Preserves and jarred foods.
I love all things pumpkin, and every year I make enough pumpkin butter to keep me happy for the season. I’d forgotten just how easy this is. I can’t believe people bother to pay some $12 for a 13oz a jar for it. Really? That’s crazy,…let me show you just how crazy that is ! […] Read more…
Summer means tomatoes. Here, in FL we grow tomatoes – beautiful Ruskin reds that are fantastic. Problem is, you can’t buy them in a grocery store. Yes, that’s right. We have, available for purchase, pre-packaged Tennessee, or Canadian, or Mexican tomatoes. Really? Or the ones that look good, but have whitish flesh that tastes slightly […] Read more…
BadZoot’s back in the kitchen, and up to no good – It’s summer and it’s time for cherries. I love my fruits and veggies and these stone fruits make my all time top 10 ! It’s actually not a good thing that the wholesale houses sell them in those big containers – I will eat […] Read more…
Now that all the peaches are off the tree, I’ll soon run out of them. And I’ll have to find something else to post recipes about! But before that ends, I’ve got one more. You know I like to put food in jars (I also like that blog too!) and these little gems need to be […] Read more…
Once again my magazines have gotten me into trouble – well, maybe not trouble…, in one of my old Food & Wine issues (Jan’14), I stumbled over an interesting ingredient. I can’t resist a recipe labeled ‘Creamed Spinach transformed by Magic Salt’. OK, you got me – magic salt !? This is something that, after […] Read more…
Years ago I fell in love with a drink. Not just any drink, the ubiquitous ‘Cherry-Limeade’ at Sonic. I knew from the first sip, I was done for! I could go there get a treat for my son and my own liquid candy bar with a straw. Only once did I venture into the realm […] Read more…
A while back I picked blueberries – a lot of blueberries ! Most of them got frozen for use in smoothies, jams and for my morning cereal. Some I’d been eating from the fridge and decided to find another use. When I was a little girl, my Grandmother would pull out a special bottle of […] Read more…
For years I’ve been buying canned chiles because I use them in nearly everything TexMex that I cook. Having a spouse from AZ means I use a ton of them. Those tiny cans aren’t cheap. I mean, they’ve doubled in price over the years and the stores now don’t blink at $1.69 for one. Yes, […] Read more…
Memorial Day is on it’s way! It’s going to be a long, hot summer. In fact, already, yesterday it was HOT! (but not today) A while back I posted this recipe on my Aunt’s Blog ‘A Slice of Life in Perfect‘, after Labor Day, since we’ve got another picnic holiday coming up it came to mind. […] Read more…
When life gives you strawberries,… You can’t make ‘lemonade’, and you can’t just let them rot! Last week I posted to my Facebook a photo of a wedding cake that I’d helped my Mom deliver one gorgeous Saturday afternoon. It was a really simple cake. Very rustic buttercream icing slathered over moist white cake, but […] Read more…