Purslane Pesto with Goat Cheese
What do you get when you combine goat cheese, toasted walnuts, and a bunch of wild greens collected from the backyard? A deliciously satisfying meal. It was quite hot the other day and I was feeling lazy. I didn't have anything planned for dinner, but also didn't feel...
Favorite Homemade Marinara Sauce
One of the best things about having a home garden is growing tomatoes. And one of the best things about growing tomatoes is canning them to use later in the year. I am too lazy to can whole tomatoes, but happily put up jars and jars of fresh tomato puree. (See how to...
Herbed Goat Cheese Dip
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 high lactose...
Baked Beans From Scratch
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, and in many...
Best Ever Green Enchilada Sauce
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...
Roasted Vegetable Hand Pies
I once read a theory that our favorite season is the one in which we were born. Uh-huh. I've spent most of my life chasing summer. Moving to Washington state from Maine was like a dream come true. Sunny days. Summer that started in May and didn't end until September...
Pasta and Peas
The garden peas are ready to eat and I have been noshing on them for over a week now. I still prefer them raw, right off the vine, like when I was a child. As a result, I hardly ever have enough to freeze, can, or otherwise preserve. But one meal that has become a...
