http://www.flickr.com/photos/baldmonk/2302950648/ I’m famous for my Lemon Meringue Pies, but I keep the recipe a closely guarded secret – my husband doesn’t even know it. However, this Lemon Souffle recipe is a variant of the pie recipe, but without a few important ingredients and steps. The key to a fantastic lemon dessert is to use Eureka…
There isn’t quite anything like sipping on ice cold limoncello after dinner with good friends on a hot summer night. It can be hard to find and is never cheap. However, you can easily make it at home and it tastes so much better. It’s great to start now when you are probably drowning in extra lemons…
I recently learned how to make flour tortillas from scratch. They are SO incredibly simple I’m amazed more people don’t make them from scratch. Honestly, it’s easier and faster to make them at home than to run to the store to buy them. And they taste SO much better. Not to mention you have better…
Even if you have just one plant, zucchini can take over. So what to do with all that squash? Well, I have a great recipe for making zucchini into bread and butter style pickles*. What you will need: 14 cups diagonally sliced zucchini 1/2 cup pickling/canning salt Cool water 6 cups white vinegar 4 cups…
This is our fourth year growing corn. Our first year we grew the standard sweet hybrid corn. It did pretty good. The second year we decided to go with heirloom “dual purpose” corn. When young, it could be eaten right off the cob and when it was mature it was a flour corn. We ended…
I needed to make yogurt this weekend. I pulled out some clean quart jars only to find they all smelled like pickles or tomatoes. From previous experience I realized that you NEVER make yogurt in jars that were once used for canning pickles, tomatoes or any high acid food because the taste transfers to the…
Dog Island Farm is a small urban farm in the San Francisco Bay Area.
