Sustainable Gardening and Creative Food
How to Bring Tomatillos Tangy Goodness to the Kitchen
Tomatillos are for more than Salsa Verde Tomatillos are a fun plant to grow in the garden and an awesome, tangy addition to dishes from your kitchen! They make way more than just Salsa Verde — although there certainly is nothing wrong with that…
Quince – An Unusual Beauty
Quince is a fruit that is kin to a pear but more exotic. The tree keeps to a modest size with beautiful pale pink flowers in spring and golden fruit in the fall. But where quince really shines is in the kitchen. Quince in…
Final gifts of summer
The garden has its autumn look about it. There is carnage among the sunflowers. We had four separate storms this summer and early fall that came weeks, even months apart but each took their toll. The last one was the final straw. The downed…
Raspberries Glow like Rubies in the Garden
Raspberries glow like red, red rubies peaking through the green leaves. But beware the wicked thorns on these plants as you reach in to coax the fruit off the vines! They taste sweet and tart and are nothing like what you will find in…
Spring is on the way!
Spring is definitely trying to come early this year. It’s still February but lots of daffodils are up, birds are taking on their spring mating colors, the maple trees are a haze of red waiting to burst forth and that means…it’s time to plant…
Winter in the Garden Warming Stock in the Kitchen
Mulching is an essential fall/winter garden task that makes life easier in the spring and helps build good soil. Fortunately winter has been mostly mild in my area so far. Fortunately — because I am soooo late in getting my garden beds mulched for…
Success with Chocolate Peppers
Chocolate Peppers came in strong in the garden this year. Nope. They’re not actually chocolate. Wouldn’t that be nice! Growing ready to eat chocolate straight from the garden bed!! (Milk chocolate or dark?) But seriously! Chocolate peppers are a type of bell pepper that…
Easy to grow and cook beans!
Green Roma beans, yellow beans and edamame. All did really well this year and tasted unbelievable! Fresh from the garden. So tender. What joy! Unlike the peas I grew earlier this spring, the flowers on my beans were not as pretty. But the plants…
A bowl full of sour cherries!
A bowl full of sour cherries is a beautiful thing! And the cherry tree in bloom is even more beautiful!! My husband was not a huge fan of cakes and never wanted one for his birthday but he loved a sour cherry pie. When…
Peas in the Garden – Pasta Primavera in the Kitchen
The peas are just beginning to produce their first tender pods and the strawberries are giving me enough fruit for a bowl with breakfast about every three or four days. Their bounty heralds a swift pick up in the pace of the garden. Seasons change…