My Adventures in Gardening…Continued

My Adventures in Gardening…Continued

Finally, the warmth is overtaking the cool temperatures and our gardens are starting to burst, bloom and flourish. I always like to give an update or two each summer on how my gardens are doing and what I’m growing. This year, I decided to try 

Hello March

Hello March

Hallelujah, it’s finally March. It’s still snowing here in Northern Illinois but March is here and with it the knowledge that spring is just around the corner. I admit that I tend to hibernate a bit in the cold winter months but now, as the 

Lobster Bisque

Lobster Bisque

It’s been a long time since I looked up a lobster bisque recipe because I’ve always made it (and shrimp bisque) the same way.  So what I discovered is that I’ve (apparently) been making it wrong all these years. Every recipe I came across called 

Fire Roasted Baba Ganoush

Fire Roasted Baba Ganoush

I grow eggplant every year in my garden because it’s one of our favorites. I’ve grown a few different varieties and we’ve loved them all. The plants don’t require any special care and aren’t prone to many diseases; I’ve never had a problem growing them here 

How to Make Homemade Sauerkraut

How to Make Homemade Sauerkraut

I admit that I’ve put off posting this fermentation recipe for quite some time. Not because it’s difficult or time-consuming because it’s neither, but because I’m absolutely terrible at photographing the process from beginning to end. (though I didn’t do too badly in showing you 

Oven Roasted Cherry Tomatoes with Fresh Herbs

Oven Roasted Cherry Tomatoes with Fresh Herbs

It was not a stellar year for my tomato plants this season. Though I harvested quite a few, it was certainly not a typical year. Cool nights, flooding rains and cooler-than-average daytime temps do not make for happy, bountiful tomato plants. The exception to all 

Eggplant Bianca

Eggplant Bianca

Every year I’m in awe of just how many eggplants one plant can product and this year is no different. Here are a couple of shots of some of the eggplants I harvested out of our garden last year: Beautiful, aren’t they? This past weekend, I decided