Apr
29
Click here to read all my posts on Mammoth Melting Sugar Snow Peas. This Saturday will mark the 3 week point since I planted my Mammoth Melting Sugar Snow Peas. We got some nice rain last weekend and we have been having temperatures in the mid 60s for highs with belowing freezing at night all …
Apr
29
Click here to read all my posts regarding this variety of pea. My Burpeeana Early peas continue to grow well. We had a lot of rain this past weekend. As you can see from the picture above the tenterils are really starting to grow now. It seems once they get a hold of something the …
Apr
29
Recently I discovered ramps at a local grocery store (Produce Station). They are also called wild leeks and can add an onion/garlic flavor to a dish. Click here to read my post on what ramps are. Ramps go excellent with chicken. Ingredients 1 whole fryer chicken (make sure to remove whatever is in the cavity, …
Apr
29
Have you ever been in a grocery store and came across an item that you had no idea what to do with? Well today hopefully I can cross one item off that list for you – the ramp or wild leek. So what is a ramp? It is from the onion family. It grows wild. …
Apr
28
Last year, my wife got to taste some Sungold tomatoes from a friend’s garden. One taste and she wanted us to grow them ourselves. So I bought a packet of seeds and started my plants indoors. We live in zone 5, so we can’t plant tomatoes until the end of May. Tomatoes do not handle …
Apr
28
When it comes to growing carrots there is one thing I am most concerned about - peeling. Do I have to peel the carrots and if the answer is yes, are they big enough?. Last year I grew some carrots that need to be peeled, but the problem was they weren’t very big so peeling was …
Apr
27
While searching the produce section of my local Whole Foods market, I am saw some samples of a tangerine called a Ojai Pixie available to try. The sample won me over so I bought a 2 lb pound bag. The Ojai Pixie has a lot of great qualities. It is completely seedless. It is very …
Apr
26
This is a recipe review, which means this is a recipe that I did not personally come up with, but that I tried out and am giving my opinion on how the recipe turned out. For legal reasons I cannot post these recipes, but I can tell you where you can get them yourself. If …
Apr
25
Grass fed products have been all the talk in the food industry in recent years. At first I didn’t really buy into. I thought why would it matter what the cow ate. Well when I had Grass Point Farms Mild Cheddar Cheese for the first time, I discovered why it matters. Grass Point Farms (out …
Apr
25
This is a recipe review, which means this is a recipe that I did not personally come up with, but that I tried out and am giving my opinion on how the recipe turned out. For legal reasons I cannot post these recipes, but I can tell you where you can get them yourself. I …
Welcome to my blog! My name is Eric. I live in Saline, Michigan with my wife (Donna) and two daughters, Hannah (3 1/2) and Autumn (1). I started this blog in October 2009 to share my culinary experiences from making my own food from scratch to what I find at farmer's markets and grocery stores.
