How to Make Basic Marinara Sauce
Simple recipe for making homemade marinara sauce from scratch using fresh tomatoes.
How to Peel and Seed Fresh Tomatoes
A simple and quick method for easy peeling of fresh tomatoes.
Quick Mid-Summer Garden Update
This is 2 day’s haul from the garden last week. In the photo are 4 different types of tomatoes, lemon cucumbers, an eggplant, a zucchini, and a cucumber. Was the no-dig method successful? Yes, I think so. Did it work for everything…
How to Make Fresh Tomato Soup
How to make homemade tomato soup from fresh ripe tomatoes.
Garden Update; The World’s Most Expensive Tomato
Yesterday we ate the World’s Most Expensive Tomato. Ok, not really, but sometimes gardening feels that way, doesn’t it? When you factor in what was spent on building the raised beds, filling them with hay, alfalfa, manure and compost, buying the…
Garden update; the Octopus in my Garden
Today we finished the irrigation project. Every plant now has an ugly black rubber tube leading to a low-flow drip irrigation end. It will save water and keep me from having to lug the hose from plant to plant. But…
How to Make a Basic Vinaigrette
Saturday mornings there’s a decent-sized Farmer’s Market in Pasadena, CA. It’s been a while since I’ve been there, but I went this past weekend. I have to say it puts my local market (which is barely one step above mini swap meet)…
Garden Update; Still Battling the Monsters
We are still fighting the good fight against the raccoons. They tear down my fence, I repair it. I sprinkle pepper everywhere, they use it to season the onions they steal from my garden. I buy “Critter-Repellent” which contains the…
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