Oven Baked Bacon-Wrapped Asparagus and Red Pepper Bundles

Tender young asparagus stalks and bright red sweet peppers are wrapped in hickory smoked bacon, drizzled in olive oil and baked until crisp and juicy!

Butternut Squash Soup with Parmesan Toasts

Here’s a recipe I originally posted October 26th, 2011. I’ve been craving it and didn’t think it would hurt to re-share it with you all again :) The changing colors of autumn always make me want to savor all of the season’s bounty of apples, pumpkins, and most importantly – squash! I had a counter […]

My raised bed Garden Plan – 2011

Since this is the first year that we are trying the Square foot gardening method in our new raised beds, I wanted to make sure that I had a good plan in place.  Usually I graph out our large gardens on graph paper in long rows of vegetables. Using this new method, each square foot […]

How to build a raised bed vegetable garden!

This year was going to be the year that I said the heck with it and didn’t have a garden. That lasted about 2 weeks then I knew I was just kidding myself! A garden is a MUST for us! We need to be able to eat fresh green onions, cherry tomatoes, and have plants […]

Quick Creamy Ham and Veggie Soup Recipe

I had a chilly feeling all day today and sure enough right around the time Super G. arrived home from work, it  had started to snow. It is still snowing . We  already have over an inch of the fluff all over everything once again and it’s still snowing like crazy. Yuck! Snow makes me […]

A Thousand Word Thursday

I finally cooked, sieved and froze these tomatoes that had been lounging around on first my counter then the table for days. (The pile was much bigger byt the time I got to them, lol) Pie found this tomato amusing :) I also finally got around to shredding up all the zucchini that was strewn […]

A Veggie Harvest

Our little vegetable garden is doing fairly well this year. I have half heartedly been planting one since we moved 2 years ago. The soil at our old house was just the way I wanted it and practically weed free since I amended it and took care of it for so many years. I am […]

Fried Zucchini Slices

I tried, but I could not wait any longer for my zucchini to grow big enough. I bought one from the local farm stand instead :) I have been craving Fried Zucchini! It’s a summer treat! This recipe is pretty darn good! I adapted from one I found on Allrecipes.com (my go-to place for recipe […]