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This morning I wanted to make something a bit different for breakfast. We had some good Italian sausage left over from our pizza making the day before, along with fresh mushrooms, mozzarella cheese and some other pizza toppings. I’ve got dough in the refrigerator, …
No food, other than asparagus, says ‘spring’ to me quite like strawberries. There is nothing like the sight and smell of a basket of beautiful, bright, red, ripe strawberries. I avoid buying them out of season, so when strawberry season comes around, we take full …
One of last summer’s ‘Terra Incognitas’ was making strawberry jam. My strawberry plants had finally hit their stride and I had more strawberries than we could eat – and we can eat a lot of strawberries. I decided to try making jam. I started looking …
Every year we grow a modest vegetable garden. Some years are good – others not so good. A few years ago we had a ‘Good Tomato Year’. That year we had loads of tomatoes for eating, but also for chili, pizza and spaghetti sauce, as …