As of five thirty yesterday afternoon, I am on my beach vacation. We left Baltimore Friday and headed to Raleigh for my cousin Elizabeth’s wedding. After a wonderful and fun filled wedding weekend and lunch with my sweet friend Julia and my mom, we packed up and drove to Morehead City. Today we’ll take the [...]
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Pickled Tomatoes
I love pickles. Pickled okra, pickled cucumber, pickled onions, pickled squash, pickled tomatoes, pickled peppers, pickled you name it. Year round they are my go to hit-the-spot salty treat. I can’t imagine a world without pickles. This summer I planted five or six yellow pear tomato plants. Unfortunately, two of the ones planted in our [...]
Apple Pie Filling, Preserved
One incredible side effect of attending art school is that holiday presents are built in to the whole experience. What should I give mom this year inevitably ends with “well, I made this awesome (fill in the blank depending on my course load) that she’d totally love.” And while I have no idea whether or [...]
Pickled Okra
Okra is one of those vegetables that people feel passionately about. Either they love it, with a dedicated, all consuming love, or they hate it. Dan and I fall into opposite ends of the okra spectrum. He doesn’t want it within ten feet of his plate (or at least no closer than my side of [...]
Peach Habanero Jam
I’m not sure when Dan and I became the kind of people we are today. And by “the kind of people we are” I don’t mean Firefly watching, unicorn joke making, shirts that light up owning geeks. I mean people that attempt to grow as much of their own food as possible, who bake their [...]
