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by Laurie Rockenbeck | Oct 24, 2011 | Cooking
Last year’s quince harvest was lame–a singular fruit that I think I forgot about in the depths of the fridge. In the linked post, I was bemoaning the lack of quince while still dealing with the remaining jars of “not quite jelly” from the 2009...
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by Laurie Rockenbeck | Oct 10, 2011 | Cooking, Uncategorized
Yesterday, the hubby and teen went off to geekgirlcon , leaving me at home with the younger child who wanted nothing to do with dinner planning. I was lazy enough that all I really wanted to do was stay home and finish the last couple of episodes of...
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by Laurie Rockenbeck | Sep 20, 2011 | Cooking, Uncategorized
Compared to fifty pounds of cucumbers, this singular colander of tomatillos did not seem like much of a project. Even after finding a recipe online that looked promising, and reading the ingredient list that would include eight cups of chopped onion, three cups of...
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by Laurie Rockenbeck | Sep 6, 2011 | Cooking, Uncategorized
I was at the produce section looking for bananas when I felt compelled to pick up a couple of pickling cucumbers the produce guy, P.J., had just put out. I rolled the cool bumpy veggies in my hand, thinking over the sagacity of getting into a canning project. P.J....
by Laurie Rockenbeck | Sep 1, 2011 | Cooking
I’m getting ready to make pickles, so I go through the pantry to see what I have left by way of jars. Sometimes, I’ll decide something is too old to keep and dump the contents just to have the jar. Today, I found just one jar of garlic dills remaining from...
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by Laurie Rockenbeck | Jul 27, 2011 | Cooking, Food, Uncategorized
It’s hard to not be excited about creating dinner from the garden. The poor weather we’ve been having has had the side-effect of creating a bounty of fresh greens in the garden. I cleaned the batch you see pictured and realized that there was going to be...
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