This is the easiest and the best French dressing. So delicious and simple! 1/2 cup olive oil 1/2 cup organic ketchup 1/4 cup sugar 2 Tablespoons vinegar 2 Tablespoons water 1 teaspoon garlic powder 1/2 teaspoon pepper 1 Tablespoon smoked paprika Combine all ingredients in the bowl of a blender. Blend until smooth. Place in…
The herb garden in flourishing happily and I’ve been dreaming up new recipes where I can use a bunch of them so none go to waste. Besides chopping them up and putting them in salads, using them on our grilled pizzas, making herbal simple syrups for iced tea, baking them into cakes and breads, folding…
This is a recipe that is super simple to put together and then you have to wait a month to enjoy it. I thought I’d bring you along on the process, and you can make some too, if you like. I was going to wait and post everything at once, and then it dawned on…
springtime romance::: flowers of all sorts blooming in the gardens… swinging at baypoint with the grandgirls… blufftop picnics packed into Mason jars… long hikes in the woods… big shipments of tea to photograph, sample and review… stepping out to our herb garden and picking handfuls of green, fragrant herbs for soup on a rainy sunday……
Last week I got together with my friend Nancy and we had a yummy lunch “al fresco” on her screened in gazebo-porch. It was so relaxing to sit in the fresh air, talk, listen to the sounds of birds singing, the wind blowing gently through the trees and squirrels happily chattering. The breezes brought with…