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 [...]
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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 »
Roasted Vegetables Fusilli with Italian Sausage and Goat Cheese
Posted in beets, butter, cast iron, cheese, chile, comfort food, Community Supported Agriculture, Cooking And Baking, CSA, dinner, dinner, Food, frugal living, gardening, herbs, Italian, leeks, mushrooms, onions, organic food, organic gardening, pasta, red pepper, red peter pepper, sausage, sweet things, turkey, vegetarian, tagged dinner, Food, photography, recipe, recipes on May 19, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Regular readers know I’m all about using what we grow here, in season. Fortunately, some foods stay seasonal months after you’d think possible, such as the butternut squash that I picked in early November and kept in a cool room for winter, preserving it for our use last night. For dinner we ate roasted butternut [...]
Spicy Asian Veggie, Chicken, and Coconut Milk Noodle Bowl
Posted in Asian food, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, chile, cilantro, coconut, Cooking And Baking, CSA, dinner, dinner, eggplant, farmer's market, Food, leeks, mushrooms, organic food, organic gardening, pasta, peas, recipes, red pepper, red peter pepper, rice, seafood, shrimp, snow pea, soup, tagged cooking, dinner, Food, photography, recipe, recipes on May 12, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Tonight we had huge noodle bowls for dinner, relying on fresh produce and poultry from our back yard or Conway Locally Grown. These noodle bowls are packed with veggies, spice, and cooling coconut milk (which, alas, is not local at all). Unfortunately, after I planned the dish, I discovered that my neglected fresh ginger was [...]
Pasilla Bajio: the mole pepper, plus a primer on selecting other chiles
Posted in chile, Food, frugal living, gardening, organic food, organic gardening, red pepper, red peter pepper, tagged Food, gardening, organic gardening, recipe, recipes on April 26, 2010 | 2 Comments »
We grow a dozen or more variety of chiles–hot peppers–each year. One mild chile that I’m growing this year for the second time is pasilla, also known as chile negro. Pasilla bajio has a mild but smoky flavor and can be added to fresh salsas or dried and powdered for a mole sauce. Mole is, [...]
Spicy Peanut-Sesame Noodles with broccoli and coconut-crusted chicken
Posted in appetizer, Asian food, beans, broccoli, carrots, chicken, chile, chives, cilantro, coconut, Community Supported Agriculture, Cooking And Baking, CSA, farmer's market, Food, gardening, garlic, greens, herbs, locavore, mustard, organic food, organic gardening, radish, red pepper, red peter pepper, seafood, shrimp, snow pea, vegetarian, whole grains, winter gardening, tagged cooking, dinner, family, Food, gardening, organic gardening, photography, recipe, recipes on April 11, 2010 | 15 Comments »
We went from wondering if another ice age was on its way to believing in global warming again this week. The unseasonably warm weather cried out for a cooler dinner, and gigantic chives and Asian mustard that went from salad size to mandatory cooking overnight made me think of some of our favorite pseudo-Asian meals. [...]
Red Peter Pepper: selecting seed for color, flavor, drying qualities, and the spice!
Posted in Cooking And Baking, gardening, organic food, organic gardening, red pepper, red peter pepper, tagged family, Food, gardening, nature, photography, recipes on February 22, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Today’s post on selecting seed is focused on a single plant: Red Peter peppers. Truth be told, the naughtiness in me took over the first time I ordered these, but the flavor, color, and drying quality had me coming back for more. (Wink, wink, nudge, nudge.) As just about every seed source will tell you, [...]
Snow Pea Tendrils: a new cool-season favorite
Posted in Asian food, carrots, chile, Cooking And Baking, CSA, farmer's market, Food, fusion cuisine, health, leeks, locavore, organic food, organic gardening, red peter pepper, salad, snow pea, whole grains, tagged Asian food, asparagus beans, cooking, environment, family, Food, gardening, health, recipes, snow pea tendrils, yard-long beans on January 9, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Today I picked up another order from Conway Locally Grown, a wonderful variation on CSAs. My father is visiting us, so I went crazy and ordered all sorts of things I ordinarily wouldn’t have, including an emu egg. Yes, I’ll be blogging about that later this weekend or early next week. Among the things I [...]
Summer, Meet Winter
Posted in eggplant, Food, frugal living, gardening, organic food, organic gardening, radish, red peter pepper, winter gardening, tagged Food, gardening, locavore, sustainable agriculture, winter gardening on November 28, 2009 | 5 Comments »
It’s really rare here to make it to Thanksgiving day without a half dozen hard freezes, but this year we’d only had a couple of frosts up to November 26. Hence, when I saw the outdoor temperature plummeting to 36 degrees Fahrenheit before 6:00 p.m., I was resigned to the inevitable. Thankful for our turkey [...]
