It's summer. I don't recall a time when temperatures were 104 degrees in June, when fishing was halted for the season, campfires so cautionary, the creek's water feels like August. Tomatoes reaching to hold garlic's twisted …
So enough of you have asked that here I am doing a wee canning tutorial. And wow, it took a few weeks get it up...canning is a lot of work but then documenting the process …
:: We made really great pizza inspired by Smitten Kitchen (really, what isn't inspiring about her kitchen zsa zsa zsu?) but, as with most recipes I 'follow' it evolved and then was not much like …
So I have been paying more attention to the other blog. In truth, right now, writing about my cooking-crafty-runningness is trumped by a newly walking nearly-one-year-old. But the other stuff is still happening (quilt!) and …
When I make the decision to not do a step in an already-established process, it usually gets me in trouble. Like not pressing my hems before sewing or estimating on 1/4 teaspoon of baking powder …
I prefer the quiet, lazy Tuesday evening farmer's market to Saturday morning. The is partially true due to my man despising the market all together not because of what one can purchase and support but …
My friend Connie gave me two generous bags of plums. Last year was the first year I made plum butter and it was complete perfection. I didn't even have to add sugar because it was …
Get your mind out of the gutter. I am talking about tomatoes. I picked them all last Sunday, the day after the first frost. They were just barely OK.The texture was all funk but the …
My friends, Bobbie and Shirley from down the Bitterroot, gave me bags of perfect, delectable Macintosh apples. Turns out this year was a great apple year.Today I made pureed apples for bug.I decided it was …
I made raspberry jam this morning with the berries from last weekend's harvest. I am pretty new to canning and I always feel like a mad woman when I drag out my jars and pots …
I canned plum butter last fall and have found amazing uses for it. To make plum butter, I halved plums and boiled for a long time until the mixture was all pulpy and the …
