Yes, this is a food related post. Look closer… can you find the honey bee? her butt sticking out from one of the snowdrops? “her” indeed… they are all “she”, you know.
ah… honey: the food of the gods! bee barf!
On warm sunny days, they fly out of the hive where the cold weather has kept [...]
Read More..>>There are indubitable signs of springs out there (besides the 2 minutes of additional daily daytime we are getting now).
For once, the snowdrops are nodding their tiny white bells in the still blustery gusts of wind and then, then!, yellow IS swelling the buds of the early daffodils. But for the ever hopeful kitchen gardener, [...]
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Those in the Washington DC area, Charlottesville area and in the Piedmont, who are interested in cooking or kitchen gardening may be want to take a look at my upcoming cookery and kitchen garden workshops in Washington, VA in Rappahannock County. Also listed on my web site here and here. [...]
Swiss Chard and Cardoon. Cardoon!!!
Since those two are not interested in mice hunting in the greenhouse (only the great outdoors)…
… we had to resort to those:
…baited with organic peanut butter - no less.
Round 2: minus 2 mice.
Ungerminated flats also moved to the house until germination and all re-seeded as necessary. I suppose that’s why I [...]
ARGGGH!!!
Swiss Chard. Round 1: Mice.
AARRGGH!!!!
E-VE-RY-SIN-GLE-ONES!!!!
Lucullus, Perpetual, Poiree a Carde Blanche de Lyon, Fordhook, Carde Blanche! AARRRRGGH!!!
So what do you do with that almost, but not quite forgotten vegetable, Jerusalem Artichokes or Sunchokes, freshly dug from the garden?
I have read that you can eat it raw, but have not tried that yet - except for a sliver to taste: it’s crunchy and mildly sweet , like a good young turnip, not [...]
I don’t know about you, but when I am home working and need a quick lunch, I want it QUICK. It’s often throwing together a green salad & omelet, or fajitas (or quesadillas), or - in winter - reheating some soup and making a sandwich (tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwich being a favorite). Sometime, [...]
Read More..>>Can you guess what this is (without hovering over it with your mouse)?
Hint: it’s not ginger.
Answer - and recipe - in the next episode.
Oh, and if you are the first person to guess right, I am happy to send you some (US only, please… but not to AK; AZ; CA nor HI ). Then [...]
I love ginger. Is there anybody who does not? I grew it one year and got the most amazingly tender and delicate roots where the skin was so thin that it was nonexistent. I had incredible ginger shoots and pickled ginger that year (note to self: need to grow ginger again this year). Where was [...]
Read More..>>That’s my little dirty secret. Dirty, because, you know, it’s not local. Shhh … don’t tell anybody. (I drink coffee too)
Use immoderately: in tomato sauce (of puttanesca inspiration); mashed in salad dressing (beyond Caesar) - really good with steamed baby leeks; cooked with Swiss chard or spinach until it has melted in; pounded [...]
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