Passions I can't deny
Posted in Cooking, Recipes, preserving on Aug 5th, 2010
While we were over at Reid’s Orchard picking up some peaches, we also picked up some early apples. We usually wait for the main harvest to come in, but thought we’d like to see what these tasted like. They weren’t real good for eating – a bit too mealy for us – but they make [...]
I know. I just can’t stop singing her praises! After pouring my first cup of coffee yesterday, I got dressed (long pants, tshirt, sunhat and Off slathered all over my body) and went down to find our sweet Juliets. It was another drying day for these beauties. I had no idea that I would end [...]
So here is my recipe.
So let’s get started!
I put blackberries in a sauce pan.
I simmered them bringing them to a boil. Then I turned off the heat and gently pushed down on them, releasing more juice.
I let them cool for awhile. It was now time to get rid of the pulp.
After pushing the juice through [...]
Posted in Baking, Cooking, Photography, Recipes, gardening on May 31st, 2010
Yes, we have cherries! Yeah! I get so excited about these tart cherries. They’re pretty and so yummy!
So now that we have these cherries, what do we do? Make a cobbler, of course. I use the same recipe for the cherries as I do with my blackberries except I add a little vanilla. This recipe [...]
This week one of our challenges was making Turkish-Style Pita Bread.
This uses the master recipe dough from this book. I didn’t have black sesame seeds so I used regular sesame and poppy seeds.
Here is a closer look at the crumb.
I was expecting a pita which is much thinner. This turned out with a nice crumb [...]
Posted in Cooking, Photography, Ramblings, Recipes on Apr 7th, 2010
It’s finally spring here at Happy Acres. We ate our first bunch of asparagus. Yum! We harvested a little over 6 ounces so far, but every day I see more and more of the green goodies poking through the soil. There is nothing like fresh asparagus. And to think I used to not like this [...]
Now that the season will soon be upon us I need to move some blackberries out of that prime real estate known as the freezer. Last year I found a way to use up some of those blackberries by making Blackberry Syrup which we enjoyed all summer long. I’m writing about this now since the [...]
Today was my day to make yogurt. Well, really it’s my month. This used to be Dave’s task, but many months ago we decided to take turns on yogurt duty. Today was my day for this first batch this month.
If you’ve never eaten homemade yogurt, you are missing a treat. It’s not sweet (you can [...]
Well, I finally did it – I put away one of my gadgets – the dehydrator. It’s been sitting on the corner of the kitchen counter since spring. I know it should have been put away a month or so, but as long as it’s out, in my mind it’s still summer!
The Excalibur is a [...]
Many years ago when I was going through a tough time, the only thing I wanted to eat was Maxine’s (a local deli) curry chicken salad. I never even thought about making it until about 13 years later when my future hubby and I traveled to the Smoky Mountains. There we ate at Sister Cats, [...]
