We are always a little sad to take down the tomato and pepper plants each autumn.
Cucumber Salad with Tomato, Bell Pepper, and Spicy Thai Lime Vinaigrette
July 28, 2010 By 10 Comments
Juicy cucumbers are one of my favorite summer vegetables, and I like to slice one up and eat it with a bit of salt for an afternoon snack, but using them as a base for salads is my favorite way to eat them. We’ve been on a cucumber salad binge lately, trying different vegetable combinations [...]
Thai Basil Chicken (Kai Kraphao)
September 22, 2009 By 9 Comments
This dish is the main reason we grow Thai basil in our herb garden. We’ve grown many kinds of basil over the years and seem to have settled into a routine of Genovese, Lemon (Sweet Dani or similar), and Thai (Sweet Thai or Queen of Siam) basil because they cover the spectrum of our uses. [...]
The Daring Cooks Make Vegan Dosas
September 14, 2009 By 10 Comments
For the Daring Cooks September challenge, we made vegan dosas adapted from the reFresh cookbook by Ruth Tal. Fresh is a popular chain of vegetarian/vegan restaurants in Toronto, Canada with three published cookbooks teaching how to cook Fresh food at home. Our host Debyi of Healthy Vegan Kitchen chose this fun challenge for us, and [...]
Weekend Gardening: Peppers
August 9, 2009 By 1 Comment
Peppers, both hot and sweet, are a favorite for our summer garden and indoors in the winter, and this year we are growing more types than we ever have before, though we’ve had trouble with production. The cold wet spring that carried through into early June affected some of our plants, and some of the [...]
Jalapeno Cheddar Cornbread
March 19, 2009 By 9 Comments
Cornbread is a staple of Southern cooking, and it made regular appearances at our family table when I was growing up. I don’t remember my mother ever diverting from her standard cornbread recipe; it was always the same warm, comforting bread we enjoyed with beans and other foods. Last week I planned to make a [...]
Jalapeno Jelly
October 7, 2008 By 15 Comments
The jalapeño plant is holding its own in a jungle of grape tomatoes, bell peppers, and tomatillos. Even caged, the plants around it spread so much they lay over it, and most of the time I have to go under the deck to reach the spicy little gems. The plant is about three feet tall [...]
Roasted Tomatillo Jalapeno Salsa with Avocado
September 30, 2008 By 12 Comments
Creamy with a kick is what comes to mind when I dip tortillas or lavash into this salsa. The September Daring Bakers challenge required the members to make both lavash and a dip or other condiment to serve with it, and considering our abundance of tomatillos and jalapeños coupled with my utter devotion to avocados, [...]
San Marzano Sauce with Peppers
September 5, 2008 By 8 Comments
A few days before we left for vacation, I picked five pounds of San Marzano tomatoes and a dozen bell peppers from our garden and had to do something with them fast. I had planned all along to turn those beautiful tomatoes into sauce, but now that the task was at hand and I only [...]
Slow Cooker Black Bean Soup with Five Peppers and Ham
May 11, 2008 By 10 Comments
It’s May and I want to dream about picnics and cooking outdoors. We thought summer was well on it’s way when temperatures climbed into the 80s a couple weeks ago, then we were startled with the cold front that came through yesterday bringing lots of rain and dropping temperatures back into the 40s. Everything is [...]
