It’s been a very long time since I pulled out my yogurt maker. In fact, I seem to recall not to long ago wondering if I should pass it on to someone who might actually use it. I didn’t, and this week, as I eyed a surplus of milk, I […]
Month: October 2012
Green Tomato Pickles
Cold arrived early this year in the Tummy Treasure gardens. Though our first REAL cold day seems to be today, the ripening in the garden seemed to all but come to a halt at the end of September. Where I was walking out to the garden and picking a bucketful […]
Time To Put The Canner Away?
It could be. Though, I said that at the beginning of October, and since then I’ve put up nearly 25 quarts of tomatillos, tomatoes and assorted green tomato pickles. So who knows what a few more days will bring. I AM still on the prowl for some good deals on […]
An Easy, No-Frills Carrot Cake
Andy had a birthday yesterday. 🙂 I had been planning on making him his birthday pie (blueberry this year) but thought it really wouldn’t be a birthday without cake. And then I thought about how much he really likes Bill’s Big Carrot Cake, and that led to thoughts of how […]
Chickpea Stew: And Even The Kids Ate It
I warned the kids a few weeks ago that my goal this winter was to get them to like beans. Not the green beans that they eat with abandon fresh from the garden- but dried beans. I don’t exactly remember what we were eating that night- burrito bowls I think, […]