I think my vegetable garden is almost done for the season, tonight we have a frost alert so I gathered up most of the vegetables that are tender to the cold. I picked most of the peppers, the last of the tomatoes, a couple eggplant, and some watermelon that are just getting full size.

My tomatoes were a bit of a disappointment this year. I had 18 different varieties, some did well, but most did not. I think it’s because our summer was cool, and it never did get very warm.
The peppers on the other hand were in overdrive!  I’ve given …read more

My pepper plants are in overdrive right now. I have tons of bell peppers, banana peppers, and a few hot peppers starting to come on. So what am I going to do with all those peppers?

Freezing peppers is easy. I just cut the tops off, and take the seeds out, and throw them in freezer bags. Then later in the year I take them out a pepper at a time to use in stir fry, make southwest omelets, pizza, pepper poppers, or fajitas. They’re easy to slice while they’re still frozen, or run them under water for a few minutes …read more

Okay, I promise this will be my LAST fried rice post for a LOOOONG while. I just couldn’t resist, we had people over 2 weekends ago and to make the rice more interesting, I made this. Of course it’s really not my own invention, in the Philippines you go to parties and there’s always one version of this or another. I’ve also seen different recipes for “rainbow” fried rice in Thai, Chinese and Vietnamese cookbooks. I’m sure there are others. The point simply is to make the fried rice as colorful as you possibly can. …read more