Sweet Potatoes: One of the Healthiest Foods We definitely love sweet potatoes! First of all, growing sweet potatoes is easy. Once established, they are a maintenance free plants. Second, they are delicious and one of the healthiest food you can eat. Once they are cooked, a medium sized sweet potato (or half a cup, cooked)… Read More
How Do You Preserve Herbs? That is the second most common question I get at our weekly farmers market stand. The first question I get about herbs is how to use fresh herbs. Luckily, I’ve written a blog post about the many ways to use fresh herbs. So, let’s focus on how to preserve them.… Read More
Wine Jelly I’ve seen recipes for wine jellies in several canning recipe books all summer long. Why make jelly out of wine? Why not! It’s way simpler than making grape jelly. Plus, it tastes like wine 🙂 In order to make traditional jellies, you have to cook down the fruit, then pass it through a… Read More
Preserving and Canning Book Review Whenever the harvest starts rolling in, I bury myself in cookbooks. Every year I seek out new ways to cook and preserve our garden’s bounty. Sure, there are the staples like my pickled jalapenos or small batch refrigerator pickles I make every year. Nonetheless, I strive to make a few… Read More
Yard Long Beans This year while searching for a heat tolerant successor to plant after the potatoes were harvested, I discovered a gem. Yard long beans (aka: asparagus beans, Chinese long beans, snake beans) are a subspecies of cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) making them siblings of the familiar southern staple blackeyed peas. The major difference being… Read More