Grilled Baba Ghannouj
This is where I come clean. I am NOT a fan of eggplant. I’m not. Honestly. I never have been. For me, more often than not, eggplant was always overcooked, mushy, and watery, and left little to be desired on either the flavor, or the texture front. Until...
Beeswax: Solar Wax Melter
One of the byproducts of harvesting honey is beeswax. A couple of weeks ago we took the last of our honey for the season from our hives. Although most of the frames will be reused for another year, a couple of frames were damaged during the extraction, and we also...
Whole Wheat Pita Bread
Pita is a Middle Eastern flat bread that is not only easy to make, but also versatile. Truly fresh pita though can be difficult to find, as pita bread is never as good as when it first comes fresh from the oven. Most pita bread sold in local markets, unless it is...
The Kitchen Garden: A Plethora of Purple
In the kitchen garden this morning it was clear that we had a prominent color theme emerging in the harvest baskets. Purple…a plethora of purple! Until now, we hadn’t really paid all that much attention to how many different purple varieties of vegetables...
A Late Summer Honey Harvest
Although we primarily keep bees for pollination, we’d be lying if we didn’t admit that at some point we also hoped to harvest at least some honey. Last year, as the colonies were building up, we left the honey stores with the bees. We’ve had a smackeral or two of...
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