Spicy Summer Tomato Jam - not too sweet, but loaded with rich flavor. Great slathered on a biscuit or a grilled cheese sandwich. I'm not ready for summer to be over! Once fall arrives, our wonderful homegrown tomatoes will slowly sneak away, and we'll be left with bland hot house tomatoes from the grocery. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE fall; the colors, the crisp air, pumpkins, . . . Continue Reading
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Marinated Tomato & Tortellini Salad (garden-to-table)
Marinated Tomato & Tortellini Salad with cucumbers, onion, olives, avocado, cheese and fresh garden herbs. Don't forget the crusty bread to soak up all the juices in this tortellini salad! It's that time of year when tomatoes are incredibly beautiful, red, ripe and flavorful and all we can think about is having tomatoes at every meal. It took a long time for our . . . Continue Reading
Easy Tomato Confit (Garden-to-Table)
Easy Tomato Confit ~ sweet summer tomatoes are slow cooked in the oven with olive oil, garlic, crushed red pepper and a handful of fresh thyme. If you find yourself with a bucket of cherry, grape, heirloom or any other small sweet tomatoes in abundance, this is a terrific way to preserve the fruit for later use. Confit, often associated with duck, means to preserve in fat or oil. Here . . . Continue Reading
Easy Nectarine Blueberry Freezer Jam
Easy Nectarine Blueberry Freezer Jam ~ get out the easy button because this delicious no-cook jam is as simple as it gets with unpeeled, diced nectarines and blueberries. I held a pie class at the house last weekend with my daughter Allie and her next door neighbor Ashley. They both wanted to make our Nectarine Blueberry Pie recipe posted here a few weeks ago. Allie made a lattice . . . Continue Reading
Roasted Tomato Basil Soup
A popular restaurant favorite - Roasted Tomato Basil Soup Back in the day when I worked as an office manager, a couple of my co-workers talked about a local restaurant and the wonderful tomato basil soup they served on occasion. While I never tried that recipe, I did get 'tomato soup on the brain' and set out to make our own at home. I wanted our tomato basil soup to be . . . Continue Reading
4th of July Recipes for your Celebration!
We've rounded up some of our best picnic, potluck, BBQ and 4th of July Recipes just in time for your summer Celebration! Whether you've invited the entire neighbor to your house, or heading across town for a nice quiet backyard family BBQ, we have some terrific 4th of July recipes to fit your menu! _____________________________________ Get the party started with a few easy . . . Continue Reading
Mom’s Skillet Corn
Mom's Skillet Corn - Also known as creamed corn or fried corn. This easy summer side is made with sweet, fresh ears of corn cut from the cob and combined with butter, milk, and a little cornstarch for thickening. My mom was a good cook, but probably a better baker. She made normal, everyday dishes that were not exceptionally fancy, but always good. She cooked a lot of vegetables, . . . Continue Reading
Fresh Sweet Summer Corn and Corn Bread
Almost every single basic thing I know about cooking I learned from my mom. Her lessons have stuck with me and sometimes I can actually hear her saying "there's no need to beat that to death" or "keep stirring, it's not done." While mom used sugar in her confections, she didn't sugar coat the instructions. This is what you do, period, end of story. Once I had a kitchen of my own I . . . Continue Reading