Bringing "back in the day" back to today
Part of our process of cooking things from scratch involves growing vegetables in the garden. Last summer we had an excellent tomato harvest. We canned a lot of the tomatoes (not enough as we used up the last jar a couple weeks ago) and had some left that we wanted to do something with. Kelly …
When you are cooking food from scratch it becomes essential to plan and prepare for meals that require extra time for marinating to achieve optimum flavor. This becomes especially crucial when you are trying to prepare a meal after work and before practice or games or whatever takes up your time during the evening. I …
Fall is officially here. Fall is my favorite season, we still have beautifully sunny days without the heat and humidity that comes with summer. The leaves change and create a portrait of color that shows nature’s true beauty. Fall is also the beginning of all the great family holidays. Just think of all of the …
This may have been the most terrifying canning process to date. Only the truly daring handle massive amounts of hot peppers during the peak of allergy season. As I prepared to embark on this journey, I was pretty convinced that I would land in an emergency room with chemical burns in both eyes because …