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Guest Post: Grammee’s Sauerkraut
SavoryEditor’s note: Today’s post is from my sweet friend and former college roommate Marie who blogs about a little bit of everything at Life Beyond Silicon. She’s a wicked smart engineer and lives in the Silicon Valley with her husband and ...
How To Blanch Tomatoes
How To, Preserving, Savory, canning, tomatoesIn this tutorial, you’ll learn how to blanch tomatoes. Blanching tomatoes loosens their skin for easy peeling so you can can or freeze them for the future! Is your garden bursting with tomatoes? Mine seemed to get a slow start, but now...
How to Can Tomatoes
How To, Preserving, Savory, canning, tomatoesIn this tutorial, you’ll learn how to can tomatoes from your garden to preserve them. This guide explains both the tools and technique for home canning. Once you have blanched your tomatoes, now is the time to can them. Canning doesn’t r...
How to De-Pit an Avocado
How To, Savory, tutorialI learned this handy-dandy trick somewhere along the path and it has made getting the pit out of the avocado so much easier. Split avocado lengthwise and pull apart. With a sharp knife, confidently thwack the pit right in the middle. (I ...
How To Make Easy Cranberry Relish
How To, Other Desserts, Savory, Christmas, ThanksgivingAbout 15 minutes and a food processor is all you need to serve this bright, tangy, sweet but not too sweet easy cranberry relish this holiday season! This cranberry relish has been a staple at my family’s Thanksgiving table for as long a...
How To Make Pizza on the Grill
Bread, Savory, dinner, grill, pizzaLearn how to make pizza on the grill for a close replication of wood fired pizza right at home. Plus, you don’t have to turn on the oven! I love making pizza on the grill* in the summer. Homemade pizza is one of my favorite things, every...
How to make Popcorn on the Stove top
Savory, easy, popcorn, snack, tutorialStep-by-step tutorial about how to make popcorn on the stove rather than in the microwave. Cheaper than buying microwave popcorn! When I was growing up, almost every time we came to visit, my grandpa would pop up a whole boatload of popc...
How To Make Walnut Basil Pesto
How To, SavoryLearn how to make walnut basil pesto in mere minutes in your food processor. It’s perfect on pasta, pizza, and just on a slice of toast! Oh my good grief, this pesto is good. I made it for the first time a few years ago and this year I ...
Savory Sunday-Grilled Pizza with Corn Pesto Sauce
Savory, pizzaI am coming into fall kicking and screaming. The weather here finally snapped. it seemed like just a week ago it was still 80+ degrees outside and the cooling down to just sweatshirt weather at night. Now I am waking up huddled beneat...
Soft Italian Bread and Walnut Pesto
Bread, Savory, pesto, Peter Reinhart, savory, walnutOh my good grief, this pesto is good. I made it for the first time last year and this year I planted six basil plants to ensure that I would have enough basil to make this stuff by the bucketful. It is great on pasta and really good sl...
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Trail Food Tip: Write Your Recipe On The Bag
Savory, tips and tricks, trail foodA quick backpacking tip: write your recipe in Sharpie on the outside of the baggie that stores your ingredients. That way you don’t have to rely on your memory in the woods and you don’t have to pack any paper....
Wicked Easy Garlic Toast
Savory, easy, garlic, toastOk, this is too too easy. However, there is nothing like garlic bread to jazz up your weeknight dinner. Simply take some bread, any bread will do (but I like a nice crusty bread), and toast it. Then rub the warm toast with a peeled...