Enjoy the taste of fresh tomatoes all year round with my best homemade salsa recipe for canning. You might also like my easy chili rellenos recipe! With tomatoes, it’s feast or famine. In the winter, they can only be…
In the Kitchen – Easy Chili Rellenos
Easy Chili Rellenos, a Mexican favorite you can easily make at home. My Mom Is Italian. They Stuff Things. They stuff cheese into manicotti, they stuff ground beef and spinach into ravioli. And they love to stuff peppers. Most of…
Farm Stories – Love, Hate, The KKK and Perogies
Rural people are self-sufficient. They keep to themselves. They don’t have block parties, because they don’t live on blocks. They are patriotic and fiercely respect everyone’s right to freedom and privacy. They don’t care what you do, so long as…
On the Farm – Wayward Pigs
Pigs are nature’s atomic weapons. They eat everything in sight, and can turn a lush green lawn into a post-apocalyptic wasteland in a matter of hours. You will never hear the call for “free-range” pigs. Pigs need to be penned. …
Empire of the Rising Sun – Fukui, Japan
Japan is a land of mystery. It’s about the size of California, but has over 120 million people. Almost everybody is Japanese, and can trace their ancestry back for centuries. Part of the reason is the country’s isolation. It is…
Day Tripping with Rick – Biking the Trail to Pittsburgh
As you may know, we live just south of Pittsburgh in the Youghiogheny River Valley. Our yard abuts the Yough River Trail which is a rails-to-trails project which allows us to walk and bike along the river. The trail is…
Fun with Peppers – Stuffed Banana Peppers
One of the more common peppers to be found in western Pennsylvania gardens is the the Hungarian wax, or what we call banana peppers. This is because they are long, yellow, and typically curved a bit resembling a banana. They…
Fun with Peppers – Cayennes
The most overlooked part of my pepper patch is the four cayenne plants on the end. They are scrawny compared to the rest of them, but they are in many ways the most powerful. No other pepper is hotter (in…
Fun with Peppers – Rick’s Pepper Patch
If Sheldon Cooper can do “Fun with Flags”, I can do “Fun with Peppers”. I am an avid vegetable gardener. I won’t grow anything I can’t eat, though. By far my favorite thing to grow are peppers of all sorts. …
Fun with Peppers – Shishitos
Part of my on-going series of what to do with the peppers in your pepper patch. Today we look at a great appetizer that is as easy to make as turning on the burner on your stove. Sauted Shishitos The…