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Tools:1 bowl1 teaspoon or soup spoon size spoon for spooning potato out of the potato skins1 cutting board and a knife1 8×8 baking dish1 cast iron frying pan, and a cast iron lid from a pot that more or less covers the frying pan1 potato … Continue readingTWICE BAKED MAINE POTATOES with Roasted Fennel, Squash, and Monteray Jack cheese.
About two days ago now my mother made some peanut butter cookies. My dog looked overjoyed. I realized that she thought they were for her. As that was not so, I endeavored to make some COOKIES for her WHILE THE OVEN WAS STILL AT 350 … Continue readingyam YUM MUFFIN-COOKIE for dogs and their humans too
By using only an egg yolk and not the whites for cooking with, twice in the last month or so , twice then leftover raw egg white has supplied the opportunity to make something such as Meringue Cookies with. (This is a possibility that artists … Continue readingMERINGUES and pack food
Many vegetables can still be in the garden, even this late in the season. Several webpages and blogs tell about winter gardening and harvesting experiences – such as leaving some root vegetables right outside underground where grown, and in winter, digging down through deep snow … Continue readingvegetables of autumn in the garden
Autumn is a great time to make lasagna – the colors of the lasagna are reminiscent of the colors of the autumn leaves, lasagna warms body and soul, and an oven warms a home. Ground beef is optional for this dish, but is included in … Continue readingLASAGNA
Flowering Oregano tops from the garden are great with chicken. Not much food has grown in our garden this year, but we’ve had some success with oregano despite or because of some oak seedlings (which during a time of little rain, shaded the oregano at … Continue readingORANGE ONION CHICKEN
Garden specialists who sell plants for food, know lots about food safety of their garden products (of their fruit, vegetables, seeds, and flowers). How safe the little bit of food grown in our vegetable garden is this year, is uncertain, though anything grown or that … Continue readingFood safety, gardens,
This year’s planted annual vegetable garden has not resulted in many edibles yet – almost not any – and, the days are growing cooler. A first attempt at a garden, and quite a bit learned. If I had watered more regularly, rather than relying on … Continue readingGrowing very few vegetables, mid august
Thank goodness for great farms and farmers with excellent fresh vegetables and fruit. In a few small garden patches, I’ve planted a few vegetables. Hopefully at the end of the summer, some of the plants might have lived a healthy summer, and so in addition … Continue readingGrowing a few vegetables
In spring, herbs start appearing that are good for making chicken stock with, though, the ones in the pot, are from the grocery store. The great carrots, local, and sweet. The chicken, free range – good to use all of it, including the carcass. The … Continue readingCHICKEN BROTH