Minestrone soup is an Italian classic! This version is made with cannellini beans, chicken stock, cabbage, potato, zucchini, carrots, plum tomatoes, and Parmesan cheese. Do you love minestrone? This favorite Italian soup is made with fresh seasonal vegetables, often with the addition of pasta or rice. Common ingredients include beans, onions, celery, carrots, stock, and tomatoes. There is no set recipe for minestrone, since it is usually made...
Step-by-step guide for making fruit leather, puréed fruit, spread out and dried, then rolled up to store. A great way to use up excess fruit of the season. When you have your own fruit trees (or access to someone else's) sometimes you can feel a bit buried in fruit, whatever happens to be dropping off the trees at that time. Summer becomes a mad dash of canning, jamming and freezing, trying to preserve the bounty to enjoy throughout...
This Slow Cooker Jambalaya is a great way to make this New Orleans favorite with less effort! It's loaded with shrimp, chicken, sausage, and Creole seasonings. Jambalaya is one of my favorite one-pot style recipes. The combo of sausage, chicken, and shrimp with Creole seasoning and rice is always a winner in my book. Making it in a slow cooker makes it even easier to prepare! There are a few things to watch out for when assembling the recipe,...
Turkey thighs, seared and slow-cooked, braised in a mustard sauce with carrots and parsnips. Perfect belly warming stew for a chilly day! This Slow Cooked Turkey Stew with Mustard is a braised riff off of one of my favorite recipes on the site, BBQ turkey with mustard sauce. Turkey is a wonderful protein — easy to find and inexpensive — but it can also be quite strongly flavored, especially the dark meat. Strong flavors need to play...
This hearty beef stew features some classic Jamaican ingredients that make it spicy, rich, and bold in flavor. Served with or without rice — you can’t go wrong. You can get any number of beef stew varieties depending on where you are in the world. This recipe celebrates Jamaican flavors with a base of onions, scallion, garlic, thyme, hot peppers, and ginger, plus the classic Jamaican spice: pimento, aka, allspice. Many beef stews include...
