The Yellow Apron

Like with the sweet potatoes , I patiently waited for Roma tomatoes to hit a price that made it worth canning them myself.  Smart & Fina...

I didn't learn my lesson from the cherries and bought plums the next week.  Only five pounds this time, and way fewer pits to remove.  T...

It's the last of the green onion pesto !!!  That took a full year to use.  I promise not to do that to myself again. I took this idea fr...

I bought seven pounds of cherries when they were $3 per pound.  I attempted to make seven pints of canned cherries, but two didn't seal....

While I'm waiting for my tomatoes to ripen, other things are going in salads. As a main course salad, anything grain-based is more of a ...

I got out the grill for the first time this year.  Oof, it needed a cleaning. I did a recipe for keftas way-way back in the early days of t...

I'm pretty impressed by this summer's garden so far.  Not everything has been an instant home run, but there have been fewer complet...

I wanted to do something non-Hispanic with pintos, since I'd already had a "Mexican" meal that week.  I considered the bean pâ...

I finally gave up on the last two broccoli about a month ago.  I could have gotten another small harvest out of them, but they were starting...

I really wanted to try my two largest home-grown turnips.  They were next to each other, and weren't going to get any bigger from being ...