This tomato salsa recipe for canning is packed with tomato, peppers, onions, and just enough spicy tingle to tickle your taste buds. Open a jar any time and enjoy with tortilla chips or with your favorite Mexican inspired meals. Many of us begin a vegetable garden with dreams of preserving the harvest dancing in our…
Recipes
Roasted Tomatillo Salsa (Salsa Verde)
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This simple roasted tomatillo salsa recipe is easy to make. Roasting the vegetables adds a delicious smoky flavor and mellows the acidity of the tomatillos. Enjoy this salsa verde with your favorite Mexican dishes. Until recently, the only Mexican green sauce I have tasted has been out of a jar or in an authentic Mexican…
Pork Fried Rice Recipe
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Transform leftovers into a tasty pork fried rice. Combine pork, rice, and veggies with a ginger garlic sauce for a dish that will satisfy your craving for takeout. Fried rice is a great recipe to have on hand to re-purpose leftovers, so they don’t go to waste. This pork fried rice recipe combines leftover pork,…
Chili-Lime Chicken Fajitas
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These chicken fajitas are made with strips of chili-lime seasoned chicken breast, tossed with vibrant peppers, onions, and wrapped in warm flour tortillas. One of my favorite ways to use peppers and onions from the garden is to make these simple chicken fajitas. This fajita recipe is versatile. You can use any type of peppers…
Small Batch Sweet Cherry Jam Recipe
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This chunky, low-sugar cherry jam is delicious slathered on toasted homemade bread, swirled in yogurt, or drizzled over ice cream. Less sugar lets the natural fruit flavor shine. Cherry season is fleeting. Fresh cherries are only available for a short time. Each year, I try to eat my fill, and then capture the delicious, flavor…
Pickled Garlic Scapes Recipe
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If you enjoy pickles and garlic, you are going to love the flavor of these pickled garlic scapes. If you grow hardneck garlic you are in for a treat because the plant provides two harvests. Several weeks before the garlic bulb is ready for harvesting, it sends up a flower stalk. The stalk grows upwards,…
Sweet and Sour Chicken Stir Fry
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Skip the take-out and make this sweet and sour chicken stir fry recipe using fresh cherries, pineapple, and vegetables – No thick breading and no deep-frying. We didn’t have any Chinese restaurants in the small town where I grew up. When I moved to Portland, Maine in my early 20s, I was introduced to American-Chinese…
Cherry Sweet and Sour Sauce
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This sweet and sour sauce recipe can be made from fresh cherries and pineapple or bottled juice. Delicious with chicken, pork, vegetables, noodles or rice. Cherries are only available for a limited time during the year. When they reach my local grocery store, I like to capture the flavor and preserve them into a freezer-friendly,…
Creamy New England Fish Chowder
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This classic creamy, New England fish chowder uses simple ingredients and tastes like restaurant quality. Chowders were once considered a poor man’s meal. Today they are elevated to an award-winning food served in fine restaurants. Like most of the cuisines of the world, what we know as New England fish chowder came out of common…
Cheddar Bacon Potato Skins
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Potatoes, bacon, and cheddar cheese are a delicious combination! Enjoy these potato skins as an appetizer, snack, or side dish. Potatoes are back! For many of us, potatoes never left. However, thanks to the recent anti-carb craze, potatoes were deemed as “bad for you” and many gave up eating potatoes all together. Potatoes are one…
Slow Cooker New England Baked Beans
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With a few simple ingredients and time, you can make a delicious, slow cooked New England baked beans dinner. Skip the can and simmer your own homemade baked beans in your crock pot or slow cooker. Just about every culture has their version of a baked bean dish. New England baked beans are an old-fashioned food…