Plans for Labor Day barbecues means summer is almost gone. Many people will be buying or harvesting the very last of their summer produce, hoping perhaps for an extra two weeks of eggplant or peppers. Zucchini is becoming a memory. As we scurry to freeze and dry the final late summer garden bonanza, I will…
Category Archives: Food preservation
Homemade pesto, a summer ritual
Abundant and prolific herbs is a sure sign of summer. Back in graduate school my husband and I grew herbs on the porch of our apartment and always focused on basil. By this time of year we harvested our prolific basil and turned it into pesto that we dined on all year long. The only…
Homemade baby food, another great way to preserve the taste of summer
Babies are precious and all the more so when they reinforce your own values by eating vigorously anything that comes out of your home garden. Baby Alastair is eight months old and eating us out of nectarines and vegetables. It is a good thing we have a big garden. But gardens come and go; our…
Sun dried tomatoes, making your own
In our video series on preserving the taste of summer, Mom describes in the videos below how to dry tomatoes and how to preserve them in olive oil. If you end up with a tomato bounty, this really is an easy way to preserve them, though you do need temperatures of at least 85 degrees….
Putting up a pepper bounty, quick and easy
Last summer we had such a pepper bounty Mom created a new system for freezing them. In a previous video, she describes her method for freezing vegetables in pieces, but here we have an inspiration: “pepper plops.” Check out how she makes them, freezes them, and uses them later. Written instructions are below the jump,…
Preserving the taste of summer with homemade fruit leather
Here in California we end up with mountains of produce this time of year. Mom is a whiz at preserving it. I posted last week about some of the resources on this site for preserving the summer bounty. Fruit leather is a great option if you have abundant fruit. It is a bit like those…
Ideas to use and preserve your summer produce bounty
Our garden produce is only now rolling in well but I know many lucky people are probably up to their eyeballs already in produce from their own garden or from a friend’s. I have a few “Mom videos” in the pipeline on using and preserving summer produce but thought I would first direct you to…
Freezing: An Easy Process to Preserve Food and Nutrients
Summer gardens are slowing down but many of us are still bombarded with summer peppers, squash, and tomatoes. The only reasonable thing to do with the bounty is to preserve them in some way. For the sake of nostalgia or simply to be able to say you’ve done it, you may be tempted to can…
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Amanda Rose, Ph.D., is a political scientist and author of "Rebuild from Depression," on the link between nutrient deficiencies and depression. She has been depression-free for over four years, even during the recent pregnancy of her second child. Read her postpartum depression success story.
Life After Depression
There really is life after depression. I am so excited by that point, in fact, that I neglect this blog and find fun/quirky projects to do with my family. We live in the Sequoia National Forest in a house (and former brothel) designed by Irving Gill. My 7-year-old son Frederick and I chronicle our adventures at Gill on the Hill when we're not exploring. Frederick posts some of his homeschool projects at "Frankly Frederick."