Your fall garden is loaded with great flavors you can add to some delicious and comforting recipes. Some of my favorite fall flavors include pumpkin, winter squash, apples, and more. You can go as simple as apples and dip, or get baking and make some wonderful fall flavored desserts.

Pumpkin Pie Blondies
Apple Crisp
Homemade Apple Pie
Cinnamon Apple Dip
Apple Cake
Caramel Apples
Baked Acorn Squash with Maple and Brown Sugar

Yum! Take full advantage of any late season fruits and vegetables that are still in your garden to make your favorite fall dishes. Fall fruits and vegetables are loaded with wonderful flavors, combine them in fall …read more

This time of the year I love to walk out to the garden and pick my supper. Many of our late July and August meals come straight from the garden. With a little “garnish” from the local grocery or farmer’s market.

Here are a few of my favorite summer meals:

A fresh from the garden salad
Crumb coated fried yellow squash
Corn on the cob, with all the trimmings
Green beans, new potatoes, and ham
Fresh garden salsa from the tomatoes in my garden

The best part about all of these dishes is how easy they are! I don’t have much time for cooking during the …read more

This time of year my garden is loaded with fresh herbs, just begging to be picked and added to some of my favorite recipes.
Unlike a French omelet, which is usually made for one, an Italian frittata can serve several people. Frittata’s can also be sliced into single portions and frozen for the week making for an easy breakfast. Just heat it in the microwave!
The best part is it’s a fabulous way to use the fresh rosemary, leeks, and basil growing right outside your front door.
This summer garden recipe is courtesy of Atkins, and is part of their 2 week menu.

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Horehound is one of my favorite herbs. I have a little patch reserved for this wonderful herb in my kitchen herb garden. Every fall I make a batch of Horehound Drops for those mid-winter sore scratchy throats, and coughs. They do seem to help, and they’re delicious.
This recipe is very much like hard tack candy in how you make it, and in the finished product.
Horehound Drops
Ingredients

2 cups of fresh horehound (include the leaves stems and flowers), or 1 cup dried horehound
2 1/2 cups water
1/2 cup corn syrup
3 c brown sugar
1 teaspoon of butter
1 teaspoon of lemon juice
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With budgets tightening, and your dollar stretched thinner this Christmas season, why not make some of your own gifts for the holidays? I know I usually love the homemade gifts I receive.
Jelly makes a wonderful Christmas gift, paired with crackers, or some tea. It’s not perishable, like cookies, or fudge, but it is delicious to eat. The extra bonus, it doesn’t take too much time in the kitchen, it just looks like it did.
R.W. Knudsen sent me this wonderful, and simple recipe for black currant jelly. If you missed the boat on the berries, or fruit in your …read more

As part of my month long one year Blog-a-versary, I thought I’d take a look back at the recipes I’ve shared with you over the last year.
Here are a few of my favorites:
Hot Pepper Jam
Zucchini Cobbler
Zucchini Bread
Candied Flowers
Minted Sugar
Digestive Tea
Herbal Vinegars
My Grandma’s Recipe for Canning Red Beets
I’ve had a wonderful time sharing them. I hope to share many more garden recipes with you.
Image (c) L Gerlach
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If you have a patch full of beautiful orange pumpkins , here are a few ways to keep them from going to waste.

Paint your pumpkins
Carve them with power tools
Pumpkin cookies With Cream Cheese Icing
Pumpkin pie
Pumpkin serving bowls
Pumpkin Crunch Cake
Fall Displays
Pumpkin cheesecake
Pumpkin Bread
Roast the Pumpkin Seeds
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

What else do you do with all those pumpkins in your pumpkin patch?
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One of my favorite fall snacks is hot pepper jam spread on crackers. It’s a true assault to your taste buds. You get sweet, hot, and salty all in one bite.
If you have a bunch of hot peppers, and you’ve already frozen your pepper limit, and you’ve had your fill of garden salsa, here’s a recipe to use up some of those extra hot peppers.
Hot Pepper Jam
1 cup hot banana peppers (you can use mild if you want to make a sweet jam without the heat)- remove the stems only
3/4 cup red or green bell pepper, remove …read more

My sister gave me this delicious way to use up some of those extra zucchini laying around on your countertops. It tastes like an apple cobbler (you could easily substitute apples for the zucchini later in the fall). The crust is crumbly and crunchy.

Zucchini Cobbler Recipe:

Ingredients:
Filling

5-6 cups of chopped, peeled, seeded zucchini
1/3 cup lemon juice (the juice of about 2 lemons)
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1/4 tsp. nutmeg

Crust

2 cups flour (I used a 50/50 blend of white and whole wheat)
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter
1/2 tsp cinnamon

To make it:

Preheat the oven to 375.` Cook the zucchini and lemon juice for …read more

Robust Cooking has some ideas for using all those extra tomatoes and zucchini overflowing in your garden. Go check them out for some weekend reading.
21 Ways To Use Zucchini
20 Ways To Use Those Fresh Tomatoes
While you’re there you should also check out:
The Stuffed Pepper Recipe
Cherries Anti-Aging Benefits
Health Benefits of Pumpkin
Eggplant and Tomato Ratatouille
Have a great weekend! Happy gardening.
Tomatoes Image (c) L Gerlach all rights reserved
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