Seasonal Appetizers from the Pantry

Join me at The Plant-Stand in Costa Mesa for our last class of the year! We’ll be sharing some tips and tricks for creating great seasonal appetizers from your pantry…

How To Make Gravy

How To Make  Gravy (Easy Peasy)     There are two methods to making a smooth and easy gravy. It’s much easier if you prepare or purchase a good turkey…

How to Stock your Pantry – the First Time

Why Stock your Pantry – and what the heck does that mean anyway? Moving into your first home, whether a house or an apartment, shared or alone, it can be…

Temecula Olive Oil Cooking Classes

Jan. Demo Class Thursday Jan. 16th 6:30 – 8:30 Temecula Olive Oil Company’s Seal Beach Tasting Room 148 Main Street, Seal Beach $35.00 Pre-paid reservations only, please call (562) 296-5421 Menu…

Happy Halloween

On All Hallows Eve……. Just back from our Fall Farm, Food and Wine Tour to Cambria and Paso Robles we’d like to share some of the wonderful Scarecrows of Cambria!…

Apple Harvest

As summer begins to fade away and the feel of fall comes creeping in so does some wonderful fruit, pomegranates, all kinds of citrus, apples and eventually pears. Have you…

What do you do with a bumper crop of tomatoes?

I usually freeze my tomatoes until I have time later to make sauce, ketchup or just can some chopped tomatoes for later use. (I freeze them by washing and drying…

What's In Your Pantry

Summer Pantry

Summer Pantry Summer is the time that I am refilling my pantry with my own canned goods, jams, brandied fruit, pickle relish, and all kinds of pickled fruit and vegetables.…

Growing & Decorating Gourds & Pumpkins

Dress Your Pumpkin Contest! Dress your pumpkin with anything but no carving allowed. Pumpkins must come ready to go, no primping on site! Saturday October 26th 10 am The Plant…