Freezing tomatoes Here’s another easy one you won’t believe. I take plum, roma and small tomatoes, rinse them and place in a freezer bag and freeze. So many cooks blanch, stem and seed the tomatoes. It really isn’t necessary. Really. When it’s time to use the tomatoes, thaw in the fridge, on the [Read more...]
Now this is really hard. Wash okra, trim off stem end, slice into desired size and place in a freezer bag. Freeze until needed. Yup, that’s all there is to it! No blanching needed. I did not plant a lot of okra, so I slice and add to my freezer bag as I harvest [Read more...]
This salad is bright, colorful and full of flavor. It is a great side dish with a dinner or a sandwich. The juice it creates is yummy and is wonderful sopped up with some bread. It’s O.K. to tip you dish and slurp up the juices. I won’t tell. We had friends over for this [Read more...]
My bush beans are still producing a good harvest. I grew (green) “Romano” and “Dragon” beans this year with the Romano producing first. The Romano bushes are getting flowers again and are starting to produce a second harvest while the Dragon beans have continued to produce all summer. You can see in the picture below [Read more...]
My niece, Madison, asked me the other day “What is Pesto?” What do you do with it? I explained the ingredients to her and how many things you can make with it. Throughout the day I kept telling her different things to do with pesto, I could go on forever. She said, “Oh, you [Read more...]
Wow the basil is growing like crazy! It’s time to make pesto. Pesto is a great way to use a lot of basil leaves and it also freezes wonderfully. I have found that the basil leaves do not freeze very well; they turn brown and lose their flavor. But Pesto on the other hand is [Read more...]
I have had only one zucchini and one yellow summer squash out of the garden so far this year. I think it’s going to be the only one; I should have taken a picture. It was a perfect little yellow squash. The following recipe does not have any amounts listed, so it’s up to you. [Read more...]
Tomatoes are slowly starting to ripen, well, what the raccoons and the tomato worms didn’t eat! I did get to sample a few cherry tomatoes before the raccoons got them and they had good tomato flavor so I hope to get some more before this season ends. I planted a new variety, Red Siberian that [Read more...]
What’s better than eating a fresh picked cucumber from the garden? So crisp, fresh and delicious. I have been eating one with my lunch every day, skin and all! The skin on it is thin and delicate, not thick and waxy like the store version. With the additional fiber and vitamins it’s a win win situation. My [Read more...]
Last weekend we had a big family get together, everyone was bringing a dish and I volunteered a garden vegetable. My neighbor just gave me a bunch of zucchini, perfect to feed a crowd. My Uncle helped me grill a big batch early in the day so I just heated them up for dinner and it freed up [Read more...]