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Roasted Garlic Cheddar Bread
Notes This is a no-knead bread. It makes 4 one-pound loaves. You can double it or halve it, and the bread dough will keep for about a week in the fridge. You need to roast the garlic before baking the bread. The roasted garlic recipe can be scaled up to as many bulbs...
Ohio Vegetable and Flower Seed Starting and Planting Calendar
This seed starting schedule is for a Zone 6B garden. It helps keep track of when to start seeds indoors and when to plant the seedlings outside.
How to Use First and Last Frost Dates to Plan Your Seed Starting Schedule
Knowing how many weeks you are before the first and last frost dates is important in determining both when to start your seeds and transplant seedlings outside.
What Growing Zone am I in? Ohio Plant Hardiness Zone Maps
Garden Zones for Ohio What garden zone am I in? This information will tell you what plants are hardy in your area and therefore can be grown with assurance that they will have the best chance of surviving and even thriving in your local environment. By starting with...
Lemony Catfish and Bean Stew
Ingredients 1 teaspoon dried orange peel or fresh lemon zest 2 tablespoons lemon juice 1 teaspoon paprika 3 to 4 garlic cloves, minced ¾ teaspoon each salt and pepper, plus additional to taste 4 tablespoons butter (1/2 stick) 1 pound catfish, cut into bite sized...
Colcannon with Mushrooms and Leeks
This is one of those “base recipes” I make. It’s a little different every time, depending on what ingredients I have on hand. I will note that this time I made it with roasted garlic, and that is a game changer. I served it alongside of a good kielbasa, but it also...
Clam Stuffed Mushrooms Recipe
I love clam stuffing. This recipe for portobello mushrooms with a clam stuffing works great as a main course with a salad on the side, or make it as an appetizer using the smaller crimini mushrooms. My secret ingredient is Old Bay Seasoning, which I use for...
How to Grow Corn, Beans, and Squash Together with the Three Sisters Method.
The Three Sisters companion planting method for growing maize (corn), beans, and squash was developed and used by Native Americans over a thousand years ago as a beneficial way to grow their three main agricultural crops together. They used variations on the approach...
How to Grow Garlic
I've been growing garlic in zone 6b, Northern Ohio for about 15 years, give or take a few. I currently grow a few porcelain and purple stripe hardneck garlic varieties. Some were sourced from online seed / garlic companies and growers at local farm markets, others...
Wine Cap Mushrooms in the Wood Chips!
My first experience with eating foraged mushrooms! After all this rain, I found a group of enormous mushrooms growing in the under the raspberries. Mushrooms under the raspberries! The mushrooms are around 8 to 10 inches wide and are are growing in...
Easy Corn Succotash
I'm still working out this recipe, but I'm including it anyway because I want to save the current status and ingredients list. There's a fair number of variations on succotash and I'm taste-testing my way around, to find out what works for both A) I love it and B) I...
Instant Pot Egg Bites
This makes a double batch of the easiest and oh-so-tasty reheat-able little omelets. You will need two silicon egg bite molds and a steamer rack with a handle. Quantities are inexact, as I eyeballed volumes. Ingredients 14 large eggs.Chopped veggies and/or meats,...