Summer brings with it a bumper crop of tomatoes from gardens and produce stands. Heirloom tomatoes are all all time favorite at our house. They are not the perfectly shaped orbs you will find at the grocery stores. Heirlooms have a shorter shelf life so they are not found in all stores. These tomatoes have a superior taste though they may be very odd shaped.
Homemade Pickle Relish is very easy to make and best of all you can control what you put in to it. When my garden stares to produce lots of crunchy cucumbers, I get ready to preserve relish. This relish is so tasty on hot dogs, burgers, added to chicken and turkey salad, and much more.
Summer is winding to a close but my zucchini plants are still thriving and producing well. I am trying to hang on to summer and the bountiful garden harvest. This Zucchini Lasagna is delicious using tomato sauce I preserved and zucchini from my garden.
Have you ever wished for healthy canned soups to have for a quick meal? Did you know that they are very easy to make and preserve? Over the summertime when there are a lot of veggies ready I can soups. It does take a bit of an effort but I love it when I need a quick meal. Try this Cheeseburger Soup and you won’t be disappointed!
If you like chocolate and mint together these cookies are just for you! They are chewy with just the perfect amount of mint chips in them. Best of all they are sugar-free and taste amazing.
Zucchini…. is a very prolific veggie found in many gardens. My garden always has room for at least 6 zucchini plants! We love to use them in all kinds of ways. One of my favorite ways is to preserve some of my zucchini harvest for winter. I freeze Zucchini Bisque in pint containers to enjoy on cold blustery winter days.
Mid-summer brings with it luscious ears of sweet corn picked from gardens. Our favorite kinds of sweet corn are bi-colored or yellow since they are sweeter in taste. Sausage Corn Pie is a Pennsylvania Dutch treat I make a few times a year when the sweet corn is ready. It is a hearty one-dish meal that my family thoroughly enjoys. I use a sourdough pie crust for the double crust which has become our favorite.
Sourdough is a very intriguing world to venture into. Once you have a good reliable sourdough starter you may as well use it in whatever you can. How about Sourdough Chocolate Chip Cookies? With this recipe I use starter that is in my fridge and has not been fed for some times. It can be called discard or unfed starter. These cookies are so delicious and you wouldn’t even know that sourdough was used in them.
Zucchini is one of the most prolific vegetables you can grow in your garden. Once they are picked they can be use in almost any vegetable side dish and even transformed into cakes, cookies and bars. I try and pick zucchini small…no larger than 10-12 inches but occasionally some get over looked.
For many years a large portion of my garden was filled with black raspberry bushes. My children well remember the days when we picked 30+ pints to sell to a local produce stand. There is nothing better than a sun warmed ripe black raspberry! Even the scratches from the thorns were forgotten when the berries were ripe. This jelly is delicious spread on soo
