This is my last sweet potato post from my garden this season. That makes me sad, but pleased that I have had enough to get me this far. For a while we had access to locally-grown, grass-fed beef. During that period, I used to make a lot of beef stews. One that I grew particularly…
Category: Tomatoes
Pasta Sauce with Dried Mushrooms and Red Wine
I still have a freezer full of basic tomato sauce just waiting to be played with and added to. I wanted to make a full-bodied sauce, so I decided to add some of my dried mushrooms and red wine. It came out a little bitter, but adding a little sugar did the trick and it became luxurious….
Couscous with Tomatoes and Onions
Thanks to Yotam Ottolenghi, I now have another dish I will be making over and over again. A couscous comfort food, a version of couscous that is very reminiscent of Persian rice with a nice tadig crust. The cooking method that adds the crust add that nice crisp texture that is often lacking in couscous…
Food Challenge – Jerusalem Artichokes, Broccoli & Roasted Tomato Linguine
Here is the second dish from Farmer Kim’s food challenge – Jerusalem Artichokes, Broccoli & Roasted Tomato Linguine. Jerusalem artichokes are really good roasted, but I wanted to try pan searing them. I thought that just Jerusalem artichokes and pasta would be boring. So, I went out to the garden where there were some late…
Turkey Bacon & Tomato Pasta
I just have to share this picture I took while I was out for my before-train walk this morning. It was a foggy morning, and the sun was just starting to break through as I walked along the Christina River. This is one of my favorite spots along the river, a little enclave with this…
Turkey Bolognese – Thanksgiving Leftovers #3
Take leftover turkey, a bunch of veggies, and mix it into my homemade spaghetti sauce and you get a totally new meal – Turkey Bolognese. It is a shame to call this a “leftover” meal, since I would almost make the turkey just to be able to make this! It is a shame I made…
Fresh Lima Beans with Roasted Tomatoes and Artichokes
I stopped at the farm market the other day to pick up some broccoli (Cam is demanding it every day right now) and what did they have at the checkout? Shelled fresh lima beans! Yay! I immediately started tasting Never Say Never Again Lima Beans in my mind. So, into my cart they went. I had…
Guy Fieri’s Tijuana Kitchen Rice
My son loves Mexican rice. No, he LOVES Mexican rice. I happen grow the ingredients that make Mexican rice Mexican rice – tomatoes and jalapenos. I really enjoy cooking Guy Fieri recipes, they are always full of flavor. So…this recipe caught my eye as a version of Mexican rice that used veggies from my garden…
Tomato Confit
My friend Marian was over for dinner the other night; she saw all my tomatoes and suggested I make tomato confit. Okay, so I had never had tomato confit. So she told me how to make it and that I would then want to spread it on anything and everything. She was right! Just…
Zucchini, Tomato & Eggs: Pan-cooked and Slow-cooker methods
I love the recipe for pan-cooked zucchini & tomatoes with eggs in Martha Rose Shulman’s Mediterranean Harvest cookbook. It is a ratatouille-like dish, to which eggs are placed on top and then baked. I can’t describe how good this tastes! Here I have done 2 versions of it, one fairly close to her recipe, using summer…
Andrea's Garden Cooking 