Archive for the 'Food Preservation' Category

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Great Garlic!

In February of 2008 (that’s about 15 months ago!) I decided to plant garlic. Instead of taking the traditional route, where I’d go buy seed, or starter cloves from the garden store, I decided to go to the local co-op, and just buy some organic garlic and break up the cloves myself. Garlic from the [...]

Posted by Les on July 23rd, 2009 under Cooking Fresh, Food Preservation, Harvest & Succession Planting | Comment now »

The First Pickles of 2009…

Today, in preparation for next Saturday’s Block Sale, I canned kosher dill pickles, and since the canner was hot, I made 5 quarts of pickled veggie mix, too – something of a California Mix. Now, I know they sell that “California Mix” in the stores, but it is, quite frankly, nasty. But, my version is [...]

Posted by Les on July 4th, 2009 under Food Preservation | 3 Comments »

The First Harvest…

You all know how much I am in love with tomatoes. In reality, I think of tomatoes as the centerpoint of my garden patch, and everything else as secondary to them. As much as I love the herbs, and flowers and lovely lettuces, they are the all accessories to the tomatoes.
Here in the Pacific [...]

Posted by Les on August 23rd, 2007 under Cooking Fresh, Food Preservation, Harvest & Succession Planting | Comment now »

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