Home canning to preserve food in jars can be intimidating. So today it’s refrigerator pickles to the rescue! It’s a quick and easy alternative when you want some instant gratification in the form of crispy and crunchy and dilly and green. Let’s … [Read more...]
How To Blanch Green Beans | How-To Tuesday!
Someone at work the other day asked me what the cooking term blanching is so I thought it might make a good start to How-To Tuesdays here on the ‘ol blog. Blanching is a simple cooking technique that helps to preserve the vibrant color and crisp … [Read more...]
How Does Your Garden Grow? | August, 2014
Do you remember the acronym Roy G. Biv from when you were a kid? It stands for red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet and always helped me remember the order of the colors of the rainbow. I’m not sure why I needed to name those … [Read more...]