Tag: Homestead Kitchen
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How Much Dried Herb Equals Fresh Herb?
We’ve all done it. You find a recipe calling for fresh herbs… and all you have is a jar of dried herbs. Or your garden is overflowing with fresh herbs while the recipe calls for dried. Can you substitute them? For ordinary culinary cooking, there’s a useful starting point. The Common 3-to-1 Rule A frequently… Read more
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What to Do With Too Many Zucchini
If you’ve ever grown zucchini, you already know. You don’t really harvest zucchini. Zucchini happens to you. You pick everything you can see and somehow return two days later to find a vegetable approximately the size of a baseball bat hiding under a leaf. So what do you actually do with all of it? Eat… Read more
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5 Ways to Preserve Fresh Herbs Before Winter
Fresh herbs are one of the easiest things to overlook when you’re rushing to prepare the garden for cold weather. Then frost arrives. And suddenly all that basil you meant to harvest is gone. Before cold weather settles in, here are five ways to preserve herbs for winter. 1. Air Dry Them Air drying works… Read more
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What to Do With an End-of-Summer Tomato Harvest
There comes a point every summer when the garden seems to decide that every tomato needs to ripen at the exact same time. One day you’re waiting impatiently for the first red tomato. A few weeks later, your counter is covered in them. That’s one of my favorite problems to have. Instead of letting an… Read more