My husband and I love blueberry season! Blueberry pancakes, fresh blueberries on your cereal or blueberries topped with yogurt, it’s all delicious. With the Northeast in mind, where blueberries are abundant and hazelnuts are very popular, I came up with this salad using fresh lettuces out of the garden. The honey in the dressing gives [Read more...]
Peaches, I just love fresh peaches! My neighbor, Bob, went to his brother-in-laws last week and came home with a wheel barrel load of fresh peaches. He gave a box of them to me, so thanks for the peaches Bob! I assumed this late in the season peaches would be done, so this was a [Read more...]
Who doesn’t think of strawberries in June? What’s growing right now and goes great with strawberries? Rhubarb! I have strawberries growing on one side of my greenhouse and rhubarb growing on the other. They come together in the kitchen often. I have this great strawberry sherbet recipe that is made with sour cream, it is [Read more...]
This Father’s Day I had my Father and my Godfather, my Uncle Wayne was visiting from Texas, over for what I thought was going to be a Father’s Day Perch dinner. The Lake Erie fish is cleaned, put in freezer bags, covered with water and then frozen. The bag wasn’t marked, surprise it was Lake [Read more...]
Farmer John sent back some red raspberries, thanks my favorite! Fresh organic raspberries are very perishable so I am freezing most of them right away. I left a pint out for cereal and yogurt. I love raspberries sweetened with just a bit of sugar to juice them up and spoon them over fresh tapioca pudding. Raspberry is [Read more...]
My neighbor, Howard, grows black raspberries and he told me last week he had picked enough and I can pick the rest. I sure do have some GREAT neighbors! I have been battling the thorns and picking a quart every other day. We have been putting them on cereal, I threw them in buckwheat pancakes [Read more...]
Strawberries, strawberries, strawberries… Most people ask what we did do get such a great yield. One word, “neglect”. A neighbor gave me a couple of plants 5-7 years ago. I stuck them in a corner of the garden; they did nothing, just sat there looking the same every year. Then 2 years ago my husband [Read more...]
This morning a baby bird fluttered to the front porch and brushed the screen in the door. It was sitting on the welcome mat looking at me. I got down on my knees and talked to him through the screen. He listened intently, cocking his head from side to side. I went to get my [Read more...]
My strawberries are GREAT this year! This is my first year I actually have enough to use, last year the chipmunks ate them all. Thanks to the cat, Shadow, that is no longer a problem. This morning I made a quick and easy strawberry dish, I forgot how delicious it is. You simply have to try [Read more...]
The other night we had some friends over to celebrate my husband’s birthday. He loves lasagna, which is perfect for a crowd, and wanted a berry cobbler for dessert. I wanted to make a spring salad, something different. My friend, John, has an organic farm in Kentucky, grows wonderful produce and sent back a variety [Read more...]