By Amanda Rose | Citrus
The summer is all about lemonade around here, in all different variations. Pink lemonade is always a hit, I expect because it’s pink. It’s hard to beat pink. Our pink lemonade follows our basic lemonade formula: Add together water, lemon juice, and a sweetener. As the boys describe in the video below, in the case […]
Continue readingBy Jeanie Rose | Winter Squash
I had my introduction to roasted vegetables in a small Armenian restaurant in Fresno. We ordered a salad piled with roasted veggies and drizzled with olive oil vinaigrette and fresh parsley. When the salad was gone I wanted to lick the plate. The vegetables were room temperature but you could tell they had been roasted […]
Continue readingBy Jeanie Rose | Winter Squash
It is so easy to over plant winter squash, especially a variety like butternut. Those butternut squash vines produce like crazy. You can easily end up with 30 mature squash and still have some little green ones coming on. I share some of my favorite ideas in the video above. If you have an abundance […]
Continue readingBy Jeanie Rose | Eggplant
When summer is here and the garden is in full swing, you can sometimes get overloaded with eggplant. After using your three favorite recipes a couple of times each, you need a new plan. Here is a primo suggestion for enjoying eggplant today or saving it for winter. These are roasted eggplant cubes that serve […]
Continue readingBy Amanda Rose | Chocolate
When I was a kid, one of my favorite dessert treats when we went “out” was a soft serve ice cream from Foster Freeze dipped in chocolate. The chocolate was liquid and hardened when it hit the cold ice cream. If I craned my neck, I could see the person at Foster Freeze dipping my […]
Continue readingBy Amanda Rose | Tomatoes
This is just a quick tip for you tomato-lovers out there. Your plants are probably getting pretty big (knock on wood) and you probably wish you don’t have to go to the trouble of staking them in some way. Really, it’s a lot of work to stake them and then you have a bigger clean-up […]
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