The gardening season is winding down; I’m picking the last of the red tomatoes and pickling the green ones. I’m also making batches of pesto and freezing it for the winter, see pesto recipe and how to freeze at homegardencook. When you thought I couldn’t come up with another pesto recipe, here’s another one. Not [Read more...]
Are you enjoying all your fresh veggies and basil out of the garden this summer? My husband always wants some kind of skewered meat and I have to admit it’s a lot more work to cube the meat and thread them onto the skewers, but it’s worth it. I have an awesome pesto recipe I [Read more...]
I had friends over for a 4th of July cookout and swim; it was a fun filled day with good food and great friends. I wanted to make a quick fresh mozzarella and tomato appetizer, but I didn’t have any fresh tomatoes yet, so I used oven dried tomatoes from the freezer and fresh basil. [Read more...]
I have been experimenting with Quinoa, serving it stuffed in Portobello Mushrooms (see recipe under herbs), using in place of couscous or rice and thought I would try it as a cold salad. I was wondering if it would change texture like cold rice, getting hard and a bit crunchy, but the quinoa held up [Read more...]
Do you have those days where you just don’t know what to make? Well, I do. Yes, I love to talk about food, cook food, eat food and grow food but I still have those moments. Maybe it’s the winter blahs or I’m just drawing a blank. It was a bunco night and Ali was [Read more...]
We love to make grilled pizza in the summer with fresh produce from the garden. I simply had to make our grilled tomato pizza one more time, the last one until next summer. It’s simple to make, use your favorite pizza dough (whether you make it or purchase it); I make dough in the bread [Read more...]
The summer gardens are winding down, I guess they should be it is the first day of fall. This time of year I pick a few tomatoes, a handful of green beans, maybe a zucchini or summer squash, a little of this and a little of that. I created this “end of summer” soup [Read more...]
I hosted Bunco this month and the theme was salads. We had a great feast from egg salad sammies, BLT panzanella salad, taco salad and a beautiful fruit salad just to name a few. They were all delicious; we have wonderful cooks in our Bunco group. I made a quick salad of sliced tomatoes with [Read more...]
My niece, Madison, asked me the other day “What is Pesto?” What do you do with it? I explained the ingredients to her and how many things you can make with it. Throughout the day I kept telling her different things to do with pesto, I could go on forever. She said, “Oh, you [Read more...]
Wow the basil is growing like crazy! It’s time to make pesto. Pesto is a great way to use a lot of basil leaves and it also freezes wonderfully. I have found that the basil leaves do not freeze very well; they turn brown and lose their flavor. But Pesto on the other hand is [Read more...]