What to Do with a Sink Full of Tomatoes

What to do with a sink full of tomatoes? There's tomato sauce of course, and lots of "over-the-sink" tomato sandwic…

Expectations and other random thoughts.

I have been woman down since Sunday with a nasty head cold. It has forced me to be in bed for the better part of the last two day…

You scratch my back....

5kg's of tomatoes from a friend who has them rotting on the ground have found their way into this recipe from Animal~Vegetab…

Rainy day jobs

I was all ready to make an inroad into my long to do list but woke up this morning to the sound of rain. In between rainy moments…

Eating local...

I try to plan one meal completely from our garden once a week, more if our plants are yielding lots! Tonight we had this to work …

Tomato Update

A couple of weeks back my carbon tomatoes were attacked by red spider mite. They also got very sunburnt and I didn't think an…

Little Beasties

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water...well that's not actually funny, because on Monday a Great White t…

Down ~ but not defeated!

I put up a good fight, I really did. My opponent was greater than me and worked at night too! Today I finally gave up and pulled …

"There are FLOWERS in my salad!"

Those were superman words when this was presented to him last night. I am happy that it was all homegrown - our first sweet cucum…

Out with the old - in with the new

We have had rain for a week. It put all my planting and garden work on hold but it was good for the earth. My cabbages are finall…

Repotting tomatoes

Today I repotted the tomatoes whose seed I sowed about a month ago in Winter. These did not go into our new hotbox but germinated…

Weekend plans

I have this long list of things to do in the garden swimming around in my head and I need to write it down somewhere...so this is…

Chicken Bryan

There's a fancy restaurant near us that serves a dish that I crave come summer grilling time. After doing a little searching …

Hot Sauce for Refried Beans

This recipe goes along with the refried beans and comes from one of Mollie Katzen's books, I think. I can't remember whi…

Tomato-Basil Biscuits

The basil keeps coming, even while I'm working in the kitchen freezing corn with my new toy (I'll post on that soon) and …

Tomato-Basil Tart

When summer heaps its blessings of real garden-fresh tomatoes and pungeant basil upon me, I find as many opportunities to use the…

Bruschetta

My daughter requests this as soon as tomatoes begin to ripen. When we start to tire of Pico de Gallo , we bring this to the table…