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Homemade salsa made with a whole lot of goodness from your garden is the BEST. Am I right? I’ve had a lot of requests for the salsa recipe that Bill and I make. We’ve been perfecting it over the past couple of summers and think we’ve finally nailed it! Use a food processor to shorten the amount of preparation time […]
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All of a sudden, I’m starting to experience a bit of garden overwhelm. There are so many things to harvest and preserve for yummy fall and winter eating. Since there are a lot of new gardeners this year and increased interest in preserving the harvest, I thought that would be a perfect topic for today’s garden column and video. You […]
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As many of you know, I’m growing fava beans this year. This marks the second time I’ve grown them, although the last time was quite a few years ago. I’ve been pointing them out in my vegetable garden tour videos but thought you’d like to see how to process them in order to use the beans in cooking. Fava bean […]
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Since Thanksgiving is just a week away, I have a treat for you! I shot a video on how to make a pumpkin pie with your very own homegrown pumpkins. And it’s OK if you didn’t grow your own because there’s always next year, you know. In the meantime, you can find pie pumpkins at the grocery store. I usually […]
Read moreDuring the fall and winter, I probably won’t be shooting a video every single week. However, I did want to create one on preserving the harvest from the garden. I get a lot of questions about this topic! In this one, I cover the different methods we use for specific vegetables and fruits. That way, we can enjoy them throughout […]
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I’ve been joking this summer about how my husband has been trying to take over our vegetable garden. He grew a ton of peppers in our hoop house, which we’re using in tomato sauce and salsa. Recently, Bill decided to roast peppers, which I think is a great way to preserve them. This is his first season for roasting them. […]
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If you are looking at this photo and thinking it’s a bunch of egg yolks, let me quickly clarify that’s not the case at all. What you’re seeing is a twist on my favorite sandwich to make during tomato season. Ordinarily, I make these sandwiches with larger slicing tomatoes but since we have a lot of Sungold tomatoes right now, […]
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Are you as crazy about succulents as I am? I love all of the amazing leaf types and colors, the different sizes and how easy they are to grow. That’s the topic of this week’s column. Here is a link to it in today’s edition of The Spokesman-Review: Versatile succulents gaining in popularity. (or you can read my column lower […]
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I love growing, storing, and cooking with onions. They can be used in so many different types of dishes. The timing on harvesting onions can seem a little tricky. My goal is to share a bit of information with you. And I also wanted to point out something that can impact how long they’ll keep in storage. The thing I […]
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I recently shot a video on July garden tasks. In it, I mentioned how I’d harvested most of my broccoli heads for freezing purposes. Blanching vegetables first is a way of preserving the harvest and applies to peas, beans, broccoli, and other veggies. According to the National Center for Home Food Preservation, you blanch vegetables prior to freezing for several […]
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