin pasties, recipes, side dishes, vegetarian on January 30, 2011 | 4 Comments »
My favorite jelly: a teaser
Posted in chile, Christmas, Christmas food, Cooking And Baking, cranberries, Food, frugal living, fruit, gardening, organic food, organic gardening, peppers, peppers, preserving the harvest, recipes, red pepper, red peter pepper, sweet things, tagged Food, recipes on October 11, 2010 | 9 Comments »
Like a brilliant jewel, pepper jelly made with red chiles and cranberry juice tantalizes for fall feasts and Christmas presents. I’ll post the full recipe in a couple of days. It’s incredibly easy and oh-so-delicious with cream cheese and crackers, on cornbread, or even as a sweet-sour-and-hot drizzle sauce for chicken, fish, or [...]
Back-to-school breakfast from the garden: zucchini bread with pepitas
Posted in baking, bread, breakfast, buttermilk, cake, comfort food, Cooking And Baking, dried fruit, Food, frugal living, gardening, kefir, organic food, organic gardening, preserving the harvest, raisins, recipes, summer squash, sweet things, walnut, whole grains, zucchini, tagged bread, breakfast, children, family, Food, recipes on August 24, 2010 | 2 Comments »
August and September end the lazy days of slow breakfasts, but they don’t have to end good breakfasts. For a quick, healthy breakfast or afternoon snack, bake a loaf of whole-grain, low-fat, higher protein but still moist and delicious zucchini bread, chocked full of good stuff like pepitas, which contain healthy fatty acids. Take a [...]
Squash Casserole, without opening a can
Posted in butter, cheese, comfort food, cream, dinner, dinner, eggs, family, Food, gardening, onions, organic food, organic gardening, preserving the harvest, recipes, Southern food, summer, summer squash, whole grains, tagged dinner, Food, recipes on August 22, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Recently a Canadian reader, Anita, who has fallen in love with Southern food asked me for my squash casserole recipe. I said I’d be happy to oblige but would need a few weeks for two reasons: first, the squash crop around here was in the summer lull (argh, squash bugs!), but most importantly because I [...]
Excalibur! my new dehydrator is here.
Posted in apple, preserving the harvest, tomato, turkey, tagged cooking, Food, gardening, organic gardening, recipes on August 10, 2010 | 14 Comments »
A few years ago I tried my hand at dehydrating, but I went with a relatively low-end dehydrator. I quickly learned my mistake. My tomatoes developed mold before they finished drying, and the dehydrator died while we were drying apples. We finished the apples, complete with autumn spices, in the clothes dryer on the sweater [...]
