Author Archives: Nancy Taylor Robson

Purple-podded Peas on Plates

It’s been a while since I managed to download photos, especially food photos since I have to remind myself to take them in the first place. Unfortunately, once I cook, I’m so focused on actually EATING, that I never think to record things until we’re stuffing the empty plates into the sink. But I didContinue reading “Purple-podded Peas on Plates”

Review of OK Now What? A Caregiver’s Guide to What Matters

Review of OK Now What? by Louise O’Brien, HomePorts, Inc. Highly Recommended “Caring for a loved on who is in the final stages of life may eventually turn into a rewarding experience but working toward this goal is loaded with difficulties, doubts and anxieties. A caregiver needs and deserves to have help at each stageContinue reading “Review of OK Now What? A Caregiver’s Guide to What Matters”

OK Now What? A Caregiver’s Guide to What Matters

What matters most when someone close to you has been diagnosed as terminal? Time and quality of life for both of you. Coping with both the practical and emotional questions of this challenging passage. We are all going to die one day, yet every death is individual — as is the walk toward that individualContinue reading “OK Now What? A Caregiver’s Guide to What Matters”

OK Now What? A Caregiver’s Guide to What Matters

Head to Wind Publishing announces the release of Ok Now What/ A Caregiver’s Guide to What Matters by longtime hospice nurse, Sue Collins, RN and Nancy Taylor Robson.  What matters most when someone close to you has been diagnosed as terminal? Time and quality of life for both of you. Coping with both the practical andContinue reading “OK Now What? A Caregiver’s Guide to What Matters”

Seeding Peas Indoors

I love peas. I enjoy frozen peas steamed barely warm or thawed and sprinkled into salads, but I especially love fresh peas plucked from their tendrilled vines, shelled and popped almost immediately into a steamer on top of a couple of lettuce leaves. Cooked until they are bright green and barely tender, then bathed inContinue reading “Seeding Peas Indoors”

Opening Jars in Winter

It may look like a science experiment but it’s actually a jar of lemon peppers  (aji limon Capsicum baccatum)– some ripe, some not so much – that I preserved in sherry last fall. The jar sits at the back of the fridge where the peppers are easy to pull out and add to all kindsContinue reading “Opening Jars in Winter”

Pumpkin Brulee Pie

I’ve done it again. Or rather, I’ve not done it – AGAIN! Taken pictures of food. We grow, harvest, cook and eat, but always, in the midst of wine and men and women, and laughter and conversation, I forget to get the digital camera out and record it for posterity, or at least for GrowContinue reading “Pumpkin Brulee Pie”

Blessings from The Compost Pile

I love compost. I do. It’s rich, dark, earthy-smelling and gives me a sense of being part of the cycle of life. It’s a great addition to the garden beds, but it’s also, often, another inadvertent growing medium – as it was for us this summer. Last fall, I bought two Long Island Cheese pumpkinsContinue reading “Blessings from The Compost Pile”

Late Summer Beans

    Yesterday I picked my first batch of the second wave of haricots verts.   I’m so excited! Slim little things hanging in clusters off a small patch of French green beans that I planted about six weeks ago in a spot that earlier in the season had held leeks.      Though truly organized gardeners usually getContinue reading “Late Summer Beans”