Simply making your house your home
Cabbage adds a hearty flavour to a meal. It can be eaten raw in a coleslaw or cooked. I like to add it to my soups and sometimes I cook it in a casserole with some butter and salt and pepper for a side dish. And I enjoy growing it… Read more“Cabbage”
We have a steady supply of fresh tomatoes for a few weeks at the end of each summer, usually more than we can eat, so I freeze them as they ripen to use throughout the year. How to freeze tomatoes How to use frozen tomatoes I use the tomatoes throughout… Read more“Tomatoes – Storing”
We are halfway through summer already! I hope you have had some time to enjoy it! Here on Prince Edward Island, Canada we have been having a beautiful sunny summer. The hot summer days of July were most certainly filled with time spent outdoors with family and friends. Some of… Read more“Summer Fun in the Sun”
With a mild rhubarb taste, this flavourful coffee cake made from garden fresh rhubarb is a real treat after a long winter. Serves 10. INGREDIENTS: Cake 1 cup Milk (or lactose-free milk) 1 tbsp Lemon juice 1 tsp Vanilla 1 ½ cups Brown sugar 2/3 cup … Read more“Rhubarb Streusel Coffee Cake”
I plant a variety of zucchini in my garden and by the end of each summer I have an abundance of this beautiful fruit. That’s right. Although treated as a vegetable, it is a fruit. Planting Plant seeds outside after the last frost or start them indoors two weeks before… Read more“Zucchini”
I have kept the perennial section of my garden very simple with only four items – asparagus, blueberries, currants and rhubarb. With very little know-how and maintenance I have these nutritious seasonal treats come back year after year. The main thing is to keep the weeds under control. Mulch will… Read more“The Perennial Garden”
