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Author: kbrenner

Plate of half-eaten oysters with lemon and sauces.
Oysters – Shell Recycling

When I first heard about eating raw oysters in college, someone told me that you’re supposed to swallow them whole. It seemed kind of pointless

green grapes growing on the vine
Pick Your Own

Pick-Your-Own farms are not only a great place to take the kids so that they can see where their food originates – not really one

Perfect fried green tomatoes with dip in the center
Fried Green Tomatoes

Tomatoes are still coming in but I’m not sure how much longer we have until we get a frost. Right now it’s still in the

Compost with fresh kitchen scraps on top
Backyard Composting

Food scraps and yard waste currently make up 20 to 30 percent of what we throw away, and should be composted instead. Making compost keeps

Three beautiful relish jars in front of funky peacock wallpaper
Pepper Relish

While many articles say that you don’t need sugar in canning, almost all of the recipes have sugar. I wanted to use up all of

Serving presentation of borscht
Russian Borscht (Soup)

If you follow my blog, you may know my kids are Russian. Two of them (13 and 16) got together and made this great Borscht.

Wine sauce lamb on plate with mostly grilled vegetables and some melon.
Lamb with Rosemary Wine Sauce

There was a recipe I wanted to try that called for lamb rib chops but all I remembered when I was talking to the farmer’s

Apple bread on a strawberry plate with coffee and an old phone
Bread Season

Right when I was thinking it’s squash season and time to start thinking of what to do with everything from a pumpkin to a spaghetti

Fettuccine Alfredo in the bowl
Fettuccine Alfredo Primavera

It is getting CHILLY! Not an easy time to sit on the cold bleachers at the school stadium. I actually got a hot chocolate and

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