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 [...]
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Candied Meyer Lemons
Today is Dan’s birthday! He’s 26 on this coldest of Sundays and we will be spending an evening out celebrating his birth. I for one am very glad that he was born. As part of the lead-up to his birthday I candied lemons to use as a topping for a lemon meringue pie, which we [...]
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 [...]
Herb Infused Olive Oil
I love having a garden. For the past few years we’ve been hodge podging a garden wherever we were, growing herbs (and incubating vengeful habanero plants) on windowsills, planting tomatoes in the free space at work, always on the brink of what we really wanted. In a lot of ways we’re still on the brink [...]
