Monthly Archives: July 2010

Pickling, Preserving, and Dehydrating

I’ve been busy in the kitchen. In the past few days I’ve made dill pickles, heirloom tomato salsa, summer squash relish, and rosemary rhubarb preserves. I also dehydrated tomatoes and yellow squash, and made apple sauce. I used this recipe … Continue reading

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Today’s Harvest

The garden keeps delivering. This is what I picked this morning: It seems early for winter squash but then again everything is early this year. Ripe tomatoes and yellow beans: I picked the rest of the rhubarb and some rosemary … Continue reading

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Embanata, the Sicilian Tradition

My Nonna used to make us a great Sicilian-style stuffed bread called Embanata. Throughout my childhood, I always looked forward to going to their house mainly to chow down on this classic recipe (and for the great family time of … Continue reading

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