This is why I pick and freeze berries – and other fruit – in the summer when they are at peak flavor. And for cobbler and clafoutis too.Yeah… I suppose nobody needs a recipe for smoothie? Indulge me a little. It’s a locavore post after all, one that’ll provide plenty of vitamins and taste [...]
Read More..>>It’s been aging in the dark closet under the stair since July. This morning, finally, it was time for bottling. You do remember the peach liqueur we made, right? YOU did make it, right?, when the peaches were full of flavor and fragrance last summer?
Thanks to the magic of photo editing software I “transformed” one [...]
Not food nor gardening, but hey, sometimes a girl needs a break…
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Comments(0) For those who don’t know, “coq” means “rooster” in French. Therefore, “Coq au Vin” means “Rooster cooked in wine”. The dish is a staple of French provincial cooking, a dish originally made by using extra roosters culled from the chicken yard or an old chicken (aka a stewing chicken), the local red wine and [...]
Read More..>>Melted plastic tray in the oven. Saved by baking soda!
This is why you should NEVER - EVER - store plastic in your oven. Metal or heat-proof glass containers, yes, but plastic? Repeat after me: Do not store anything plastic in the oven. Don’t. You think you’ll remember, but one time - and it only [...]
Read More..>> Comments(5) My apologies to all of you who posted comments and whose comments have disappeared. It was not my doing: I love your comments!
It’s apparently an issue that other Wordpress bloggers have been having. Not being a techie person, I don’t understand how it happened. But it did: poof! they disappeared altogether , even from [...]
Comments(0) I know. It’s not in season. But I am dreaming of it, because of a post from Elise on Simply Recipes. Chayote shoot is a taste of my childhood. Around the holidays, don’t we reminisce about good memories?
At some point I’ll post more info on the chayote, of which the young shots & leaves, the [...]
The lettuce beds are looking lush and fluff – if you lift the agricultural fabric swaddled over them, that is - providing huge bowls of greens, but, with the temperature regularly dropping below freezing (at night only for now, thankfully), I am hungering for soup.
(Alas, since no picture of tonight’s soup was taken, you must [...]
