Category: Cooking

Apple Cake

We got inspired by the bake off and memories of my grandma’s apple cake. I found an old recipe that was very good, but not quite what I remembered. I made some adjustments and plan to use even more apple on top next time.

Salsa in October

    Such a weird year. We still have tomatoes slowly ripening the n the garden. We haven’t had measurable rain in forever, and today, MIDOCTOBER, it’s 80 degrees out.

    Anyways, we’re making more salsa. This was a 60% batch and p is adding about a quarter of a habanero pepper in the batch.

    6 cups of tomatoes (.6 batch) filled almost 6 jars

    Jelly

    Grape Jelly Day. We barely made a dent in the grape supply to get a full pot, so we’ll probably have at least another batch in the next few days.

    *EDIT- I went out and harvested more than another full batch.

    Still waiting for us AFTER the two baskets.

    We used the usual ball recipe but a low sugar pectin

    Salsa!

    Turned all those tomatoes into salsa today

    Following the recipe we definitely needed more jars- I also cooked down the skins and trimmed bits and strained them for paste.

    New recipes

    This week I made up a couple of new recipes to use up some CSA veggies.

    Patty pan soup

    The first I got no photos of- but it’s delicious. I roasted patty pan squash (4 parts) carrots (1 pt) potatoes (2 pt) with some onion, then stewed them with a broth, basil, garlic, paprika and chili flakes. Then I used the immersion blender. Great thick soup hot or cold.y

    “Lemony” Kale Pesto pasta

    The second recipe is also VERY good. I sautéed some garlic and chili flakes on olive oil then let kale and sorrel wilt in there. Then I put that, fresh basil, parmigiana, and frozen garlic in the food processor. It tastes really yummy and I’m going to put it on pasta. —- needs lots of olive oil for pasta