Cabbage Muthias

Our ongoing effort to use up the bounty of cabbages harvested this winter continues. This week, try this recipe for cabbage muthias, an Indian
spiced dumpling that is sure to please.

The recipe recommends using Bob’s Red Mill Garbanzo & Fava Flour, but I didn’t have that, so I used straight Garbanzo flour. I suspect that the dumplings would have held together better during
the process of making them. The end result held together fine, and tasted …

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Services – Garden Maintenance

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Cabbage and Caramelized Onion Soup

‘Tis the season to harvest cabbage, and we’ve been on a campaign to find tasty uses for it this month. Our crop consists of Vertus Savoy
cabbage (with seeds from Bountiful Gardens). It grew well in Southern California, and it was a delight to finally be able to grow an open-pollinated variety of savoy cabbage (hard to find).
 

Here is another savory and delicious way to incorporate this healthy brassica …

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Tasty Cabbage Season

It’s time to harvest those cabbages that have been growing over winter. As readers may remember, we planted a newly discovered variety of open
pollinated Vertus savoy cabbage from Bountiful Gardens this past fall, and now we’re reaping
the benefits. It’s hard to find an open pollinated or heirloom variety of savoy cabbage, so we were very excited to test this one out.

The results are in, and they …

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The Trick to Bigger Garlic

A question came in to Ask Gardenerd this week:

“Hi, I’ve just harvested my garlic and it’s ok but a little small. Any tips to get it fatter. John, ps Love your site”

Thanks for writing in John, and I’m glad you like the website. Since your email address seems to be in Australia, it makes sense that you would be harvesting garlic right now.

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Thanksgiving in Rome – a Farmers’ Market Oasis

It might seem odd to go to Europe to celebrate an American holiday, but when your American relatives live there, Thanksgiving must travel.

One of the benefits of traveling to other countries at different times of the year is getting the chance to see foreign vegetables and fruits of the season. We visited Umbria, Italy in May of this
year and found some beautiful offerings there. Our visit to Rome this November
offered even more.

Campo dei Fiori’s …

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