The air is getting crisp and we have already had many mornings with frost, but no killing frost yet. Now is the time to begin preserving the herbs from the garden, and my very favorite way is using apple cider vinegar. The lemon thyme is blooming and I cut it back pretty hard. You can … Continue reading
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Rosemary Ranch Dressing
Would you like to know what is in Ranch Dressing? No, you don’t, and even if you did, you couldn’t pronounce it. A homemade ranch dressing is basically mayonnaise, garlic and herbs, and some sort of dairy, usually yogurt. I have trouble spelling consistently, much less being it, so my Ranch Dressing is not going … Continue reading
Methods of Preserving Herbs: Apple Cider Vinegar – Part 1
The temperature has dipped into the low 20’s in the last few nights, and I have been trying to rescue what herbs had remained in the garden. Unfortunately over this glorious summer, rooting porkers, scratching chickens or nibbling bunnies had decimated whatever produce I had, but there were a few survivors which I want to … Continue reading