By Jeanie Rose | Eggplant
If you plan to preserve part of your summer harvest, put eggplant on the list, particularly if you live in a long-season area. Eggplant starts coming in abundance in late August and can continue into November. You will have lots of opportunity for freezing the extra eggplant. To reap greatest benefit from your preserved eggplant, […]
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By Jeanie Rose | Berries
Have you ever noticed how fruit varieties that come to harvest at the same time in any given area usually taste really good together? Whose great plan was that!?! This fruit combination for popsicles plays on that synergy. We were coming to the close of our raspberry crop. You know how it is when there’s […]
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By Jeanie Rose | Eggplant
On a long plane ride I sat beside a woman from Hot Springs, Arkansas. She realized I had a big garden and offered me a recipe for an eggplant dish served at the Hot Springs Hotel. I scratched out the recipe on the back of my ticket packet. It sounded pretty interesting. Once home, I […]
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By Jeanie Rose | Summer Squash
Once I decided that purslane was probably our most reliable summer green, I began to explore ideas to use it, besides tossing it to the chickens. Food and Wine posted a splendid recipe by chef Alain Coumont. He was my inspiration for this soup, although he would only vaguely recognize the influence in my final […]
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By Jeanie Rose | Corn
I found this recipe in the Food Network Favorite Recipes book; they found the recipe while taping in Mexico. The first time I tried it we all agreed that we would be happy to just eat a meal of Mexican grilled corn. The five-star end result is much greater than the sum of the parts. […]
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By Jeanie Rose | Summer Squash
If you grow summer squash, then I know you are always looking for new ways to use that VERY prolific vegetable in your cooking. This is our latest find, an inspiration from My Recipes. The recipe is tweaked to fit our dietary specs, but the foundation comes from My Recipes. When you want to be […]
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