If your garden looked anything like mine this year, you were left with buckets of undersized, hard green tomatoes and not many rosy reds. No matter – there are all kinds of things to do with green tomatoes! Make a green salsa verde, or a green tomato pie, or drench them in cornmeal and fry [...]
Archive for the ‘Canning’ Category
17 Sep
Pickled Hot Cherry Peppers
I first got a bag of these beautiful hot cherry peppers at a stand in New Jersey, and then they started showing up in my CSA. I love peppers, but what to do with them all? I found this great recipe from Martha Stewart (I know, I know). These little peppers are especially great cold [...]
19 Nov
Homemade Applesauce – it’s not too late!
I admit I was a little late embracing apple season. By the time I finally made it out to Linvilla Orchards, pick-your-own season had just ended. Luckily, they still had plenty of apples. I bought a big box of “seconds” – apples with slight blemishes that are still great for cooking and half the price! [...]
27 Aug
Canning Tomatoes
Since my various heirloom tomato plants have all decided this year to either get the blight or under-produce, I ordered 20 pounds of roma tomatoes from the Lancaster Farm Fresh CSA for canning. They arrived with the rest of my CSA delivery, in a very strong box. Growing up in Indiana, a least a couple [...]
9 Jul
Savory Jellies
I’ve been a bad blogger. In the last week I’ve been transitioning from my old PC to a spiffy new Mac, and since I’m not the most computer-literate person I know, document and photo transfers took longer than expected. But I’m back! And promise to do better in the future. I’m kind of obsessed with [...]
