Monthly Archives: May 2011

Boysenberries growing — In January 2010, I planted, on the advice of my nursery-man, four little sticks. In the intervening year and a half, I’ve learned a reasonable amount about said little sticks, and I’m going to share it now. (: I am pretty sure that ‘long around September I’m going to have […]

Things I’ve Learned About Boysenberries

30 May, 2011 in Canning and Preserving / Garden / Recipes tagged berries / boysenberries / canning / fruit / Garden / harvest / jam / lessons learned / vegetarian by Leanne

One of the major challenges of smoking pork is that the well-known applications tend to take time. In the case of ribs or shoulder, it’s time on the grill; bacon, it’s a week in a brine. So I share an approach which I successfully created yesterday. Because of the title, […]

Peach-Smoked Pork Chops

29 May, 2011 in Barbecue / Recipes tagged pork by Mark

Everyone should be able to make basic spaghetti sauce. Everyone. And there’s no excuse for it to not be fabulous, when it’s really easy to do. This is what I do; feel free to play with it, ’cause it takes just fine to adaptation. Red Sauce 2 32-oz cans crushed […]

[Basics] Red Sauce

28 May, 2011 in Basics / Recipes tagged pasta sauce / red sauce / sausage / spaghetti / tomatoes by Leanne

Boysenberries, blueberries, strawberries

Offered without further comment: today’s post-rain harvest

17 May, 2011 in Garden tagged blueberries / boysenberries / fruit / Garden / harvest / strawberries by Leanne

No pictures. I know, I know. I ATE IT ALL, okay? ^_^ This is a great thing to do with leftover ricotta, which I often have, and then dither on what I should do with it. No dithering here! If you want to be luxurious, add a slice of prosciutto […]

Roasted Tomato Panini

12 May, 2011 in Improv / Recipes tagged ricotta / sandwich / tomatoes / vegetables / vegetarian by Leanne

If you don’t do a lot of medieval cuisine, you’ve probably never heard of poudre fort and poudre douce — literally, strong powder and sweet powder. I was first introduced to the concept when I was doing SCA regularly, via a nifty little pair of books called Take A Thousand […]

Poudre Douce and Poudre Fort

2 May, 2011 in Books / Recipes tagged medieval cuisine / spice blend / spices by Leanne

Auntie Pasto

Don't shoot the food!