by Renee Pottle | Sep 27, 2021 | Canning and Preserving, Dried, Instagram, Uncategorized
If you have an excess of half-ripened slicing tomatoes, you may wonder what to do with them. They seldom ripen on the vine, and even if you bring them in to ripen on the windowsill, they lack sweet summer tomato taste.
by Renee Pottle | Dec 9, 2019 | gardening, Grow Your Own Food
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by Renee Pottle | Jul 15, 2019 | Recipes From the Garden, Soups, Sauces, and Entrees
If you like peas as much as I do, you will want to make this bacon-free pea salad. It’s perfect for a summer picnic, cook-out, or easy weekday lunch. Picnic-worthy pea salad The first time I ever had pea salad, we had just moved to Washington state’s mid-Columbia... 
by Renee Pottle | Oct 9, 2018 | Basics, Recipes From the Garden
Zucchini bread, zucchini brownies, zucchini relish – what to do with garden zucchini overload. Update: Zucchini continues to be a big part of my late summer-fall diet, and maybe yours too. This post was originally published in 2015 so it is time to update the... 
by Renee Pottle | Oct 9, 2018 | Recipes From the Garden, Soups, Sauces, and Entrees
Somewhere between Alfredo and mac/cheese, you won’t miss the pasta with this creamy zoodle concoction. Well, 2018 has been another year of zucchini overload (aren’t they all!). We are now embarking on week 6 of zucchini almost every night, and the garden still has a...