This is one of my favorite dishes to make. I have been cooking up pots of chili about every other week this fall, and I wish that I could make more, and I wouldn’t run out of chiles. One day, I even aspire to making my own chili powder, but that is for another time….
Category: Autumn
Late Fall Yard View
Thanksgiving is this week, and although it is my favorite holiday, I haven’t been thinking too much about any special dishes. Except for the turkey, which is always challenging since I only cook one once a year. I’m trying a new technique of course, so we’ll see. For whatever reason, Thanksgiving for me, has become…
Tomato Sauce
This picture was taken on August 24, one of my bigger harvest days through the growing season. It is so hot in August that I have developed this procedure to allow me to store and process all of the tomatoes I grow. We use a lot of tomatoes through the year for marinara sauce, chili,…
Vote with Your Fork
Election Day was last week, on November 6. And, this makes me feel very tiny. In a country of millions of people, how can it be that my choices that I make do any good for myself and my community. I did vote by mail and one way or the other, submitted a ballot that…
Green Beans
I’ve been thinking about this post for a few weeks now as my beans are in full production. I have to say that this crop has been very satisfying for me to grow, more that anything in the last few years. It is a combination of many factors that I will write about here. They…
Organic Fertilizers
This picture is the reason that I keep thinking about this post. In the fall I see these piles of white powder along the roadside in the orchards. I think that this is potassium sulfate, but I am not really sure. And, once I did a little research, I realized that I don’t know much…
Organic Pest Control
I have been thinking about writing this for a while. This post is a rough first draft of what I imagine will be a series of me trying to explain “What organic growing really is” or at least what I think this should mean to the average eater. And, at this moment, it has become…
Dried Out – More Preservation
As the summer bounty continues to come in, dehydration is one of the best passive preservation techniques. It is easy and, can I say it again, easy. I love, love, love it. I do have a dehydrator, which I use all the time, but leaving things out to air dry works well for certain items,…
Old Fashioned Preservation
I often think about living in a different era, and when it comes to food this usually leads me to thinking about not having electricity. Refrigerators and freezers have only been around, in there modern state, for much less than 100 years, and prior to this wonderful invention, people had to find ways to keep…
Eating What You Can Harvest
One of my goals for the past few years has been to grow and eat my own food. A huge disclaimer, “I am no where near this, but I continue to work at it.” This is one of those things in life, that will take years of optimization. And, because I was not taught how…