Seafood Chili
This is the season of the dried bean. Soups, stews, chilis and chowders, and even a few salads and sides […]
Spinach and Ginger Soup
Cleansing, comforting, there’s nothing like ginger to ease you from last year to next. Restorative and regenerative as opposed to […]
Wild Rice “Salad”
Feed a few, feed a lot. After a small family dinner of roast chicken and a medley of multi-colored and […]
Dark Days 5: Sea Bass Stuffed with Tarragon-Braised Leeks
A continuing series on weekly meals that use sustainable, organic, local and ethical food during the challenging winter months. For […]
Cauliflower Soup with Bacon and Hazelnuts
I’m a great fan of Nigel Slater so whenever he comes up with an unexpected combination, I know it will […]
Roasted Cauliflower and Leek Soup with Cheese Dipping Sticks
Cauliflower is among the few local crops that astonishingly have flourished despite the horribly wet growing season that rotted the […]
More Flower Jellies: Borage and Marigold
This is a finale to three-quarters of a year of making jelly from flowers. It started with a lawn full […]
Preserving Herbs Part 9: Salt Rubs – Rosemary-Sage and Celery
Now that the local growing season is winding down, I am harvesting the remaining herbs that won’t survive the winter […]
Preserving Herbs Part 5: Syrup from our “Local Lemons”
I am resuming the series that I started last fall on various ways to preserve herbs. Last year, I preserved […]
Peppers Stuffed with Corn, Zucchini and Basil
The weather at the end of September has been warm enough for me to continue to appreciate the late summer […]
Coconut Chicken Curry and Indian-Style Green Beans with Mustard Seed
This month’s Spice Rack Challenge features mustard seeds, and while I’ve experimented with a couple of recipes for prepared mustard, […]
Pickle Projects: Garlic Scapes, Sliced Dills and Sweet-Hots
Every week for the past 6 weeks, I’ve put up a small batch of pickles and now I have enough […]
April: New Thymes
Despite the relentless winter, some of the more reliable herbs that I grow in pots have started to send up […]
Mango Salsa
While driving the other day, I listened to “A Prairie Home Companion” on NPR spoofing a marital mini-spat in which […]
Braised Belgian Endives
Belgian endive or witloof, the pale rocket-shaped bitter green, is usually served raw in salads, or in my house, as […]
December: Dark Days
By December, we sink into the dark days of late fall and winter, when the weather brings either frost and […]
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