We used a pumpkin from a produce swap, spices and olive oil. That's it!
Recipe: Spicy Roasted Pumpkin Wedges
Fall isn't fall without pumpkins, and this recipe for Spicy Roasted Pumpkin Wedges really brings fall into focus.
Salad Leaf Basil
Recipe: Spring Pea Soup with Pesto Goat-Cheese Tartines
This recipe for Pea Soup with Pesto Goat-Cheese Tartines is the reason for making pesto now, and freezing it for winter or spring. As the title implies, spring peas are the main character in this dish.
Chili flakes cling to the beans as they are stir fried.
Recipe: Stir Fried Long Beans
Whether you call them Green Pod Red Bean Long Beans, or Asparagus Beans, or Chinese Yard-Long Beans, one thing is for sure: they are tasty!
The finished cake is dusted with powdered sugar. We crushed some of the berries in the sauce as well.
Recipe: Blackberry Polenta Cake
If you are up to your eyeballs in blackberries, here is the recipe for you. This blackberry polenta cake uses 4 cups of blackberries between the cake and the sauce. And it's delicious!
Serve in tiny bowls with cardamom sprinkled on top, or straight out of the pint.
Recipe: Meyer Lemon Cardamom Ice Cream
We discovered this recipe for Meyer Lemon Cardamom Ice Cream after coaching a client on how to prune her lemon trees.
An abundant harvest of yellow crookneck squash sent us hunting for a recipe.
Recipe: Yellow Squash Soup
When summer squash is in season, we're always hunting for recipes to use the abundant harvest. This recipe for yellow squash soup does the trick.
Tasty and easy to make in about 30 minutes.
Recipe: Mini Pumpkin Sage Balls
'Tis the season for pumpkin everything, so these mini pumpkin sage balls are perfect for quick snacks or appetizers during the holidays. We've had this recipe sitting around since 2010 and finally got around to making them. You can make your own pumpkin puree to use in this recipe, or just grab a can (we did, since we're eating all our home-grown squash in solid form this year). The result is quick and easy, not to mention tasty. Mini Pumpkin…
A bounty of tomatoes including Michael Pollen (green pear), Roman Candle (yellow roma), Sunrise Bumble Bee (striped cherry), and Green Cherokee (green beefsteak).
Things to Do with Tomatoes
If we're lucky as gardeners, we arrive at mid-summer with a burden of "too many" tomatoes. There is no such thing, really, but there is an urgency about what to do with them before they spoil in the summer heat. Here are some of our favorite recipes to enjoy, can, and use up your tomato harvest. A bounty of tomatoes including Michael Pollen (green pear), Roman Candle (yellow roma), Sunrise Bumble Bee (striped cherry), and Green Cherokee (green beefsteak). Tomato…
We used Cocozelle Italian zucchini - cool stripes!
Recipe: Baked Parmesan Zucchini Bites
Whether you are sick of zucchini yet or not, we've discovered a recipe that will make you fall in love with this ubiquitous vegetable all over again. Any recipe with 2 ingredients is our kind of recipe. If it's any indication of how good these are, I have zero photos to show for my efforts. They were gone in minutes, before I could snap a shot. So, turn on the oven, get out your mandoline or a sharp knife and…
Still life with celeriac
From Harvesting Celeriac to Celeriac Soup
We grew celeriac for the first time this winter, inspired by a celeriac soup we tasted a couple years ago. It grows like celery but the part you eat is underground, rather than the stalks above. Don't get me wrong, the whole plant is edible, but celeriac was bred for the root, so that's our focus today. Celeriac is ready to harvest around the same time as celery. The identifying factor is when the shoulders of the root are visible…