Recipes

  • Apples on a wonderful late winter rainy day

    This is what I do when it rains; cook, of course!  I converted the remaining half bushel of November 2010’s pie apples left in our spring house into pie slices in bags in the freezer. We had a mixture of…

  • Ok, Kids, It’s Time to Roast Garlic!

    Of course the house smells a bit but in one fell swoop you can have the entire winter’s worth of roasted garlic in your fridge with just one afternoon of work. I buy several sleeves of fall harvest garlic (it’s…

  • Munch, Dig, Laugh: 2nd Wednesday’s with Leni

    The final gathering of my 2nd Wednesday monthly open house will be in October on the 13th and I have decided to give it a theme – see the title above. : )  All summer I have been delighted to…

  • Making your own Pomegranate Juice!

    Now is the time to plan for the fall harvest of pomegranates.  There comes a time each fall when the new harvest might sell for as little as $1 apiece for big juicy fruit.  Once the sweet tart red seeds…

  • Leni’s Summer Tomato Salad

    The first big tomatoes are ripening on the vine; and we did eat three tiny cherry tomatoes yesterday . . . . . .  The cucumbers won’t be fruiting for weeks but I am dreaming of my favorite fresh summer…