Roasted Melrose Pepper Pasta
Roasted Melrose Pepper Pasta Sometimes life is a series of happy accidents. When I went to the nursery to buy my pepper plants for the season, I wanted to get more pepper plants than...
Category: Cooking and Gardening
Tot-Chilaquiles
Tot-Chilaquiles It’s the weekend again and after a long week of working and cooking meals no one wants to think about cooking. Let alone come up with what to cook on the weekend. Going...
Stove Top Pizza Sauce
A Tale of 2 Pizza Sauces: Act 1 Stove Top I started growing my own tomatoes in my raised bed garden. Since then, it has been a long time since I have bought a...
Quick Pizza Sauce
A Tale of Two Pizza Sauces: Act 2 I started growing my own tomatoes in my raised bed garden. Since then, it has been a long time since I have bought a jarred or...
Effortless Risotto Recipe
Effortless Risotto Recipe In looking back, it is hard to remember when I first had the pleasure of tasting risotto, likely it was on my first trip to Italy back in 2013. I grew...
Imitation Jack’s Salsa
Homemade salsa: For many years my husband and I would buy Jack’s salsa from the store. Jack’s salsa uses fresh ingredients, and the flavor is a great combination of tomatoes, peppers, onions and other...
Quick Pizza Sauce
Quick Pizza Sauce I find myself back in my tomato garden and it seems like the number of tomatoes per plant just keeps multiplying. Not wanting to waste fresh tomatoes from my organic garden,...
Umami Instant Pot Sticky Rice
Umami Instant Pot Sticky Rice Why I developed by own version of umami instant pot sticky rice. As a child growing up in small town Iowa, it was a big deal when a Chinese...