Autumn is apple season! Here are 10 simple apple recipes rounded up from some of my favorite bloggers, as well as my favorite savory dish incorporating apples, to help you enjoy this versatile and delicious fruit! Are you sick of apples yet? I would be lying to you if I said that I don’t feel a…
Canning & Preserving
Making Homemade Apple Scrap Vinegar
Apple scrap vinegar is the perfect way to use up all the “trash” from your apple harvest, and makes a healthful and versatile vinegar in the bargain! We’re getting closer and closer to fall. The days are shorter, the yearly bird migrations have begun, and the apples are starting to ripen. Time for apple…
How to Keep Cucumbers Fresh and Firm
Soft, shriveled cucumbers don’t make for good eating; learn how to store them to keep cucumbers fresh and delicious Crisp, crunchy cucumbers, plucked straight from the vine, are one of the quintessential foods of summer. Topped with a little salt; dipped into a bowl full of hummus or aioli; sliced into sandwiches or salads…
The Best Basil and Garden Pesto
A good, homemade pesto is the perfect building block for all the best summer meals There is nothing I like better than a perfect pesto. I feel a little bit like I’m going back to square one by posting a pesto recipe, which you can literally find all over the internet, but I’m trying…
Delectable Pickled Garlic
Homemade garlic powder is good. It’s amazing even, especially when compared with conventional store-bought garlic powder. I just made it the other day, but I’ve already used it to make garlic bread, to flavor mashed potatoes, and in my homegrown spaghetti sauce. But do you know what’s even better than garlic powder? Like, a bajillion…