March is already here & the weather is finally starting to warm up, but our days will continue to be relatively cold until well into April. Even though I can’t wait for 70+ degree days, I also still kinda enjoy getting to bundle up on chilly days. What’s better to eat on a chilly day…
Continue reading ➞ Easy Chili Recipe with Homegrown Tomatoes
One of the best things about gardening is the ability to grow your own food. It’s even better when you can save the food that you’ve grown & enjoy it months later when your garden has gone to sleep under layers of snow. It’s a yearly tradition of mine to make my own tomato sauce…
Continue reading ➞ Lasagna Recipe with Homegrown & Homemade Sauce
The feasting time has come, my friends, when we stuff ourselves with turkey & all the sides. Pumpkin pie has always been my favorite part of Thanksgiving. Years ago, I was perfectly happy with store-bought pies for the holidays. That all changed once I started making my own pies. My baking life completely changed once…
Continue reading ➞ Fresh Pumpkin Pie Recipe: Grown From Seed & Made From Scratch
I have been making homemade pizzas since I was a child, so I consider myself to be a bit of a pizza-making expert (check out my basil, pepperoni & mushroom pizza recipe). I usually make pizzas in a standard pizza pan, but I also like using a deep dish pan (I am from the Chicago…
Continue reading ➞ Cast Iron Pizza Recipe with Garden-Fresh Ingredients
I have been making homemade pizzas ever since I was a kid (check out my pepperoni, mushroom & basil pizza recipe), but I would usually just use canned pizza sauce & store-bought pizza dough. I had dabbled a bit in homemade pizza dough, but it wasn’t something that I had really tried to perfect until…
Continue reading ➞ Perfect Pizza Dough Recipe with Fresh Garden Herbs
Pesto, how I love you. Let me count the ways. It has not been a long love affair, considering I only tried pesto for the first time last year, but it is an intense love. I try to make it as often as my basil plants allow me to because I just can’t get enough…
I don’t know about you, fellow gardeners, but I have been harvesting cucumbers every day for a few weeks now. No complaints here because I love cucumbers & it is always fun trying out new ways to prepare them. I already created a recipe for cucumber salad, which is a favorite in our house, but…
Like a lot of gardeners this year, I have been enjoying a bumper crop of strawberries. I only have one everbearing strawberry plant, so I’m used to picking maybe 5 a week during the harvesting periods. But, this year has been a different story & I have been gathering about 10-15 strawberries a day so…
Continue reading ➞ Homegrown & Homemade Strawberry Ice Cream Recipe
I started growing mint for the first time in my AeroGarden in January & if there’s one thing that I’ve learned since then, it’s that mint grows like no one’s business. I heard about this, so I was aware of its prolific growth, but I didn’t really understand just how crazy it would get. Now…
Like a lot of people, I have been making homemade pizzas since I was a kid. Who doesn’t have fun putting together the perfect customized pie? But it was just a few years ago when I realized the power that homegrown basil brings to a pizza. I love a good Neopolitan pizza, but I also…
Continue reading ➞ Basil up Your Pizza: Pepperoni, Mushroom & Basil Pizza Recipe
The Plantiful Gardener 