Like just about everyone who’s into canning, I get excited every year at the prospect of tomato season. The one time of year when tomatoes are available in abundance. The one time of year when you can get your hands on a fresh sun ripened tomato. Tomatoes harvest at just the right time and eaten right away can actually be startlingly sweet and flavorful.
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Around here we like to do things from scratch as much as possible. It’s more fun that way!…
Every year around this time a good friend of mine and I co-host a Cookie Party. We have been doing it for about 4 years now so it’s kind of a holiday tradition at this point.
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Sometimes it’s the little things. Little things like the tangiest salad dressing, the spicy dipping sauce or the perfect garlic parmesan cheese straws, that really just complete a dish. Or an entire meal for that matter.
These are those cheese straws people….
Bread has been the foundation of the human diet for millions of cultures for thousands of years. Here in the US, the tradition of baking bread daily has largely died in favor of the convenience of the grocery store. Most of what you can buy in the store these days, however, is not actual bread. It may have started that way but in the process of industrializing, and then later fortifying the bread-like product that now lines our shelves is nothing like the original bread that we are used to eating. It’s for this reason I have started to learn make baking bread more of a habit around our house….