by Renee Pottle | Sep 22, 2015 | Recipes From the Garden, Soups, Sauces, and Entrees
Enjoy the harvest with this easy, Mediterranean inspired, eggplant and pasta recipe. Long time readers know that I am a big advocate of the Mediterranean Diet and that I credit it with helping me to keep my genetically high cholesterol somewhat under control. Of... 
by Renee Pottle | Sep 19, 2015 | Recipes From the Garden, Sourdough and Other Fermented Foods
Excess zucchini plus sourdough starter equals a unique quick bread. Sometimes the garden fairy (you know, the tooth fairy’s sister!) brings us too many zucchini. And sometimes she brings us only a few zucchini – but they are giants! In either case, the... 
by Renee Pottle | Jul 24, 2015 | Instagram, Recipes From the Garden, Soups, Sauces, and Entrees
Feeling lazy? Vegetarian pasta is the answer when you are just too tired to spend hours cooking. I have always found Thursday to be the toughest night of the week. We are all tired, but still have another full day to go before we can rest. When the kids were little,... 
by Renee Pottle | Jul 24, 2015 | Ice Cream and Candy, Instagram, Recipes From the Garden
Watermelon sherbet is a refreshing treat on a hot summer’s day. It’s watermelon season. Sweet and juicy, maybe nothing says summer more than watermelon. I remember planting watermelon seeds in third grade as a school project. I babied that seedling, and... 
by Renee Pottle | Jul 16, 2015 | Ice Cream and Candy, Instagram, Recipes From the Garden
It’s easy to turn fresh apricots into Honey Apricot Vanilla Sorbet or Brown Sugar Almond Apricot Sorbet. And a great way to celebrate National Ice Cream Month! Earlier this week I mentioned that I had purchased 27 pounds of very ripe apricots. After eating my... 
by Renee Pottle | Jun 11, 2015 | Fermenting, Recipes From the Garden
Even the cats are awed by the open market in Chania, Crete. We just got back from a fantastic trip to Greece. I’ll be writing more about the food over the next few weeks, but one of my favorite places was the market in Chania, Crete. As you can see, even the...