Holy smokes, folks. When I say that homemade tortillas are amazingly good and are also easy to make, I am not fooling. Of late, I’ve been on a bit of a flatbread kick. Grilled breakfast pizzas, grilled pizza dough crackers with Pecorino Romano sprinkled over top, and now, tortillas. If you’ve been reading along here… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Recipes
Neighborhood Microclimates and a Use for Slightly Larger Than Shallot-sized Onions
Much of gardening theory – and therefore growing theory – is laid out before us in the pages of helpful and sometimes gorgeous gardening books, though, wine nerd that I am, I also find the wisdom of wine growers may be parlayed into the home garden. Smaller yields often result in better quality, keeping an… Continue Reading
Lime Icebox Pie: A Cloves and Cream guest post
My friend Laura of Cloves and Cream wrote this guest post for a quick and tangy pie that just happens to keep with the resourceful Poor Girl Gourmet theme. Coloring inside the lines was never for me. Perched at the sun bleached yellow formica table in my great-grandmother’s kitchen I would scribble wildly, weaving in… Continue Reading
A Quick Bread of the Highest Order: Zucchini Pesto Bread
It’s difficult to determine whether or not this has been a successful summer for our zucchini plants. On the one hand, my early bug smooshing efforts paid off with a bounty of blossoms for stuffing and frying. On the other hand, the squash bug nymphs that emerged from the eggs that I missed appear to… Continue Reading
Rescued Tomato Crostini
While it may seem to some that it’s all just chicken slaughter and hijinks over here at my house, we’ve actually been dealing with a slaughter of a different kind over the last month or so. I noticed the first yellowing leaves with brown spots on my gloriously full, abundantly-producing tomato plants late-July. Being sort… Continue Reading