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20.09.16 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Homesteader Heirloom Apples and Real Cider

Food + Landscape Trees + recipes

The Renaissance of Heirloom Apples Traditionally, an old fashioned fall treat has been the availability of aromatic autumn apples and the rich complex flavor of pressed cider. Although grocery stores attempt to carry “cider” in pasteurized containers all year, the taste is insipid in comparison to the special flavor that blended heirloom varieties give to…

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tomatoes

18.08.11 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Good Reason To Eat Locally Grown Tomatoes

recipes + tomatoes

If you weren’t convinced already, the truth about your store bought, commercially grown tomato is out and being broadcast. Everything You Wanted To Know About Tomatoes But Were Afraid To Ask gives everyone a heads up on the new book, Tomatoland, by Barry Estabrook If ever there were a plethora of reasons to grow your…

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13.10.10 | Ilona Erwin | 1 Comment

Alisa Barry of Bella Cucina Features Branzini Baked Cod & Salsa Verde on…

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Delicious light cooking is in season for both fall as well as springtime. I always look for fish dishes I think my family will eat. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ // ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~© 2010 written for Ilona’s Garden Journal. Copyrights apply.

06.10.10 | Ilona Erwin | 2 Comments

Rossella’s Salad

Food + recipes

Here is the link to Rossella’s Salad with the figs and fennel. She is undoubtedly a better cook than me, but I think I would lightly braise the fennel. Rocket is not widely available here, but baby spinach is, and I would use that. Rossella’s Simple but Wonderful Salad. *Note to self: arugula is probably…

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14.10.09 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Not the Candy Apples I Remember!

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But quite beautiful in their own way. From Matt Bites clipped from mattbites.com I walked back into the kitchen to find the most beautiful candied apples before me.  Black glossy cinnamon-scented candied glass enveloped small apples, twigs became their handles, and a few shockingly red candied apples only made their black counterparts more ominous. It…

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06.08.09 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Zucchini Days

recipes + Vegetable garden

Muum‘s got a bunch of zucchini posts going- with recipes and a reminder that Saturday is National Leave a Zucchini on your Neighbor’s Porch day.

28.06.09 | Ilona Erwin | 8 Comments

Winding up the Month of June

2009 + June + recipes + summer

The GGW contest for rose photos has announced the winners, and they are truly beautiful shots of a flower that is so beloved that there are millions of photographs taken of it, in all its glory and variation. Sample a few. No, I didn’t win anything… but I gained more than enough from the inspiration…

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30.09.08 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Apple Recipes

autumn + recipes

Kathy has some diverse and great sounding recipes for your apple harvest (or those from the local farm market), “Our best apple recipes” from “Purdyville”. I posted my own favorite apple cake recipe in 2006. Take a look @ Hungarian Apple Cake; and better yet, treat yourself to some. Technorati Tags: apple recipes,

18.09.06 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Autumn Abundance Recipes

autumn + Home stuff + recipes

Autumn provides an abundance of certain foods … and besides, the change of season just makes us hungry for those apple desserts and tomato-laced stews. The sweet peppers are becoming red and we all have our favorite culinary uses for those. I thought I’d share some of mine. My favorite apple cakes are the Hungarian…

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