By Jeanie Rose | Summer Squash
Chocolate and zucchini play well together. If the game is hide-n-go-seek, zucchini almost always wins. It stays perfectly hidden under the rich chocolate goodness. We already know this from the many times we have surprised guests with our chocolate zucchini cake. Looking for something more totable than cake, I found this recipe for zucchini brownies. […]
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By Jeanie Rose | Tomatoes
If you garden and preserve a lot of food, sooner or later you face the problem of all those who tread the same path before you. Where do you store it all? The freezers are full. Those special shelves you installed for canned goods are full. The pantry is bursting at the seams. Dehydrating is […]
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By Jeanie Rose | Greens
Glorious Summer! Wander out to the garden and gather some crunchy cucumbers, a ripe tomato or two, and a handful of purslane for the main ingredients of a memorable salad. Purslane? Yes, that weed you’ve been tossing into the compost is a wonderfully nutritious summer green – as well as tasty. Purslane is a bit […]
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By Jeanie Rose | Potatoes
The love many of us have for potatoes may be slightly adaptive — my in-laws told stories of being able to get through several winters because they had bags of beans and bags of potatoes stored up. Their story is not unique. For generations there have been families that knew potatoes would get them from […]
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By Jeanie Rose | Tomatoes
There are times when you want to slip those skins off your juicy red garden tomatoes: When you’re adding chopped fresh tomato to a cooked dish where you do not want to see bits of tomato skin floating around at serving time. After all your hard work, this can look pretty tacky. When someone in […]
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By Amanda Rose | Summer Squash
Finding new ways of using the frozen grated zucchini stash is always a kick. Some of those ways are basically mediocre. Some ways make it into the “Let’s do it again!” category. This cake is a “Do Again”. In fact, this a cake to take to a potluck along with several copies of the recipe. […]
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