by Renee Pottle | Apr 8, 2013 | Recipes From the Garden, Soups, Sauces, and Entrees
Goat cheese, also known as Chevre, has to be one of the world’s most perfect foods. Although some feel that its distinctive flavor is an acquired taste, many of have learned to love its tangy creaminess. Goat’s milk, and therefore goat cheese, lacks the... 
by Renee Pottle | Mar 19, 2013 | breads, Instagram, Recipes From the Garden
For fruit lovers, this is the saddest time of the year. The grocery store selection is pretty slim once you get past the end of the apples and various forms of citrus. I love oranges, and have been on a bit of a blood orange bandwagon this week, but I also like... 
by Renee Pottle | Feb 14, 2013 | Recipes From the Garden, Soups, Sauces, and Entrees
There was a time when every young woman in New England learned how to bake beans before setting up her own home. It was a right of passage, sort of the Puritan answer to a debutante’s ball or filling one’s hope chest with pintucked silks. Baked beans were,... 
by Renee Pottle | Feb 13, 2013 | Recipes From the Garden, Syrups and Spreads
There was a time when the question, “what’s for dinner,” didn’t involve a trip to the grocery store but a trip to the pantry instead. A time when every homestead grew several different kinds of apples, and enterprising Moms took advantage of... 
by Renee Pottle | Feb 12, 2013 | and sweet treats, Recipes From the Garden
Here’s a great recipe to use up some of the dried fruit you made last summer. What is muesli? I like to think of it as hot oatmeal without the heat! If you, like me, never could stand mushy oatmeal, muesli may be the answer. Made from whole grain oats, dried... 
by Renee Pottle | Feb 11, 2013 | Recipes From the Garden, Soups, Sauces, and Entrees
If you grow tomatoes, you have probably faced the short days of autumn with a bounty of green tomatoes. Beautiful, plump tomatoes that are just not going to turn red. One way to quickly deal with all those tomatoes before the frost gets them is to chop and freeze...