Monthly Archives: July 2010

Fallbrook Sunrise Jam — Along about yesterday, my good buddy Kristina came over with a big pile of white peaches from her yard. Kristina lives in Fallbrook, and she and her family have this fabulous yard full of citrus trees, avocados, and stone fruit. Every once in a while, she asks me if I […]

Sweet Peachy Business

22 Jul, 2010 in Canning and Preserving / Improv / Recipes tagged fruit / Improv / jam / peaches by Leanne

Nearly 11 pounds of green tomatoes — I mentioned that my garden exploded. What I didn’t mention was the ugly batch of blossom-end rot that came along with it. /: It seems that especially the hybrid tomatoes are bearing so heavily that they can’t get enough calcium, even with supplementing and with plenty of water. My nursery […]

Saving the Green Tomato

22 Jul, 2010 in Canning and Preserving / Improv / Recipes tagged green tomatoes / Improv / spaghetti sauce / tomatoes / vegetarian by Leanne

Melon #2 — For reals. (: This is what happens when you take a three-and-a-half-day vacation. So with all that growth, there was lots of picking that needed doing. And lots of pruning. We’ll get to that next post …

So I went away, and my garden exploded.

22 Jul, 2010 in Garden tagged Garden / picspam by Leanne

Hi all! Just want to let you know that Auntie Pasto will be on a week-and-a-half hiatus, due to ComicCon and other life stuff that involves the dreaded (ha) “no internet access”. Should return the first week in August. Thanks for your patience!

Brief Hiatus

22 Jul, 2010 in Uncategorized tagged hiatus by Leanne

July 13 Harvest Photo 2010 — I feel so proud to be able to post this, finally. (: This is what I harvested today! Check it out! Four fairytale eggplants, aren’t they cute? One white eggplant, six black pearl cherry tomatoes, three zucchini, a couple of pattypan squash, a “sweet pepper Mohawk!”*, a lemon cucumber (actually […]

Today’s Harvest

13 Jul, 2010 in Garden tagged Garden / harvest by Leanne

It would probably make more sense to do my CSA posts on the day when I actually get the box. Unfortunately, that day is also RPG night, so I’m usually pretty busy, and then don’t get to it over the weekend. Sorry ’bout that! Here’s the CSA box for this […]

This week’s CSA

13 Jul, 2010 in CSA Adventures tagged csa by Leanne

With all that food coming from the CSA, we’re starting to have a bounty of goodness over here. Which is great — but things need to be eaten or otherwise dealt with. So this is what I did this evening: These are bread-and-butter zucchini pickles from Linda Ziedrich‘s The Joy […]

How I Spent My Summer Evening

8 Jul, 2010 in Canning and Preserving tagged pickles / zucchini by Leanne

Bread-and-Butter Zucchini — This week’s box contained the following: Kristina got the chard and beets and some of the rest of the other food. We used the oranges, carrots, and radishes as part of the 4th of July party — orange wedges and a veggie tray that also included cherry tomatoes, mushrooms, and […]

What I did with my CSA box this week

8 Jul, 2010 in CSA Adventures tagged csa by Leanne

General verdict: tasty! Specific verdict: Uncle Pasto and I need a bit more learning on how to control a smoker fire. No no no — nothing bad happened. We were using the charcoal from the bottom of the bag, and it seems the smaller pieces burn hotter than the larger […]

As promised, a brisket update

8 Jul, 2010 in Improv / Recipes tagged brisket / caldillo / leftovers / stew by Leanne

Today’s post is brought to you by the inimitable W. Park Kerr and Norma Kerr, the founders of the El Paso Chile Company, and their book, The El Paso Chile Company Texas Border Cookbook, is a book I cannot live without. Now, it’s Texan, and the portions reflect the same. […]

Kitchen Lit: Books I Can’t Live Without #1 — Texas ...

3 Jul, 2010 in Books tagged book review / books I can't live without / cookbooks by Leanne

Auntie Pasto

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