There are a lot of ways to prepare fish, but poaching is the most foolproof method and is ridiculously delicious. Poaching the fish keeps it from becoming too dry, helps it cook more evenly and adds flavor. In this recipe, I show you how to make a wonderful butter, white wine, and parmesan trout. This…
Category: Food/Wine (and preserving)
Perfect Homemade Pizza Fast
I bet we eat homemade pizza once a week. You can take basically anything from the fridge and make a pizza. Pizza is fast, easy and cheap to make. First, here is the pizza crust recipe I use. It takes 15 minutes once you throw everything into the bowl, so you don’t have to plan…
Easy and Fast Cheddar Garlic Biscuits
You know those recipes that you have in your back pocket that you can pull out in a pinch with no need to write it down? This is one of mine. I have been making this for decades, so I don’t know where the original recipe came from or whether I have changed it, but…
Canning Cranberry Sauce
I love cranberry sauce and I do wonder why we only partake at Thanksgiving! We always end up wasting the rest of the can or what I make fresh. Can one preserve cranberry sauce, I wondered? A peek into my old canning book confirmed that I can indeed can can cranberries! Cranberries are in season…
Grain Mills and Homemade Bread
The yeasty, earthy smell of bread wafts through the house. The sourdough rye will be perfect to sop up the soup I am making. A little butter on the still-warm bread is worth every step of breadmaking. A small glass of cold wine pulls it all together. We eat outdoors while watching the swallows swoop…
Easy, Crispy, “Fried” Vegetables
Crispy, delicious eggplant slices on top of spaghetti with a rich tomato sauce. Fried pickles with ranch and a cold beer on a hot summer day. Fried zucchini and mushrooms are another favorite that take me back to Grandma’s house. Swinging my feet at her dining room table waiting for a plate of fried mushrooms,…
Spring Pea Soup with Garlic Croutons and Rhubarb Custard (two super fast and easy recipes!)
We are in the peas! As we wind down rhubarb and pea season, I made a few great recipes for you to try. Spring Pea Soup This soup came together fast and was so creamy and delicious. Pour a few tablespoons of olive oil into a soup pan and heat over medium. Add a chopped…
Putting Up Peas
Things got more efficient after we began using a paring knife to slice down the seam of the pods to free the spring peas. “Everyone is getting a scheduled C-section!” Doug declared. It certainly made us faster as we shelled thirty-seven pounds of peas. Is it worth it? Hail destroyed the majority of our peas…
Homemade Linguine
The more you eat homemade food, the less you like store-bought, and that’s the truth! The hard stuff doesn’t even come close to the delicious, chewy texture of homemade pasta and it just couldn’t be any easier to make. In a bowl combine: 3 stirred up farm fresh eggs from happy chickens (now, folks, that…
10 Minute Pasta Sauce
The shelves are still empty. Yes, at the store, but I am talking about my own pantry. I slacked the last two years canning and it shows! Not a tomato jar in sight. The pasta sauces at the store are sub-par, in my opinion, and my own are gone. This pasta sauce is fast and…
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