We’re going to give you the information you need to choose the right greenhouse option for you. We’ll talk about costs, types of greenhouses, location, and planning for operation.
Greenhouse Guide – What You Need to Know Before You Build
Local Food
Easy Horseradish Sauce with Fresh Horseradish Root
We’ll share how to make basic sauce, horseradish cream sauce and horseradish cocktail sauce with fresh horseradish root and common pantry ingredients. The kick of homemade sauce knocks the socks off of most store bought sauce!
My first foray into horseradish sauce happened as a result of conversation with my son’s piano teacher, Miss Betty. (Some of you may remember her from her rye bread and pickle recipes.)
Betty and her husband have a huge patch of horseradish, but this year her husband said he didn’t want to make homemade horseradish sauce because it was too much work. (They are getting up in years, so the digging and cleaning is becoming more of a chore.)
Never one to miss an opportunity to learn to try something new in the kitchen, I told her that we’d be happy to give her a hand.
…25+ Healthy Asparagus Recipes Plus 4 Ways to Store Asparagus
Spring asparagus is a wonderful blessing after a long winter. Those first tender stalks are absolutely delicious raw, straight out of the garden. If you have large home patch – or want to take advantage of the seasonal abundance in stores and farm markets – it’s great to have an assortment of asparagus recipes on hand and to know how to preserve asparagus for later use.
This post features over 25 healthy asparagus recipes, including soups, salads and main dishes, plus instructions on how to store asparagus and preserve it for later use.
…Preserving Apples – How to Make Applesauce, Apple Leather and Dried Apple Slices
“Hey, could you use some apples?”
“Sure, I’d love some.”
So started around two weeks (off and on) of preserving apples. There were (I would guess) around two to three bushels to start with, which we made into sauce, fruit leather, popsicles, and cinnamon/sugar dried apple slices.
…The Nourished Kitchen Cookbook Review
When we were running the family catering business, we often repeated the phrase, “The eyes eat first” – meaning that our food had to look good as well as taste good. “The Nourished Kitchen: Farm-to-Table recipes for the Traditional Foods Lifestyle” is a feast for the eyes as well as an inspiration to savor traditional recipes with a modern twist. I have the pleasure of receiving a review copy as we head into the perfect time to experiment with these farm to table options.
The Nourished Kitchen cookbook is written by Jennifer McGruther of www.nourishedkitchen.com, an award winning traditional foods website. Her years of managing a farmers market and teaching traditional food preparation shine through in this beautiful new book.
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