Pumpkin Cranberry Bread ..... It's a Fall thing!!!! There’s nothing that says “autumn” like pumpkin. Visually it matches the orange tones of the changing foliage. Its texture makes it a great choice for moist, filling comfort foods. Add in some cranberries and some nuts and you have one of my favorite fall baking recipes, Nutty Pumpkin Cranberry Bread. It's one my favorites because it is a tasty, quick, easy and so moist! It’s a must have on Thanksgiving Day here at the Thompson house. I love … [Read More...]
Tasty Orange Cranberry Muffin Recipe
This Tasty Orange Cranberry Muffin Recipe is big on flavor with a great texture! This is my favorite Orange Cranberry Muffin Recipe. I've tried quite a few over the years and this one is a culmination of those trials. I have taken an ingredient from here and another from there, added a couple of extra steps and came up with what I consider a superior Orange Cranberry Muffin Recipe. The sour cream in this recipe adds an extra layer of tangy flavor and richness to this recipe. Cranberries and … [Read More...]
Easy Slow Cooker Pumpkin Risotto Recipe
Slow Cooker Easy Pumpkin Risotto This wicked easy Slow Cooker Pumpkin Risotto Recipe will tale all the fear out of cooking risotto. Risotto, that yummy gourmet comfort food, has intimidated a lot of cooks, including me. After seeing an enraged, cursing Chef Gordon Ramsey throw a sauté pan full of risotto into the garbage while Hell’s Kitchen competitors look on with wide eyed shock, you definitely get the impression that you should be terrified to attempt risotto. Risotto also gets a bad rap … [Read More...]
Chunky Pumpkin Chutney …say that 3 times fast!
Chunky Pumpkin Chutney .....great way to use up pumpkins from the patch! Chunky Pumpkin Chutney ... say that 3 times fast! It's a great fall condiment and the perfect way to use up any fresh pumpkin flesh you have like from making a Jack-O-Lantern. If you don't know what a chutney is here's the scoop (no pun intended). What the heck is a Chunky Pumpkin Chutney? Technically Chutney is a sauce used in the cuisine of India that includes such forms as a spicy coconut dip, a tomato relish, a … [Read More...]
You can’t beat Pickled Beets…another day of canning!
Best Pickled Beets Recipe for your garden harvest! Today I have all my water bath canning equipment out ready to can some pickled beets. This week we can start harvesting our beets. We are guilty of sneaking a few smaller ones the last few weeks and boiling them with the greens still attached. Cooked this easy way and just served with butter, salt, and pepper on them, beets are really delicious. I love beets! In fact, I’m a big fan of all root vegetables. For me, it's the idea that they are … [Read More...]
Gardening Glut – Canning Dilly Beans- Water Bath Canning 101
Canning Green Beans to make Dilly Beans - A Water Bath Canning Tutorial Water Bath Canning isn't difficult and making this Dilly Bean Recipe is great way to use up all those green beans from the garden and learn the skill of water bath canning. This time of year it’s a race to use up the veggies that my “bursting at the seams” garden produces. There’s a limit to how much the family can eat of any one vegetable variety and still be able to use the word “variety”. Mention the word zucchini … [Read More...]
No-Bake-Blueberry-Cheesecake-Bars
Blueberry Cheesecake Bars.....yummy! It's August in Maine and the blueberry season is in its peak! The Downeast Coast of Maine (Washington County) is well known for 2 things - the Quoddy Head Lighthouse and the blueberry barrens filled to the brim with blueberry bushes, which right now are perfect for harvest. And that means its the right time for me to dig out all my blueberry recipes. No-Bake Blueberry Cheesecake Bars are a favorite this this time of year because its hot and muggy and … [Read More...]
It’s Blueberry Season in Maine…time for Blueberry Sour Cream Pound Cake!!!!!!
Blueberry season in Maine means great Blueberry Recipes! It’s Blueberry season here in Maine. In fact, down in Machias they are celebrating their annual Blueberry Festival August 18th - 19th, 2018. It is a great event with all sorts of things going on like crafts, entertainment, parades, and more. They hold it every year in mid-August so you may want to plan on joining in the fun. Click here to go to their website to check out all the events. The Machias Blueberry Festival is truly worthy of … [Read More...]
How To Cook Pork Back Ribs on Gas Grill
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #GetGrillingAmerica #GetGrillingWithSmithfield #CollectiveBias Summer is grilling season for the Thompson family! We make the best of the short northern Maine summer season by spending as much time around the pool and the gas grill as we can. On the weekends we are entertaining cooking out by the pool and that means grilling, and grilling means pork back ribs. We've perfected … [Read More...]
Best Zucchini Fritters with Dill and Chive Sour Cream Sauce Recipe
Another recipe to get the family to eat zucchini! Zucchini...........I am always looking for new recipes for it this time of the year. Our garden is bursting with zucchini! Everybody's garden is bursting with huge baseball bat sized squash! There is always someone dropping by trying to give me a bag of zucchini. It has to be the most prolific vegetable there is. Thank goodness I have an arsenal of zucchini recipes in the Thompson family recipe box. I find it a little amazing that I can … [Read More...]
Sister Jo’s Zucchini Relish- a recipe to use large zucchini
When life hands you monster zucchini, make zucchini relish! Thank God for this zucchini relish recipe. It's that time of the year when the garden is bursting with zucchini, and the family is so sick of eating it that they turn zucchini green when they hear the word. Then you discover the monster zucchinis that are the size of a baseball bat hidden under the leaves in your garden. What to do? When life hands you monster zucchini, make relish!! For relish you want lots of flesh and not the seeds … [Read More...]