Month: November 2025

Keeping Fresh Herbs Longer

Keeping Fresh Herbs Longer

This isn’t a recipe, just a tip. Fresh herbs from the store are expensive! If you have some extra green herbs (parsley, basil, etc) you can keep them for cooking another day. Simply dampen a paper towel, fold or wrap the paper towel over the 

Hibachi Noodles

Hibachi Noodles

Here is a quick, easy and delicious side dish to serve with chicken, pork or beef. You can also use the sauce for the noodles as a marinade for your meat, as long as you heat the sauce up to a boil before adding it 

Dried Tomatoes

Dried Tomatoes

These aren’t sun dried tomatoes, but they work the same in recipes. They have the same concentrated, sweet taste that works great in pasta dishes, salads, breads and stews. We have learned to keep these in the freezer in a zipped freezer bag, where they’ll 

Stuffed Pepper Casserole

Stuffed Pepper Casserole

The traditional flavors of a stuffed pepper, in an easy to make casserole. This colorful dish will become a family favorite.

Smoke Packets

Smoke Packets

Sometime you want to get that smokey flavor, but you just want to use the grill instead of firing up the smoker. You can make these smoke packets and place them on the burners under the grill. After putting them in the grill, light it 

Salsa Verde

Salsa Verde

I’ve always like the sharper taste of green salsa and always wanted to make some. I’ve read that green salsa is more popular in Mexico than red salsa. I grew tomatillos in the garden this year, and got enough to make about 6 pints, but 

Ham Spread

Ham Spread

I saw this in the store and I remembered my folks having this on crackers and how much I loved it as a kid. After we bought it a few times, it occurred to me that it probably wasn’t too hard to make. I found