Eat your vegetables! We heard this when growing up and it’s just as important as we get older. This homemade spaghetti sauce recipe is full of garden fresh vegetables–eggplant, squash, bell peppers, tomatoes. It’s a good way to incorporate some of summer’s produce into a meal.
Monthly Archives: July 2015
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Two Cool Cucumber Dishes – a Soup and a Sauce
Cucumbers grow well in Louisiana gardens in the summer. I have huge crop and try to find different ways to prepare them. Here are two recipes which use the same ingredient combination — cucumbers, yogurt, garlic — but with very different results. One recipe was a hit and the other bombed. Continue reading
Cajun Macque Choux
DIY Project: Let’s Make Homemade Pickles
My mother’s homemade bread and butter pickles are the best I’ve tasted. They are a sweet pickle with Indian-type spices. Every summer when I was growing cup, canning pickles and other garden produce was a major summer activity. I have plenty of garden cucumbers and decided to tackle this DIY project myself.