My wife and I have both loved gardening for a long time. As kids both of our families had huge gardens, and our parents preserved much of their own food. When we got married and moved into a small basement apartment in Atlanta one of the first things we did was ask our landlady upstairs […]
Every September we stockpile salsa. We can all of it with the goal of having enough jars for an average of 5-6 per month until we can make fresh salsa again. Thus we canned just over 50 jars. Fresh salsa is always the preferred option, assuming it’s made with delicious local ingredients. Based on that […]
I’ve been trying to wrap my head around California. We returned a couple weeks ago from ten days visiting the state that is more populous than the country we live in. It has been hard to decide what to write about the experience. Mostly if I try to sum it up I think what I […]
This meal plan is a bit out of our ordinary pattern and it’s mainly because we’re not at home. We’ve been at my parent’s house—aka my childhood home—for the last two weeks, and will be here the rest of this week before we hit the road for Oregon and California. More on that later, but […]
Wow, has it really been two months since I posted?? Okay, so actually I’m not at all in shock about this because I was well aware of how long it had been. Soooooooo. Where was I? Remember that post a while back about finding the time? Well when I added a few extra commitments (like taking […]
Where We Began is not Really Where We Began The classic (North) American meal: a delicious, mouth-watering plate with a big piece of meat, preferably cooked on the grill, a potato or hunk of bread or ear of corn, and some small side of vegetables, like carrots or something else that most people like. Photo […]
Fall is here. Summer is over. But can we eat well once summer is gone? Yes, that is a resounding yes! And a great way to keep eating well once the harvest has ended is by preserving the harvest now. The last sweet corn of the season will soon be harvested, but it can be […]
Coffee is one food item that I really love and enjoy in spite of the fact that it is not, and never will be local. I recently received a bag of coffee sent by Parachute Coffee to review and I have to say that I was pretty impressed with it. I tend to shy away […]
(This post has been updated a few times since 2014, including the past seceral summers with info about prices found at St. Jacob’s Market in Ontario). Our final batch of salsa that we canned for the year, Chunky Peach Salsa, was definitely our best. And maybe that is because after canning 3 other batches we learned a […]
Alright, a few days ago I got a bit romantic about our love of preserving. Now, however, we’re in crunch mode so I’m feeling slightly less amorous about the whole thing. For one thing we have a huge bag of tomatoes on the floor, another full of peppers, and peaches are covering our hutch. Luckily eventually […]