With the harvest I have this year (see Too Many Tomatoes), I’ve had to look for various ways to process and preserve the massive quantities of my tomatoes this year.…

Every summer, there are a couple of things that grow incredibly well, and produce like crazy. Early in the summer came the flood of beans; now I’m dealing with almost…

I’ve been shopping at La Tapatia in Des Moines for years, and almost every time I go there, I walk by the butcher counter, which runs almost the whole length of the…