Get your tart cherries while you still can! I've heard this is the last week! I personally bought a TON of tart cherries a few weeks ago. I guess you can only get them in a few parts of the country - I'm in one of those areas. They go bad pretty quickly so they're really only available at farmer's markets - If you get some, use them quickly! I cooked with some of them, froze some of them, and still had about a million and 12 left. Because they're not very good eaten plain, I decided to can the ...
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GF Bisquick Copycat Recipe, GF Pancake Mix; Gluten Free, Soy Free, Dairy Free, Nut Free Pancake Mix Recipe
I never really liked pancakes growing up - they always made me feel blah when I ate them. Same with milk. I wonder why? Hmmmm maybe because they were full of things I'm intolerant too! A few months after cutting gluten out of my diet I found gluten free Bisquick and made some pancakes. They were delicious, but the store bought mix was expensive and kind of grainy! It couldn't be too hard to mix up a pancake mix of my own - here are the results - my Gluten Free, Soy Free, Dairy Free, Nut Free ...
Organic Canning: The BEST Corn Relish Ever Recipe
So, last year I made like 4 batches of corn relish. I thought for sure I was going to have millions of jars left in the pantry come corn season this year but nope! All of a sudden everyone I know LOVES corn relish (I really had no idea) and even people who don't like it seem to like this kind. I kid you not, I gave it to grandparents, parents (3 different sets), friends, siblings, and more - every single one of them said that it was the BEST corn relish they've ever had! Most ate the entire ...
How to Cook Planked Great Lakes Whitefish in the Oven
The absolute best whitefish I've ever had was in Kilarney, Canada a little town on the Northern Shore of the Georgian Bay in Ontario. You literally watch the fishing boats coming in, they take the whitefish, clean them, and then bring them out to an old red school bus turned food stand where they fry it. The second best, from Charlevoix, MI, where I've vacationed since I was born. That's where I was introduced to planked fish - which I recreate at home all the time! It makes for a light and ...
Roasted Corn with Jalapeno and Lime: Summer Side Dish Recipe
I'm quite the baby when it comes to spicy food but every year I decide to grow jalapenos and then feel guilty if I don't use them. I had a few that turned red which means they need to be picked. I also bought some extra corn at the farmers market (25 ears to be exact - well, 20 of them are laying around waiting to be turned into corn relish) - so, what's for dinner? Some Great Lakes Whitefish and roasted corn with jalapenos. My hubby and I had an amazing corn side dish at Michael Jordan's ...
How to De-Kernel Corn: The Easiest and Least Messy Way Possible
It's corn season! Yum! I happen to have a husband that had his front teeth knocked out in a motorcycle accident before we met years ago (yes - he has teeth- but they're veneers) sooooo around my house we don't eat much corn on the cob. Solution - get the corn off the cob! If you know me you know that I have a love/hate relationship with kitchen gadgets. First, so many of them are so pointless - have you seen the banana slicer? Really? Is it that hard to slice a banana on your own? How big ...
Organic Canning: Pickled Banana Pepper Recipe
I harvested some banana peppers last week - I picked 18 total and I have a TON left on the plants to ripen. Now it's time to pickle them! I like this recipe because you can calculate the ingredients based on the number of pints you want to create. My 18 peppers filled 4 pint jars. I used sweet banana peppers but you can use pretty much anything - last year I used Hungarian Wax Peppers (WAY too hot for me), Keep in mind that the amount of peppers needed is an estimate. My suggestion would be ...
My Harvest So Far – My Organic Garden Update
So, I was going to post a new recipe today but to be quite honest, I'm not cooking because I'm busy :). I decided instead that I would show give you an update on my garden/jungle. Yes, it's pretty much a jungle. I've harvested a TON of cherry tomatoes in the last 2 weeks and they are AMAZING! Five of these bad boys to be exact! My neighbors seem to think I went a bit overboard with the tomato plants. I planted 16 of them in a pretty small space (1 per square foot) and then used tomato ...
Gluten Free, Soy Free, Dairy Free, Nut Free Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe: Best cookies I’ve found!
Not only are these gluten, soy, nut, peanut and dairy free - they're also nightshade free if you're like my husband and have to stay away from them. I've tried a million different chocolate chip cookie recipes. They have always turned out grainy, crumbly, and blah until NOW! The first time I made these my husband and I (mainly my husband) ate the entire batch in about 2 days (hence why I don't make them very often)! These cookies are the closest thing I've found to their gluten containing ...
When to Harvest Banana Peppers? My Organic Garden
So, I've be scouring the web trying to figure out if my peppers are ready to be picked. I've read multiple things but I was getting anxious to pick a few, especially because I want to make sure that I encourage growth of more. Well, the mail man made the decision for me yesterday and decided that instead of walking the extra 20 or so feet around my garden from my neighbors house - he would walk RIGHT THROUGH it. I'm so mad! I have literally been dedicating time to these now large pepper ...