Culinary Encounters

  This simple and appropriately colored dish is a refreshing and somewhat healthy snack or dessert. By the way, happy Memorial Day to ever...

   No real recipe here, just an epiphany. We were making smores the other night and I thought peanut butter cups instead of plain chocolate...

You haven't tasted pizza until you've tasted a real Margherita pizza. Wow .... ".... the classic story of the pizza Margheri...

  Not much to say about this item except that it FREAKIN ROCKS and we are going to make more next year. This is good stuff. This may be my ...

  A week or so ago I posted a couple of updates about a marathon canning session due to some free produce we acquired. Twenty four pints of...

  The continuing saga of the canning marathon. We canned twenty three quarts of bread and butter pickles. We used the Ball Blue Book recipe...

Roasted red peppers are another handy preparation to have around. We harvested these from the bucket garden and Mommasan had the great idea...

  This is a pretty versatile preparation. I was driven to try this because we had some eggplant lying around getting soft and roasting it o...

This is a family recipe that I'll wager only family members will appreciate. It isn't a 15 generation Italian recipe that came to A...

The pepper plants are still cranking. As a matter of fact, there are probably enough peppers ready to pick for another batch by now. Green ...

  A friend called on a Sunday afternoon around 2pm and said he had peaches for me and that they were a little on the ripe side and would ne...

  A good friend of mine got me this Chinese 5 Color Hot Pepper plant. These are very beautiful ornamental hot pepper plants. The fruit is e...

This started out as more of an experiment than anything because of the shear number of hot peppers my plants are producing. I was afraid t...

I threw some of my favorite things into a blender and this came out. WOW! This was very tasty and refreshing. Awesome Strawberry Daiquiri ...

  The continuing saga of trying to find ways to use up all the zuchini and squash the summer months provide. We used Mom's regular past...

  Fried green tomatoes may be food related to usage of all those green tomatoes that will go to waste if not eaten at the end of the growin...

  Around our home anything that remotely resembles the recipe below is called Ratatouille. Maybe we're wrong, but one thing is for sure...

  I recently came across an interesting iced tea variant that sounded very refreshing, so armed with Mom's normal iced tea knowledge a...

    Or as we often see it here in the states, Tabouli. This dish absolutely screams spring and summer. I wasn't real familiar with this ...

  Fresh basil and warm weather bring grilling and pesto to mind , so grilling a Mediterranean pizza isn't that far of a stretch. I haven...