October 6, 2012 kitchen pigs Making Pancetta Since the bacons on our just butchered pig were not very big (as expected), I'm making pancetta from some of the better belly pieces. A...
October 5, 2012 kitchen pigs Meat Day Results Sometimes folks ask me "How much meat do you get from a home grown hog?" The answer is... a lot. Pork chops... lots and lots of p...
September 23, 2012 kitchen Canning Green Beans Is everyone canning green beans? I got a great deal on a beautiful bushel of green beans from an Amish neighbor. They were stunning.... I go...
September 17, 2012 kitchen Putting Up Peppers and Corn I'm still digging my way out from under all those baskets of peppers I scored last week . Luckily I'm down to the last 2 or 3 pepper...
September 13, 2012 kitchen So many eggplants...... No time to talk! There's too many eggplants! I got a deal so I scooped them all up....and now... so many eggplants. And peppers! Look ou...
August 24, 2012 kitchen The Great Pepper War of 2012 Friends, I am slain. The Capsaicin Menace They got me. Day Three of the Salsa Surge was brutal. By days end the kitchen was destroyed, my fe...
August 21, 2012 kitchen Picking Peppers Wow! What a haul! Ten gallons of peppers picked in nothing flat. We drove several towns over and went to a Upick produce place. We really lo...
August 11, 2012 kitchen Canning Frenzy This is what a canning frenzy looks like. The kitchen is utterly destroyed. Every surface looks like this..... Just some of the 10 gallons ...
August 10, 2012 farm life kitchen Peps and Zucchini Not a peck but a nice bucket of peppers...... These are mostly Marconi and Hungarian sweet and wax peppers. The other day I also brought i...
August 6, 2012 kitchen How To Can Tomato Sauce If you've been hesitant to get into canning now is the perfect time to take that leap! Making and canning your own tomato sauce is a gre...
August 3, 2012 farm life kitchen Tomato time! No time to talk - its Tomato Season! I'm hauling them in by the bucket load...... Its like an Easter Egg hunt - the vines are positively...
August 1, 2012 kitchen Peach-Pepper Jelly Would you look at this! Isn't it beautiful? Peach jammy-jelly with beautiful flakes of spicy red pepper... and its delish! I've bee...
July 30, 2012 kitchen pigs Why I Put Up With The Porkers I had another post planned for today.... but then we had ribs last nite..... They were marvelous. We ate ourselves into a stupor. This, frie...
June 10, 2012 kitchen Chinese Five Spice Pork Belly on the Grill or Char Siu Back when we were parting up the pigs I labeled a couple cuts as "belly for the grill" and put them in the freezer. While it may ...
June 2, 2012 cheese notes kitchen Making a Stunning Neufchatel Cheese You may be wondering why I'm not making cheese this spring? Well, the sad fact is that my cheese fridge died and now I don't have an...