Cold temps signal soup time, which means it’s finally time to put some of my locally grown butternut squash to work in my favorite butternut squash soup. It’s delicious, colorful, fairly teeming with vitamins and almost certainly low cal, although I don’t have a nutritional analysis.
The only part I’m not crazy about is peeling the […]

Categories: Local food · Recipes · Healthy eating

Just in case you hadn’t noticed, I went with the tomato for my favicon. If you use Firefox or Safari, you’ll see it in your browser’s address line and, if you add it to your bookmarks, in your bookmarks list. It’ll show up eventually if you don’t see it now in the address line, although […]

Categories: General

Today was the day: I opened the okra that I pickled recently.
The results? Mixed, I’d say.
The plus side: The okra had a nice, crisp texture and quite good flavor, except for…
The minus side: Wow, were they salty. Must have made some computation error when revising a recipe down to a single half-pint quantity. Also, some […]

Categories: Recipes · Food preparation

Picked up my last bag of the season from Rolling Prairie Farmer’s Alliance this week. As usual, the produce is (are?) things of beauty.

Seems as though the peppers were late in coming this year (which would be understandable considering our late spring freeze and rain) , but they’ve been plentiful at the end.
The final bag’s […]

Categories: Local food