It always frustrates me when a recipe calls for winter and summer squash in the same dish. Maybe they are ready at the same time where you live, but not here! However, thanks to our amazing new greenhouse, tomatoes are ripening during both winter and summer squash season. And our pepper plants are safe inside the greenhouse, too. Thus, it calls for making Mexican dishes with winter squash: a fun, if not authentic, challenge.
I tried a recipe for enchiladas before that used only winter squash, peppers, and garlic as the sauce. But it was a bit dry and “squashy” for me. This time, I put into the blender cooked winter squash, some hot peppers, and some tomatoes. Inside the flour tortillas, I used leftover venison taco meat and the last bit of the purple cabbage and green tomato salsa, rolling the tortillas tightly into the pan. I spread them with a can of un-healthy, fattening, non-organic cream of mushroom soup, just because I love the flavor it adds to my enchiladas! Then I topped them with a generous amount of blended squash, peppers, and tomatoes (all grown organically, of course), making sure the sauce made it down in between and below the individual enchiladas.
Smothered in cheese and cooked ‘til bubbly and slightly browned, it was moist and delicious!
Posted November 9th, 2009.
Our favorite tomato soup recipe turned out extra-pretty this week with the
addition of yellow heirloom tomatoes.
It's a simple recipe: just saute diced onion and garlic in butter. Then add
diced tomatoes and a bit of beef broth, then salt, pepper, thyme, and
parsley to taste. Simmer for a few minutes and it's the perfect side to go
with grilled cheese sandwiches or any Italian meal!
Posted November 4th, 2009.
Have you ever tasted homemade tomato sauce? From tomatoes grown in the dirt around your home. Tomatoes that have been chopped on your kitchen counter. Tomatoes that have simmered for hours on your kitchen stove. Until the extra liquid has evaporated and the tomatoes have reached the smooth perfection of…homemade tomato sauce.
Last week I made homemade tomato sauce. Then I diced up a leftover chicken breast (from a whole chicken that had boiled on my wood stove in a cast iron pan), and tossed it with pasta, artichoke hearts, mozzarella cheese chunks, and some Italian herbs. Topping it with my homemade tomato sauce, making sure some cheese was near the top to peek its way through, I popped it in the oven.
The bubbling and browned delight that came out was absolute perfection. Most especially because of the homemade tomato sauce.
Posted October 28th, 2009.
And we have all the fruits and vegetables for the taste of autumn at the Front Porch! Winter squash and pumpkins for pies and savories. Apples and pears for canning and crisps. Onions and potatoes and carrots (and lots more!) for everything in between. Stop in for a taste of autumn…
Posted September 26th, 2009.
…that our corn is pretty yummy-tasting this summer!
Posted August 12th, 2009.
