It was time to take the pumpkin out of the pot and eat it. In the final analysis, that was what solved these big problems of life. You could think and think and get nowhere, but you still had to eat your pumpkin. That brought you down to earth. That gave you a reason for [...]
Entries Tagged as 'recipes'
Preserving Pumpkin (and 2 Recipes)
October 20th, 2009 · 12 Comments
Tags: bread, canning/preserving, garden, recipes
A New Way to Freeze Cherry Tomatoes: Tasty Herb-roasted Bites
October 3rd, 2009 · 18 Comments
We’ve had a great tomato year–about as good as it gets in Seattle. A hot summer, and warmth into the beginning of October (last year the green tomatoes practically withered on the vine in early August). But autumn is truly with us now, and as I pick tomatoes this Harvest Moon morning, it is with [...]
Tags: canning/preserving, garden, recipes
Heirloom Tomato Tart
August 30th, 2009 · 5 Comments
It’s the peak of tomato season in Seattle–the plants are covered with the most beautiful shades of green, orange, yellow, red, and burgundy. We are canning tomatoes, drying tomatoes, making salsa, carrying baskets of tomatoes to neighbors, concocting tomato recipes, and of course eating cherry tomatoes like they’re potato chips. Last night I made this [...]
Tags: garden, recipes, Uncategorized
Homemade Pita: Cool Bread for Hot Days
July 22nd, 2009 · 2 Comments
One of the things I love most about baking bread is the warmth, both symbolic and actual, that it brings to the kitchen on a chilly autumn or winter day. Fresh homemade bread is just as delicious with our summer pastas and garden salads as it is with our winter soups, but when the kitchen [...]
Local Asparagus! A Super-delicious Asparagus Galette Recipe
May 4th, 2009 · 5 Comments
Don’t you love waking up in the morning these days? Spring is springing, a heavenly cup of coffee is forthcoming, AND we are smack in the middle of local asparagus season. Life is good. It is arguable that there is never any defensible reason to do anything with asparagus besides roasting it beneath a thin [...]
Deep PB & J: Easy Homemade Peanut Butter
April 7th, 2009 · 14 Comments
One day early on this school year, Claire came home and said, “Mommy, you bake the bread for my sandwich, and we use our homemade jam. We should mash up some peanuts with a rock or something instead of buying peanut butter, so the whole thing will be homemade!” Well, that’s a girl after my [...]
Tags: bread, peanut butter, recipes
The Best Sandwich Bread Recipe Ever (and a little baking story)
April 2nd, 2009 · 15 Comments
My biological clock started ticking in college. I was, after all, of child-bearing age in body, if not in mind, and I’d always had maternal tendencies. I didn’t want a child yet. I just wanted to give birth. Whenever this compulsion became overwhelming, I baked bread. It was the perfect psychological antidote, providing my hormone-ridden [...]
Tangled Nest Granola Recipe–Just say “NO” to Cereal Boxes
March 21st, 2009 · 7 Comments
Lately, I find it hard to shell out for boxed cereal. It’s so expensive, not particularly nutritious, and there isn’t even that much cereal in the box. The best boxed cereal–the organic, unsugary kind, is exorbitant! And no matter what kind of cereal we buy in a box, ounce for ounce, we are paying a [...]
Tags: breakfast, recipes, waste reduction
