Lacto-fermented hot sauce with nasturtiums, two ways! A spicy red batch with flowers & a milder green batch with leaves results in sauces with herbal flair. The gardening season is pretty much over now. Sure, there will be some cabbages,…
Set aside a little time now, and can up some apple pie filling for amazingly fast, future desserts. Recipe for a perfect pastry crust included! I think my husband resolved to make me his wife the first time I made…
Super cheesy and studded with green chiles, this cheddar chile bread is perfect complement to a roast chicken or Southwest inspired soup. Bread was a hard one for me, y’all. I mean, I REALLY struggled to make a good loaf…
Try this sweet recipe with the immunity enhancing elderberry for kids and adults alike. These elderberry lollipops are delicious and the perfect thing for a dry, hot throat, and hoarse cough. I am going to start this post by admitting…
Use the bounty of your tomato harvest to make some delicious slow cooker homemade ketchup that even the kiddos will love! Perhaps, your kids are like mine – and everything is better with ketchup. Perhaps it is just an unquestionable…
Just be prepared to make more than one batch of this perfect canned salsa! You won’t want to ever be without a few jars in the pantry! The first thing that I ever learned to can, and can well, was…
Peach-y, caramel-y, vanilla-y, this slow cooker peach butter is so good. The fact that it is an incredibly easy canning recipe too can be our little secret! Sometimes you make something so incredibly good that you are almost ashamed to…
The best of summer and berry season, this foraged berry sorbet is delightfully yummy, rich in musky berries and offset with bright notes of lemon verbena! Berries… The wild berries have arrived! Himalayan blackberries, huckleberries, Oregon grapes and the ever…
Cherry Chipotle BBQ Sauce is sweet, smoky and satisfyingly spicy. Created with tart pie cherries, this bbq sauce is best paired with pork! To tell you the truth I have never been good at that thing called balance. Especially during…
Blueberry Lavender Jam combines some of the best flavors and scents of summer, to be preserved and revisited throughout the year. Here is an embarrassing story… When I was about four years old I politely declined a peanut butter and…
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Devon
