Crock Pot Arroz con Pollo (Chicken with Rice)

 (This dish looks like it took all day to cook, no?  But it didn't!  My crock pot strikes again!)




School has started for the year.  I'd say this begins my busy season, but I was pretty busy all summer long.  However, I was home more this summer and will be home less this school year.  So this year will see heavy use of my crock pot!



To start the school year I thought a fairly spiffy

Fried Okra (Gluten Free & Vegan)

I know.  I swore I would never eat okra, and here I am posting a recipe for fried okra.  But I am a practical person, and this weekend found freshly picked okra on the counter, staring at me.  Daring me.  DH went to a friend's community garden plot to help harvest veggies and came home with the long green pods.  They were fresh, organic and free.  So I swallowed my pride and cooked okra for

Fresh Fig Jam

 

 Fresh fig jam on gluten free bread...so yummy!


I have a friend who has two enormous fig trees.  She hates those trees, does not like figs and does not harvest the fruit.  When she told me she wanted to rip her fig trees out of the ground to make room for something else I nearly had a cow.  You want to do what?  Do you know how expensive fresh figs are in the stores, and you have them for

Cinnamon Raisin Bread for the Bread Machine

The other day it occurred to me that I have not made cinnamon raisin bread in years!  How could that have happened?!  There's almost nothing that smells better than baking cinnamon raisin bread (unless it's apple pie).  As hot as it is right now, it is almost time for school to start and that means that autumn is just around the corner.  My mind is beginning to fill with all things autumn,

Fresh Black Eyed Peas

It is hot, hot, hot!  The grass is dying, trees are losing their leaves like it's autumn, and the sun on my skin really hurts in only 15 minutes.  Nothing moves around outside past noon, even in the shade.  Our one-eyed yard squirrel, affectionately named "Chomper" by the girls, has been seen laying in a crook of one of our trees, languishing in the heat, not bothering to move away from us when