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This recipe for salmon pie is a seaside version of the classic French-Canadian meat pie. It is often served right along with meat pie on Christmas Eve and New Years Eve.

French-Canadian Salmon Pie

This grilled garlic scapes recipe adds a layer of sweet smoky char to the mild garlicky flavor, and then enhances it further with a simple dusting of sea salt and freshly ground pepper.

Grilled Garlic Scapes

A slight twist from your regular pesto, this recipe combines garlic scapes with lemon balm for an early garden fresh variation. Spoon this garlic scape lemon balm pesto on pasta, seafood, and even sandwiches.

Garlic Scape Lemon Balm Pesto

You can't go wrong with chili. Since the chili simmers in the slow cooker all day, it is perfect for a weeknight meal.

Easy Slow Cooker Chili

Is your garden overflowing with zucchini? Learn the many ways you can preserve zucchini so you can enjoy the abundant harvest during the winter months

3 Easy Ways to Preserve Zucchini

Skip the store bought bottles and shake up your own homemade Italian salad dressing using fresh ingredients. This Italian salad dressing tastes great on leafy salad, adds a zesty zing to pasta salad, and is a delicious marinade for grilled meats.

Mason Jar Italian Salad Dressing Recipe

These sweet and tangy cucumber bread and butter pickles are perfect for burgers, sandwiches, or snacked right out of the jar.

Granny’s Bread and Butter Pickles Recipe

Canning roasted tomatillo salsa is a great way to preserve the abundance of tomatillos that the garden produces. Jars of tomatillo salsa verde come in handy for all your favorite Mexican dishes.

Roasted Tomatillo Salsa Verde for Canning

This tomato salsa recipe adds delicious depth of flavor from grilling the vegetables. The flavors transform to a delightful blend of sweet, smoky char, with a spicy kick that makes you crave for more.

Grilled Tomato Salsa Recipe

Make your own garlic powder by dehydrating and grinding garlic cloves. If you grow garlic or purchase in bulk and still have an abundance in storage come spring, it may be worth the effort to turn the excess into garlic powder before the cloves go bad.

Homemade Garlic Powder

Roasted read jalapeño hot sauce dripping from a spoon

Roasted Red Jalapeño Hot Sauce Recipe

This summer tomato sauce recipe combines vine-ripened tomatoes with onions, garlic and fresh Italian herbs. It is a classic marinara sauce that comes together in about an hour.

Fresh Summer Tomato Sauce

Canning salsa is a great way to preserve the abundant harvest to enjoy all year. Read on for tips to prepare and safely can salsa.

Tomato Salsa Recipe for Canning

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.

Ginger Garlic Pork Fried Rice Recipe

These chicken fajitas are made with strips of chili-lime seasoned chicken breast, tossed with vibrant peppers, onions, and wrapped in warm flour tortillas.

Chili-Lime Chicken Fajitas

cherry jam in jar

Small Batch Sweet Cherry Jam Recipe

Garlic scapes are only around for a short time. Preserve their mild garlic flavor with this pickled garlic scapes canning recipe. Enjoy this summer treat all year long! Visit for full recipe.

Pickled Garlic Scapes Recipe

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.

Sweet and Sour Chicken Stir Fry

This sweet and sour cherry sauce recipe can be made from fresh cherries and fresh pineapple or bottled juice. This cherry sweet and sour sauce is delicious as a dip or stir-fry.

Sweet and Sour Cherry Sauce

This classic creamy, New England fish chowder uses simple ingredients and tastes like restaurant quality.

Creamy New England Fish Chowder

Potatoes, bacon, and cheddar cheese are a delicious combination! Enjoy these potato skins as an appetizer, snack, or side dish.

Cheddar Bacon Potato Skins

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.

Slow Cooker New England Baked Beans

Something extraordinary occurs when vegetables are roasted. The high heat crisps up the outside of the vegetables and locks in their natural flavor. Then that flavor transforms, sweetens and intensifies as it roasts. This one-pan, roasted rosemary chicken and vegetables recipe is an easy to prep meal bursting with flavor.

Roasted Rosemary Chicken and Vegetables

These sizzling beef steak fajitas are made with strips of steak infused with a flavorful chili-lime marinade, combined with colorful peppers, onions, and folded into a warm tortilla.

Chili-Lime Beef Steak Fajitas

Don’t let the plain appearance of these soft molasses cookies fool you. One bite will tingle your taste buds with the warm flavors of cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, and molasses.

Rena’s Soft Molasses Cookies

These toasted almond anise biscotti are bursting with toasted almonds and subtle anise flavor. They are ideal for dunking in a cup of coffee or tea.

Toasted Almond Anise Biscotti Recipe

Italian anise cookies stand out on the cookie tray because of its glazed top and colorful sprinkles. When you take a bite, you will be surprised by its soft interior and unexpected savory licorice-like flavor of the anise.

