Homemade Artisan Bread
This week’s tip falls squarely in the category of homesteading: homemade bread conjures up happiness on a number of levels.
Look Ma – Homemade Bread in 5 Minutes!
One benefit of taking a long airplane trip is that a tremendous amount of reading is accomplished. During my trip to Italy - land of wonderful food and bread - I read Jeff Hertzberg and Zoë Francois's book, Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day. It has changed the way I think about making bread.
Confession: I have a bread machine, and while I learned how to make bread the old fashioned way prior to getting the bread machine (*cringe* - 20 years ago), I must admit that ...
Mar Vista’s Bounty Hunter: Satisfy Your Sugar Jones
The latest post on Mar Vista Patch is up and ready to make your taste buds tingle. Read all about the most decadent treats in town:
Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth with Help from Sugar Jones
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Making Kale Chips – Solar vs. Oven
Sunny days mean that it's time for a little solar food drying. Add an overabundance of kale and you've got a formula for a tasty snack: Kale Chips
We pulled out the solar food dryer that we built last year and started warming it in the sun. Before long it was up to 110º inside and ready for a batch of kale chip. Here's the recipe we used:
Crispy Kale Chips
Zucchini Overload
It’s only June and there’s already an abundance of zucchini and other summer squash in the garden. What do you do?.
Zucchini Overload Solution: Zucchini Bread Cookies
There are some years that I don't plant zucchini because I'm still sick of it from the year before. This was not one of those years. Admittedly, summer squash doesn't hold my interest as long as winter squash is around, but I wanted to try a new variety of summer squash. But wait...
First let's clarify something. Summer squash grows in the summer. Winter squash... grows in the summer. The difference is in the storage. Summer squash has to be consumed during the summer, but winter squash stores through the winter (think pumpkins, ...
New Video: Transplanting Tomato Sprouts
Check out the newest instructional video on the Gardenerd YouTube channel. We show you how we transplant tomato sprouts into bigger pots and nurture them to planting size. Cool tips for you from Gardenerd!
Transplanting Tomatoes
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Gardening Joys – Harvesting Corn
There's an old adage that advises corn growers to have the water boiling before you pick the corn. So as I write this there is a pot of water coming to a boil on the stove. It's harvest time for sweet corn here in our test garden, and here's the blow-by-blow:
We grew Stowell's Sweet Corn, an heirloom variety, for the first time this year. We planted 20 plants in a 4x4 square foot bed (using Grow BioIntensive hexagonal spacing. Confession: the bed should only have fit 16 plants, but we ...
An Olive Oil Education – Mar Vista’s Bounty Hunter
The latest post on Mar Vista Patch.com is available - learn the truth about that bottle of olive oil in your pantry:
Mar Vista's Liquid Gold
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Scattering Seed Heads
As warmer weather arrives and summer approaches, the flowers of spring begin to dry up and die. You can lengthen their lives by and ensure they will re-seed again by following these tips.