Throughout spring and summer we prepared fresh salsa about once a week- sometimes even more. As fall set in I noticed that we had not been making fresh salsa nearly as much, although we have been making many meals that are naturally complimented by salsa. We started to miss it. With busy lives and produce…
Pepper Powder
This year our porch garden had 5 pots of various peppers: jalapeño, red chili, habanero, serrano, & ancho. We used about 40 of our red chilies to make chili garlic sauce and had well over 60 more peppers to use! Many peppers were used fresh throughout the summer but whatever was left at the end…
Garden Update
A lot has happened in the garden since the last post in July. We are now at the beginning of September and the air is already starting to feel like fall. What a strange summer it has been here in Chicago and I’m assuming in most places. It has been unseasonably cool with about a…