3 variations on baked beans: sweet, smoky, spicy
THE FREEZERS WERE too tightly packed till now to do anything but choose the forward-facing foods. (Sound familiar?) But I’ve [read more…]
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winter squash-coconut milk soup with garam masala
THE RABBITS got the beans that year. The cold weather all that same “summer” got some of the tomatoes. But [read more…]
skins-on applesauce to freeze, can, and share
MY FAMILY CALLS IT ‘PO SAUCE, with the “po” representing the last syllable of the word “apple,” the way my [read more…]
how to store garden vegetables for winter
WE TALKED ABOUT storing tender ornamental plants recently, but what about garden vegetables, now that colder nights and days are [read more…]
skins-on easy tomato sauce to freeze
I SPEND RAINY DAYS in harvest season writing, and reading, and streaming a bounty of BBC and other British television [read more…]
dan koshansky’s refrigerator dill pickles
NEARLY 30 YEARS AGO ALMOST TO THE DAY, I ate pickles for breakfast with lovely Dan Koshansky, a retired railroad [read more…]
recipes to help keep up with the csa share or garden’s bounty, with ali stafford
HOW DO YOU GRILL vegetables to perfection? And what do I do with my garlic scapes, or the greens on [read more…]
herb jam and quick pickles, with sarah owens (cookbook giveaway)
LAST TIME WE CHECKED IN with expert gardener and baker Sarah Owens, at the start of 2016, it was just [read more…]
can, freeze, or dry? home food preservation basics, with elizabeth andress
PERHAPS YOU’RE SCANNING the seed catalogs, imagining tasting that first sweet ‘Sugar Snap’ peapod, or (finally!) a ripe garden tomato—both [read more…]
naturally sweet canning and preserving, with marisa mcclellan
THE RHUBARB will be up soon, and the strawberries won’t be too far behind, arriving around the time I’ll get [read more…]
rescue operation: freezing stored garlic, onions
REACHING INTO THE NET BAG of onions in my barn this morning, I got a little wakeup call—from a few [read more…]
pickled cranberries, pear butter and more, with marisa mcclellan of food in jars
‘TIS THE SEASON for starting to concoct some of the holiday trimmings—especially delicious homemade gifts that can also figure into [read more…]
‘saving the season’ apple butter recipe, with kevin west
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA-based but Southeast-bred Kevin West strikes me at once as a very modern and also a very old-fashioned guy–a [read more…]
garlic powder, preserved lemons and more, in alana chernila’s ‘the homemade kitchen’
WHAT DO TWO OF THE SIMPLEST, most familiar ingredients like garlic and lemons add up to? Plenty, in the hands [read more…]
how to solve the feared canned-pumpkin shortage (adopt a squash!)
THE MEDIA’S WHIPPING UP panicky headlines this week, faster than you can turn cream to pie topping. One outlet after [read more…]
