Two days ago, I planted half of the hardneck garlic I intend to put in this year. I had chosen a bed that hadn’t held any last season and yanked out the desiccated tomato plants (we picked our last green ones, which are turning red on the porch as I write, about five days ago)Continue reading “Planting Garlic in Faith”
Category Archives: Weekend Cooking
Pulling Supper Off The Shelves
One of the reasons I love to can is the bounty you end up with in the dead of winter. As long as there are jars of last year’s produce safely tucked away on the pantry shelves, I feel safe (smug even) when the weatherman starts talking about Snowmageddon and urges everyone to rush outContinue reading “Pulling Supper Off The Shelves”
Zucchini Latkes Recipe
This is for Bonnie, who asked for the recipe after I mentioned it on Midday with Dan Rodricks a couple of days ago. sorry I don’t have a picture of the finished product for you, (I’m currently thinking about ice latte for breakfast), but if I did, it would be little pancake-y things browned withContinue reading “Zucchini Latkes Recipe”
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”
Turnips for The Year of The Root Crop
I don’t really know who makes these declarations — I hope they don’t clog up an already clogged Congress to get something like The Official Year of The Root Crop powered through — but it is, officially, somehow, The Year of The Root Crop. It’s a good thing, since little by little, we as aContinue reading “Turnips for The Year of The Root Crop”
Winter Squash and Roasted Vegetable Soup
My summer squash did diddly this year — I planted seeds three times and three times the critters ate the plants before they could get to any size at all. Fortunately, I managed to grow some winter squash, started from the saved seed of an Iranian and a long neck pumpkin of two IContinue reading “Winter Squash and Roasted Vegetable Soup”
Comforting Casseroles
In the sixties we had casseroles with cream-of-something soups –tuna-noodle casserole with cream of celery, chicken and cream of mushroom, turkey tettrazini (exotic, since you add sherry instead of milk), ground beef and noodle with cream of tomato. Fast. Easy. Yummy. Casseroles are comfort food. They’re stress reducers because they’re easy to make and theyContinue reading “Comforting Casseroles”
Nancy Taylor Robson 