This recipe for buttermilk corn bread is one that I have made many times and it never fails to please my guests. It is moist and just delicious with a slight tang from the buttermilk that makes it a great accompaniment to any meal. Buttermilk Corn Bread is Easy and Quick to Make. To make this corm bread…
Fall and winter are the times of the year when I make soups, so I am always on the lookout for new crock pot recipes each year at this time. This creamy Butternut squash soup is my latest attempt and it was a huge hit at a dinner party this week, even with non squash…
Planting Garlic is best done if you do it in the fall. It is easy to grow and gives you bulbs to use in cooking for much of the year. Be sure to get the heads for planting from a reputable supplier. Planting garlic from the store might not grow, since it is often treated…
One of my things to do before the frost was to make sure that my caladium tubers were dug up and brought indoors for the winter. But as luck would have it, I hurt my back this fall, at the time I normally do this. I was laid up for a few weeks waiting for…
My all time favorite Christmas treats are chocolate covered Cherries. Each year, this is something that my husband buys me treat, and he also started including cookies and cream bonbons. A double delight! A Festive Treat – Chocolate Covered Cherries There is nothing quite like biting into a chocolate covered cherry. The ooey gooey center…
It is always a bittersweet time in the fall. Everything is dying back. Most of the blooms are gone and the garden has to be cleaned up and put to bed, for want of a better term. When I realized that gardening was winding down for the year, I thought of the tulips daffodils and…
It is hard to say exactly when food art, vegetable carving and other artistic ways of presenting foods first started. The origins of vegetable carving are disputed: many people believe it to have begun in Thailand 700 years ago. Others believe that vegetable carving originated in the time of the Early Chinese Dynasties, notably the …
For me, vegetable gardening means growing lots of peas. Anyone who knows me well, is aware that my all time favorite treat as a snack is fresh garden peas straight from the vines. My birthday is late in April, and each year, here in North Carolina, just about the time of my birthday, I start…
My daughter Jess loves sunflowers. This year, when I started my garden island beds, I made sure to plant them in all the beds. They have taken off and are blooming beautifully now. They attract bees like nothing else I have planted. Next year, I am going to plant sunflowers around the edges of my…
The title of this post seems obvious doesn’t it? All vegetables love sunlight – 6 to 8 hours a day is what we all strive for. Watermelons love sunlight and will grow best with this much sunlight and more. Watermelons Love Sunlight Like Most Other Vegetables But looking at my watermelon patch again today has…
Every once in a while I find something growing in my garden that I call a Mystery Plant. Right now I have a plant which has shown up in my garden in three different places. I have no idea what it is and I don’t remember planting anything like it. Name that mystery plant! Who…
I love watermelons. They are sweet, juicy, messy to eat, and remind me of summer like nothing else does. But growing my watermelons in a vegetable garden has proven to be a challenge for me. My Watermelons are Giving me the Fits! My watermelons were planted as seedlings in June and by the time I…
Social media is a large part of marketing for most websites now. Pinterest, Google Plus, Twitter and Instagram are all a good way to spread the word about new content on websites and blogs. I have just two new Facebook pages devoted to my gardening and cooking endeavors. The pages will have photos as I take them,…
These DIY hose guides are made out of short pieces of rebar with small Dollar Store balls painted in a bright orange color. They keep my hose out of the nearby vegetable garden and act as a decorative look to the garden as well. Do you have something special that you use for hose guides? …
Welcome! Many people talk about gardening on the weekends and cooking during the week. But for me, gardening and cooking are both week LONG projects. I could dig in the dirt all day long every day if I had the opportunity. I am the Gardening Cook. The Gardening Cook Welcomes you I especially love to…
