Category: Gardening

Lots of roma tomatoes? make tomato paste!  Similar to drying basil, its super easy. Quarter roma tomatoes.  Smash a couple of cloves of garlic with the blunt side of your knife and chop with some fresh thyme.  Mix tomatoes, garlic and thyme with olive oil to coat.   Put on cookie sheet and dry in 250 degree …

I grew one basil plant this year in an effort to just see if I could.  Well, I CAN!  However, I have a LOT of it.   So much so I’ve been harvesting for weeks, huge handfuls at a time.  I even kept a basil bouquet on my kitchen counter for awhile (how very TV chef-like of me, …