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Print Peperonata Ingredients 3-4 hot house tomatoes slightly under ripe Extra virgin olive oil 1 yellow onion sliced very thin 3 bell peppers make it festive use a red/yellow/orange combination stems and seeds removed ½ cup Messina Hof Private Reserve Chardonnay ½ cup fresh basil -chiffonade Salt and pepper to taste Instructions Blanch and […]
PEPPERS – GARDENING TIPS FROM THE CULINARY VIEW as recommended by Michael Vidrine Did you know peppers – hot or sweet – are really berries? October is the first full month of autumn and can be a cornucopia. Cool season crops are starting to come in and warm season vegetables get a second wind in […]
Print Baked Winter Squash Ingredients 2 -1 lbs acorn squash Trim top and bottom so they are square 4 tbsp butter 2 tbsp cinnamon ½ cup MH late harvest Riesling Salt and pepper to taste 1 Pinch of nutmeg Instructions Split the squash in half cross section Scoop out the seeds ( These can […]
WINTER SQUASH – GARDENING TIPS FROM THE CULINARY VIEW as recommended by Michael Vidrine Fall starts this month and we should get a break from the August heat and also get a bit more precipitation. Fall is also the season for winter squash. Squash is native to the Western hemisphere and in fact the word […]
Print Date Nut Bread Recipe with Jujube (Chinese red Date) Ingredients 1 ½ cup dried Jujubes Red Chinese dates ½ cup Papa Paulo Port 2 ½ cups water 1 Tbsp baking soda 1 cup chopped pecans optional 2 cups granulated sugar 3 tbsp butter 2 eggs beaten 1 tsp salt 4 ½ cups all […]
JUJUBE – GARDENING TIPS FROM THE CULINARY VIEW as recommended by Michael Vidrine It is certain that August will be a warm month and possibly quite dry as well. Despite tough growing conditions, we will be harvesting one of our most hardy and somewhat unusual fruit trees – the jujube. The jujube (Ziziphus jujuba ) […]
Print Cowboy Caviar Ingredients 2 cups cooked black beans – cooled 2 cups cooked southern peas also known as cow peas or black eye peas- cooled 1-2 cups Fresh diced tomatoes 2 cups cooked corn kernels 1 small red onion diced 1 green bell pepper 1 jalapeno minced 1 bunch cilantro chopped S+P to […]
SOUTHERN PEAS – GARDENING TIPS FROM THE CULINARY VIEW as recommended by Michael Vidrine July is the first full month of summer and brings hot days and warm nights. July is typically our lowest rainfall month as well so the crops we are growing now need to be robust. Fortunately, there are many wonderful vegetables […]
Print Ingredients 1 lb Fresh Blackberries hulled and rinsed 3 Tbsp sugar 3 Tbsp AP flour ½ cup MH port 2 cups rolled oats 1 cup flour 1 cup brown sugar ½ lb cubed cold butter 1 Tbsp cinnamon Instructions • In a bowl mix together the berries/sugar/ flour/port• In a separate bowl mix together […]
BLACKBERRIES – GARDENING TIPS FROM THE CULINARY VIEW as recommended by Michael Vidrine When I was a boy my family would go “berry-ing” this time of year. Each armed with a bucket and a stick we would pick wild dewberries. The bucket held the harvest and the stick was used to probe for unwanted critters […]
