Homemade Tomato Paste
I am very tired; we did not stop all weekend. It’s a sad thing when you have to come to work to get some rest. We got two bushels of roma tomatoes from the CSA this week, then picked up five dozen ears...
View ArticleNectarine Crumb Cake
‘Tis Wednesday. This is a good thing. Not everything is good, of course; one of my most vexing problems right now is that there was a massive update to the recipe plugin I use – Easy Recipe – that has...
View ArticleTempura Okra
Well, it’s Monday again, and all sorts of things are going on around here. The print function of the recipe plugin I use is still broken (I apparently have the developers stumped as to why), so for...
View ArticleDelicata Squash with Apples and Chili Spices
Arrrrggghhh – it’s the 10th Anniversary of Talk Like a Pirate Day, mateys! Well, that was fun. Anyhoo, it’s also Wednesday, which is almost as fun as Talk Like a Pirate Day. For what it’s worth, I’m...
View ArticleGrain-Free Peach Cobbler
Happy Monday, everyone! As you can see, I’m posting – that means the migration to the new webhost went smoothly this weekend. Much more smoothly, in fact, than I could have hoped for. There were a...
View ArticleHam Salad
Things are beginning to calm down around here as I become comfortable in my new web hosting home. I’m still putting things away and rearranging the furniture, but all is well at the Sushi Bar and I’m...
View ArticleSquash and Crab Bisque
I know it’s still hot in many parts of the country, but here in northeast Ohio autumn has arrived. Temps have been in the low-to-mid 60s during the day (that’s the mid-to-upper teens for you Celsius...
View ArticleApplesauce
Well, here it is, October already, and we’re all dressed up for Halloween at the Sushi Bar – it’s just so much fun. The fall harvest is beginning to wind down a bit; we picked up our last CSA share...
View ArticleAutumn Beef Stew
Our refrigerator and pantry runneth over, with all sorts of interesting things. Root vegetables and winter squashes seem to be everywhere, and why not? It’s certainly the season for them. I have come...
View ArticleHoney Roasted Butternut Squash
I will be SO glad when this damn election is over with, I cannot even begin to tell you. And that’s enough of that. I didn’t post last Friday or yesterday when it’s been my habit for, well, forever to...
View ArticleRosemary Roasted Purple Potatoes
I have several recipes squirreled away, but am a bit overwhelmed so you get the simplest of them today. Which is not to say that it isn’t a good recipe, because it is – it’s just…simple. Recently we...
View ArticleThe Harvest
It’s mid-October, and I am (more or less) done canning, freezing and otherwise preserving for the year. Hallelujah. I meant to take photos, I really did, but between the hectic work week and the...
View ArticleApple Roasted Chicken
Happy Monday, everyone. I hope you all had a lovely weekend and came back to work well rested and ready to face the day! Yeah…me neither. Ah, well – there’s always next weekend to try to actually...
View ArticleCurried Apple Soup
The name of this recipe should probably be “Curried Apple and Sweet Potato Soup with Pecans” but jeez – that’s kind of a mouthful, isn’t it? Honestly, though, no matter what it’s called, it SHOULD be a...
View ArticleApple-Cranberry Muffins
I’d promised myself I wasn’t going to make any more “sweet things” for awhile, then I realized the holiday season is almost upon us, and decided that perhaps “fewer sweet things” might be in order....
View ArticleVenison Meatloaf
I mentioned earlier this week that we’d been gifted with some beautiful venison over the weekend. Now, when I was younger, I disliked deer meat – the time or two I’d had it, it had a nasty, wild,...
View ArticleHoney-Mustard Venison Chops
It didn’t occur to me until I’d written the recipe and sat down to begin this post that this is the second venison recipe in a row I’ve posted. I’d tell you I’m sorry but, well, I’m not. One of the...
View ArticlePumpkin Pie Pancakes
Since I published it, Butternut Squash Pancakes has been my most popular recipe. I’m not entirely sure why – well, except for the fact they’re delicious pancakes – but it is. It occurred to me this...
View ArticleCranberry-Orange Chutney
It’s November already. I’m not sure how that happened, but it did. (Well, okay, I know how it happened, it just sort of came more quickly than I expected.) And because it’s November, that means that...
View ArticleGluten-Free Apple Crisp
Well, hello Monday. Couldn’t you have waited until tomorrow to show up? Apart from the normal reluctance to participate in Monday, it’s made worse this week by the fact that the weekend was relatively...
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