{how you do it} NOW is the Time to Plan Your Garden

Editor’s Note: Please enjoy Dianna’s third installment of her monthly {How You Do It} series. Don’t miss this extremely informative post on planning a ‘tomato sauce’ garden through the eyes of the “Community Share Cropping” system Dianna and her husband, Michael, created with their network of friends. Oh, and she shares a terrific tomato sauce…

Curing Kitchen Boredom with Shrimp!

Purchasing the same foods each week can leave me feeling incredibly bored.  My usual, figure-it-out-as-you-go cooking method is fun, but can get tiresome because if you’re always starting with the same ingredients, it’s challenging to end up with a different result.  Even with the lovely variety of farmers market additions, the repetition of the same…

{Back to School} I Heart the Crockpot!

I  LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the Crockpot! The crockpot pictured here is from Williams- Sonoma.  A beauty isn’t it?! Schools in session! This year ALL three kiddos are at the same school on the same schedule for the very FIRST time.  I have done my duty for the past 8 ½ years and am adapting well to…

Quick Tomato Sauce

We’ve been getting a decent pile of tomatoes in our weekly CSA share, and I still can’t believe it took me this long to make the most basic tomato recipe: homemade sauce.  I used to do a sauce that was much more complicated (blanch the tomatoes, peel, simmer forever, yadda yadda), but I threw this…

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…