Seasonal Produce
Plum Sauce
This plum sauce is great atop Chocolate Ice Cream, on our favorite breakfast porridge, Genius Breakfast Cereal, or stirred into a bowl of kefir. It is not too sweet and really tasty!
Making Tomato Sauce
Following the directions in the Ball Blue Book, I made tomato sauce yesterday with all the organic tomatoes we were given. I ended up with 11 quarts. Since 45 pounds makes about 7 quarts, I figure I was working with 70 pounds of tomatoes. Whew! I am game for more, but now that I’ve spent [...]
Wonderful Tomatoes
Tomatoes! My favorite fruit. A friend has access to the abundance of extra organic tomatoes from a local farm. She gave us 3 huge boxes of them yesterday.
That gives me some work to do today, making tomato sauce. I’ve never done it before.
I’d love to get more of these tomatoes. She said they’ll have extras [...]
Chunky Spiced Pear Jam
I had a friend over on Sunday afternoon. She was waiting for her husband to finish helping my husband. (They worked really hard.) She had a box full of very ripe pears. So we made jam. She was remembering some pear jam a friend had given her once and that’s what we tried to recreate. [...]
Blackberry Jam — Agave Sweetened
Finally, yesterday was the day to finish the blackberry jam, thanks to bringing home some lemons on the way home from church. The 12 pounds of berries made about 12 pints of jam, or 4 1/2 batches, following the basic recipe included in the box of Pomona’s Pectin. Our jam is not on the sweet [...]
Miner’s Lettuce
We are just tickled to have eaten Miner’s Lettuce tonight for dinner. It grows wild all over our property and beyond. One of the most fascinating things about it is how this western “weed” got its name.
“Miners lettuce is named after the California gold rush miners who ate it to get their vitamin C to [...]
Apple Salad
I ended up making this for the church dinner last Friday night. Then I had to make more on Saturday since it was so good!
Apple Salad
6 to 8 apples, cleaned and with the peel left on (I used Pink Lady apples)
1/4 cup lemon juice
purified water
1/4 cup agave syrup (or honey), or to taste
1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
1/4 [...]
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