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Slow Roasted Tomatoes
Growing up in a large, Italian family, big family meals were routine. For Italians, food is not just a meal. Family meals were frequent and often centered around food and extended family. My grandparents where straight from Italy and moved to the USA when they were young. My dad was one of 5 boys so there was always big stomachs to fill. Everything was home made and tomatoes seemed to be served in some form everyday. My Aunt Angie made homemade bread daily and as you can imagine it did not last very long. My dad made homemade tomato everything including pizza sauce, spaghetti sauce, roasted tomatoes, and all…
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Zucchini Bread
The Ever-Prolific Zucchini We learned a lesson from zucchini over the years. We always grew 3-4 plants each year and you probably can guess the rest of the story. We ate zucchini. We cooked with zucchini. We froze zucchini. We gave away zucchini. We now grow 2 plants and that seems to plenty to fit our needs and we do not feel as if we are being wasteful. We like baked goods with zucchini the most. Zucchini bread and other baked items are very easy to make. Grating the zucchini is a snap if you have a food processor with a grating feature. (It really saves the knuckles.) A…
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How To Make Sourdough Bread
I love getting lost in my kitchen on days when it is too hot to be in the garden. How many of you can relate? Living in Texas during the dog days of summer, some days are too hot to get out in the garden. It can get to 90-95 degrees by noon. Those days I make sure the garden is watered, harvest what is needed in the morning and move to the kitchen. Today is was one of those days. My sourdough starter was in need of a feed so I decided to make fresh sourdough bread. It requires minimal work once you get your starter going however, it…
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How Hot Are Your Peppers?
Peppers are a favorite in most gardens behind tomatoes and herbs. They are often grown in container gardens and they do well. Peppers are a warm season favorite however, they require higher temperatures, grow more slowly and are smaller in size compared to a tomato plant. They require full sun and they need to spaced 12-18 inches apart. Peppers are a thirsty plant and need plenty of water. The soil must drain well so the roots do not get saturated which can water logs the roots. A little history about the spiciness/heat of pepper began in the 1900’s. The Scoville scale of heat is a measurement of the spiciness/heat of…
Home Grown is Best
