Homemade Harvest

I have way too many jalapeno and aji rico peppers (a slightly milder, light green pepper) than what I know what to do with. I've made...

With the summer gardening season coming to an end, I found myself in a sea of unorganized seed packets that I needed to deal with. I'm...

Summer is coming to an end (but with this heat wave, it definitely doesn't feel like it) and I wanted to do something different with the...

When I made dill pickles for the first time last year, I thought they were good initially, but over time I decided the vinegar was too...

This is definitely my new dinner obsession, there's a lot of ingredients here but everything is done in one pan (okay, 2 if you count the...

Wow, I've been neglecting this site lately! Between work picking up and starting to plan for a fall garden, I've been very busy. But I'm...

My last post about the garden was a rather sad one, but thankfully the hail damage happened early enough in the season that I could...

Now that it's getting warmer outside, I started to make cold brew coffee, which is different than iced coffee. Iced coffee is made by...

Peanut butter is easily one of my favorite dessert flavors and I have made fudge in the past with chocolate, but not with peanut butter....

While it's still a bit early to harvest potatoes from my grandparents' garden, Gram would dig up some of the earliest and smallest...

I used to hate beets growing up, and I think it has to do with only ever having pickled beets from a can. Roasting beets enhances their...

This post was originally just going to be a brief description of how the garden is going with some pictures, etc. I'll still post some...

This is one of those meals that you can serve for either breakfast or a light lunch with very minimal cleanup as this is done in a cast...

Radishes are one of the easiest vegetables to grow, especially for a new gardener. Over the course of a week or so, I've been harvesting...

Keeping with my sourdough obsession, I had to try to make blueberry muffins. There's a lot of ingredients here but not too many steps,...

For years on Sundays, mom would bake some variation (or 2) of this strata and bring it to church before the morning service. We were...

Wooden utensils and cutting boards are so versatile and can last a long time if you care for them properly. Pap made all the cutting...

I haven't written about my garden in a while because I've been so busy working on it! I think I actually spent more time preparing the...

This is definitely a childhood favorite, and even though mom hasn't made these in years, I still remember eating them as soon as she cut...

This has probably become my new favorite way to roast chicken. As you can see, this chicken is quite large inside (it is about 6 pounds!)...