How To Have Pesto All Year Long

How To Have Pesto All Year Long

The good news is, there is a way to get it into your freezer so you can use it in your soups, sauces and salad dressings all year long. Once the frosts come, it’s over. For basil that is. The leaves turn yellow and brown and the luscious flavor disappears. You can’t...
Kitchen Medicine: Coriander

Kitchen Medicine: Coriander

Do you have coriander in your kitchen cupboard? What do you use it for? Salad dressing, marinades, soups, dressings….Coriander is a common spice found in most spice racks. “It is one of those amazing spices that not only adds wonderful flavor to so many dishes...
Summer Garden Pesto

Summer Garden Pesto

Pesto is more than a condiment in my kitchen; actually it is the fifth food group in our house! It is so satisfying to make a batch of pesto every week and know that it is in the fridge to put on practically everything we eat. It feels so rewarding to top off any meal...
How to Eat a Pomegranate!

How to Eat a Pomegranate!

There are many large pomegranate trees in the old part of Vacavile, the town I grew up in. Some of them are over 50 years old….. We would raid the trees, come home with lots of fruit but my mom quickly sent us outside to eat our messy red plunder. Our clothes would be...