By Amanda Rose | Summer Squash
Zucchini pancakes are a great meal for company or any time you need a special breakfast. They are quick, tasty, and make great use of over-grown zucchini. You can freeze your zucchini in advance and have the grated zucchini available all year round. You can freeze the pancakes themselves, as I discuss below. We use […]
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By Amanda Rose | Natural Home
No one likes to scrub a sticky pan. Heaven forbid you should burn your food to the pan — you may end up with seven rounds and three days of scrubbing. Before you pour too much elbow grease into your burned-on nasty pan, fill it with water, add a tablespoon or two of baking soda, […]
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By Amanda Rose | Tips
Unless you are cutting herbs fresh out of your kitchen herb garden, you have to buy them and store them. It doesn’t take many bags of delicate herbs crushed and soggy in the bottom of your produce drawer to realize you need a better solution. Herbs will stay fresher if their stems are placed in […]
Continue readingBy Amanda Rose | Elderberry
With our focus on building our immune systems this flu season, elderberry is an important tool. It can help prevent getting the flu or perhaps can help reduce our symptoms. In our own area we can actually harvest wild elderberries and make syrup that we freeze for the winter. It is that syrup we use […]
Continue readingBy Amanda Rose | Garlic
On occasion, we luck into a case of garlic at fire sale prices at a fruit stand. If the cloves are full and healthy, we buy it and run. However, there is no reasonable way to use an entire case of garlic in regular cooking without losing some to spoilage. We opt to freeze a […]
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By Amanda Rose | Fun
The blast-from-the-past Pollan Painting series continues with he release of Michael Pollan’s new book
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