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Green Bean Plenty 23 Jul 2013 | 12:00 am
Mid-July brings a harvest of green beans (some call them "string beans") that moves rapidly into the "embarrassment of riches" period. After the first several meals of simply prepared beans (I usuall...
Summer Beet Soup (Borscht) 15 Jul 2013 | 12:11 am
Beets were the bane of my childhood. They were one of those "no redeeming virtue" foods and I hated the smell of them cooking. Whether simply boiled or with sickening sauce ("Harvard Beets" were a p...
Peppers to Brighten the Winter 5 Jan 2013 | 10:20 pm
When I was growing up in the South, there were two kinds of hot pepper sauce that we used. One was Tabasco or one of its imitations. The other was a bottle of hot peppers in vinegar with a dispenser...
A Season for Scallions 1 Dec 2012 | 04:03 am
Yesterday (two days before the end of November) I harvested the last of my scallions (green onions). I might have left them even longer but snow is predicted, and the ground is beginning to freeze. ...
Using Root-cellar Cabbage 7 Feb 2012 | 07:34 am
Cabbage has been a consistent theme here, both because it is such a satisfying crop to grow, and because it has so many uses. In The Cabbage in Winter, I commented on some recipes for using cabbage, a...
In A Pickle 27 Sep 2010 | 08:13 am
So why haven't I posted on my garden and food blog for a full year? Because I've been too busy gardening and preserving. We expanded our vegetable garden last year (to about 2,000 SF) and it has now b...
An Early Frost 20 Oct 2009 | 03:05 am
Fall is a bit of a melancholy time in the garden, especially after the first frost when it is time to take out dead plants. I don't know what our "standard" first frost date is around here but to my m...
The Terror of Tomatoes: So Much of a Good Thing 22 Sep 2009 | 02:01 am
It's fortunate that we choose not to remember unpleasant things and that we compartmentalize memories. Otherwise, we might never order so many garden seeds. We'd look at those lovely pictures and thin...
Mon Petit Chou 13 Aug 2009 | 02:14 pm
Not for nothing do the French use cabbage as a term of endearment. Cabbage is an enormously solid and reassuring vegetable that has provided good nutrition for the humanity of the world. It is product...
A Bad Year for Garlic 28 Jul 2009 | 08:21 am
Last year's harvest of garlic, my first, was very successful. We ate our homegrown garlic all winter, right up to mid-June, when I reluctantly bought one head of store-bought to see us through to harv...
