Bringing "back in the day" back to today
Between the tomatoes that we grew in the garden and the ones that we bought from a local farm for canning, we ended up with quite a few jars of crushed, pureed and whole tomatoes. Since we were going to be home all day I decided to make a spaghetti sauce, turkey meatballs and homemade …
After a wonderful, albeit rainy at times, summer it was time to start thinking about getting back to the real world. Kids back in school and all of the after-school and sports activities that come with were upon us. With that we wanted to have one last full-on BBQ before all of that craziness started. …
Since we started our journey to make as much as we can at home and from scratch we have made quite a few different kinds of bread. We have neglected one of my favorite types of bread: the baguette. I had looked up some recipes early on, but they took days and I was …
Summer is in full swing and our garden is rewarding us for the work that we have put in so far. Part of our reward is rows of beautiful, fresh lettuce. We planted two different types of lettuce and ended up having some the lettuce that we neglected last year go to seed and grow …
One of the vegetables that we were most looking forward to from the garden is kale. We became quite fond of it when we were receiving it from our CSA last summer so we planted quite a bit of it. This time of year is prime time for kale and our garden is no exception. …
Lately I have been enjoying yogurt with granola for breakfast pretty much every day. My granola of choice has been Bear Naked Vanilla Almond Crunch. It seems good enough, has no high fructose corn syrup or anything like that, but the ingredients list seems a bit longer than I would like. Plus, when one is …
Although we have been thinking about our goals for the garden this year, we did not really sit down and plan it all out until last weekend. We decided what exactly we were going to plant and based on that we came up with a design for the raised-bed garden that we are going to …
There are two foods that are synonymous with Utica, NY: chicken riggies and greens. I already covered the riggies, this time I am making Utica greens. There are many ways to make greens, the Utica way of making greens adds a prosciutto, hot peppers, bread crumbs, cheese and chicken stock and then goes in the …
Pasta comes from a box that you find at the supermarket, right? Not true, before there were supermarkets, or markets of any kind pasta was made from scratch in the home. You need only four ingredients and 99% of you have them in your home right now. The process is fairly easy, but the rolling …
This month has been busy. I mean B-U-S-Y. Add to our typical busy weekends two weddings, two baby and one bridal shower. Mix in two children’s birthdays and it makes for a month where you don’t get much chance to catch your breath. We do have a few minutes today so we are going to …