Auntie’s Italian Anise Cookies

Save the turkey bones from your holiday dinner. You can use them to make a rich and flavorful turkey stock that is perfect for turkey noodle soup. This comforting soup is a wonderful way to warm up on a chilly night.

Homemade Turkey Noodle Soup

Make use of the whole bird by turning the bones into a delicious rich turkey stock that is perfect for gravy, soup, or stew. Roasting the bones first, along with the veggies, will result in a richer flavor. Then add everything into the stockpot and simmer into a tasty stock.

How to Make a Rich Turkey Stock

Chicken enchiladas with roasted green chile sauce is a delicious meal option when you’re craving Southwestern-style comfort food. The mellow spicy flavor of the Anaheim or New Mexico type peppers pairs well with shredded chicken and Mexican spices and cheese.

Chicken Enchiladas with Roasted Green Chile Sauce

Yes, you can make crispy seasoned baked French fries at home without deep-frying in vegetable oil. Instead, make your own hand cut homemade baked fries!

Crispy Taco Seasoned Baked French Fries

Is there anything that screams comfort food more than your classic beef stew? I call this “Harvest Hearty Beef Stew” because it is filled with vegetables and herbs harvested from our garden. This recipe takes advantage of slow cooking in a crockpot allowing the flavors to infuse and the beef to transform to a tender, melt in your mouth morsel.

Harvest Hearty Beef Stew

This roasted green chile sauce pairs perfectly with Mexican inspired dishes, including burritos, enchiladas, tamales, and more.

Roasted Green Chile Sauce

How to Roast and Peel Peppers: Roasting peppers enhances the flavor and allows the tough, bitter skin to peel away from the pepper.

How to Roast and Peel Peppers Step by Step

Replace store bought envelopes with this homemade taco seasoning mix and eliminate the mystery ingredients, anti-caking agents, and preservatives.

Homemade Taco Seasoning

This tasty recipe combines shredded zucchini with garlic, Parmesan cheese, fresh herbs, and is served with a marinara dipping sauce for an Italian inspired twist.

Zucchini Garlic Bites

This delicious garden fresh zucchini lasagna is made with thin slices of zucchini instead of pasta noodles. It is a gluten-free alternative with all the flavor of the traditional version. Also freezer friendly for make ahead meals.

Garden Fresh Zucchini Lasagna

You need just four basic ingredients to make this flour tortilla recipe. Making homemade tortillas is worth the extra effort because they do taste so much better than store bought tortillas with no additives. Try this simple homemade flour tortilla recipe and you will know exactly what ingredients you will be eating.

Homemade Flour Tortilla Recipe

With just a few simple ingredients, this strawberry vinaigrette salad dressing is easy to whip up in a blender or food processor.

Fresh Strawberry Vinaigrette Salad Dressing

Homemade Breakfast Sausage Patties: These breakfast sausage patties are made with ground pork and flavored with fresh herbs and seasonings.

Homemade Breakfast Sausage Recipe

See how simple it is to infuse vinegar with a subtle violet sweetness and a purple flush of color. Wild violet infused vinegar can be used to make delicious salad dressing for spring vegetables and as a marinade for meats or grilled vegetables.

Wild Violet Vinegar Infusion

Three simple ingredients are all you need to make your own fresh, homemade egg noodles. If you keep a flock of chickens, egg noodles are a great way to use up your excess eggs.

Homemade Egg Noodles

Tourtière, also known as pork pie or meat pie, is a traditional French-Canadian pie enjoyed throughout Canada and New England. It is made from a combination of ground meat, onions, savory seasonings, and baked in a traditional piecrust.

Tourtière: A French-Canadian Meat Pie Recipe

Create some homemade food gifts that everyone will enjoy. Need some ideas? Here are some culinary inspired presents that you can make in your kitchen.

20+ Homemade Food Gifts from the Kitchen

This easy, crockpot tomato sauce made with fresh tomatoes is rich and flavorful. It takes little effort to fill the slow cooker up with all the ingredients and let it simmer all day.

Crockpot Tomato Sauce with Fresh Tomatoes

This garden fresh salsa recipe takes advantage of seasonal ingredients. It is so easy to make, just toss the ingredients into a food processor or blender, pulse it to the consistency you like, and enjoy.

Garden Fresh Salsa

The mild onion flavor of chive blossom vinegar is combined with honey, Dijon mustard, and fresh chopped chives. Toss this flavorful vinaigrette salad dressing with baby greens.

Mason Jar Chive Vinaigrette Recipe

Make your own chive blossom vinegar. See how easy it is to infuse vinegar with a subtle onion essence and a purple blush of color.

Chive Blossom Vinegar Infusion

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