February 15th, 2010 I shoulda known goats would pick something like…
Carrots for the February Can Jam ingredient.
I promised BarBBQ Bill that I would not stray (too far) from our personal canning resolution of “If we won’t eat it, we’re not going to waste the ingredients or the time to put it up.”
The majority of carrot recipes I found [...]
January 30th, 2010 We received a lovely surprise the other day.
A huge box of fresh pecans in the shell from our wonderful friends in Texas.
Trying to figure out how we could use them up before they went bad, we discovered that pecans freeze very well in the shell – up to four years!
These are ready for the freezer [...]
December 6th, 2009 BarBBQ Bill decided he wanted rye bread. He was making borscht (beet soup) and a fresh loaf of rye bread to go with it just seemed the right thing to do.
He didn’t want just any old rye bread. He wanted sourdough rye.
I’m gonna take a whack at it (even though I have no clue how [...]
December 4th, 2009 A couple of weeks ago, I made a batch of cranberry chutney, which we thoroughly enjoyed with our Thanksgiving turkey. The other night, BarBBQ Bill was eating some on his grilled pork chop and got “That Look” in his eye. “Hey, Hon, I really like this, but could you make some that’s not so “desserty”?
Translation [...]
November 7th, 2009 My rosemary plant in the herb garden did not survive last winter (I try every year, but mine never make it), so this spring I went to buy a replacement. We only have two local nurseries that sell plants, and no one had any rosemary. It can be difficult to start from seed and would [...]
