{100th} Post Milestone…Part One

I can’t believe we’ve made it to 100+ posts. In March, I started this blog as an off-shoot of our monthly meetings, purely a way to communicate with each other, in between meetings. My thought was “keep the energy and passion going, sharing recipes, local food events and food musings. No dead air.” We are…

{FOOD PRESERVATION} freezing corn

As the days of fresh sweet corn come to a close, I wanted to make sure I got this post published. My in-laws grew super sweet corn (not sure how I feel about GM corn, but more on that at another time). I was able to take home and freeze 60 ears. It is such…

Tomatos- No, not sauce…….

SANDWICH’S, what to do with the ones that didn’t make the cut, for the sauce.  I love all things tomatoes, but I am the WORST tomato grower ever, I mean WORST.  This year we planted three different varieties The sauce/ eating tomato I can’t remember the name of,  Sun Gold ( Orange Cherry) and Golden…

I LOVE Pasta!

As stated in the title I LOVE me some PASTA, I don’t care the topping- I’ll pretty much eat anything. I started to get sick of grilled Zucchini after about the tenth or so bag of zucchini brought to us by my WONDERFUL in-laws.  I couldn’t stand to see any go to waste, so night after…

Stacked Burrito Pie

Back when I only cooked using a recipe, I used to go to the library  to search through cooking magazine’s (I like magazine’s best because they always have picture’s- this helps me).  I would usually come home with a few good ideas- but not to many things were kid friendly.  So then ding, ding, ding…

Chard Recipe

The recipe calls for swiss chard but any greens will do. I really loved this and plan to make it again. Bright Lights Chard Gratin (From Local Flavors: Cooking and Eating from America’s Farmers’ Markets by Deborah Madison) 2 lbs chard, including half of the stems 4 T. unsalted butter 1 onion, finely chopped seat…