This delightful tomato recipe takes full advantage of the sharp, bright flavor of fresh raw garden grown tomatoes and freshly picked basil. This recipe is versatile, masquerading as a side dish or a main dish and holds its own against other summer favorites like potato salad and macaroni salad. It is elegant next to chicken, […]
Garlic Dill Herbed Cheese
Making homemade cheese isn’t hard at all. Once you get the hang of it, you can add all different spices and seasonings to create your own masterpiece! Here are the basics: Start by gently heating 1 gallon of milk to 55 degrees. My thermometer won’t sit on the side of my pot, […]
Fresh Homemade Creamy Dill Dip
Our dill herbs are going crazy lately – amazing yellow flowers, loads of delicious foliage. I love using dill in the kitchen – for pickles, seasoning in salads, and especially creamy dip for vegetables and crackers. Today’s Eating Garden Fresh recipe is from Love Love Thing and features an allergy-free version replacing eggs and milk […]
Spaghetti Squash Mac and Cheese Bites Recipe
If you’re like me and you grew spaghetti squash because it’s supposed to be awesome and delicious and healthy but how you HAVE spaghetti squash and you’re wondering exactly what you’re going to do with it, you are in luck. Today’s Eating Garden Fresh post is a clever and oh-so-awesome treat. I mean, who doesn’t […]
Fresh Tomatoes – Basil Tomato Salad
Tomatoes seem in overabundance in summer, gardens are over-run with them as the summer heat induces high yields. Tomatoes are considered a fruit botanically, but a vegetable in the kitchen. Either way, vine ripened tomatoes are mouthwatering and nutritious. Make good use of juicy vine ripened tomatoes them in this delicious summer tomato recipe. Ingredients […]
Herbed Peach Rosemary Preserves Canning How-To
Peaches! Is there any flavor more full of summer sunshine and good feelings than the freshly picked peach? This is a great recipe for canning herbed peaches to enhance the flavor of your jam or preserves. With the addition of rosemary – one of my favorite herbs – I don’t think you could get this […]
Green Beans With Lemon Garlic Sauce
If you are harvesting bushels of green beans from your garden like I am you’ll appreciate this delicious way to prepare and cook them. This preparation gives a unique cultural flavor to your green bean harvest or CSA box treasure trove. These are simply boiled or steamed a bit and dressed with a tarator sauce. This would […]
Garden Fresh – Raw Spinach Pesto Straight From Your Garden
This is one of those love it or hate it recipes. If you really love garlic, pasta, and basil, this recipe will make you crave more. It was developed originally as my attempt at Green Goddess Dressing. Failing miserably, I simply tossed it on pasta and served it up one night. I got rave reviews […]
Layered Baked Omelette Dinner Recipe
If you’re like me, your backyard flock of chickens is laying well, you are beginning to harvest the first of your summer produce, and you may be looking for creative ways to feed your family. This meatless meal relies on eggs as the primary protein source, but even without meat, you’ll find it filling and […]
Delicious Green Bean Salad With Citrus Dressing
The green beans are coming! And once they start trickling in they come in full force with bushels a day being harvested. We love to sautee our green beans in a dab of butter with some minced garlic but you can’t do that every day of the week all summer long. That’s why I adore […]
Rosemary Pepper Grilled Pork
Rosemary is absolutely one of my favorite herbs. So today’s Eating Garden Fresh guide is giving rosemary a top billing in this recipe. I love the combination of simple ingredients, simple cooking, and delicious flavor. You simple cannot beat it.
Piccalilli – Green Tomato Relish
Like so many of us with gardens, you are probably gazing at those tomatoes just waiting for them to turn red. Well wait no longer! Green tomatoes don’t have to sit on the vine, and you can do more than fry them. Enjoy this unique relish called Piccalilli, from Backyard Homestead Adventure. I never even knew […]
