Hearty lentil soup with collard greens
Recipe: Lentil Soup with Collard Greens
We cook from the garden around here. Whatever is coming in from "out there" determines the meal of the day. Since collard greens are finishing up, we needed to find…
Fresh Christmas Limas are incredibly delicious.
Recipe: Garlicky Fresh Christmas Lima Beans with Thyme
I've grown Christmas Lima Beans for several years and have come to love this prolific plant. The first time, we planted in spring and it grew and produced for a…
Make meals from the garden with a little planning ahead.
Shopping from your Garden
Today we are joined by Jeriann Watkins, our guest blogger. Jeriann is a writer and self-proclaimed chronic procrastinator who is trying to make her life more intentional by focusing on…
Recipe: Porcini Sea Salt (AKA cheating Williams-Sonoma)
In my 20s, when I had nothing, I drooled over Williams-Sonoma catalogs with wistful aspirations of "one day." Now many years later, stocked with a full set of cookware, I…
Packets before going into the oven - a thing of beauty!
Recipe: Seitan, Vegetables and Cracked Pepper en Papillote
New Year, new recipes to cook up home grown goodness. It's also time for quick meals that don't require a lot of work or fancy preparation. This recipe may look…
Making Ancho Chile Powder
It's important to try new things every once in a while, because that simple act of diving blindly into the unknown is the very thing that keeps life interesting. Yesterday…
Tomatoes, peppers, onion and cilantro are simple ingredients to this simple salsa
Recipe: Summer Salsa
Last month's Westside Produce Exchange was amazing. The haul was beyond belief. Each person left with a bag filled with summer produce that rivaled any farmers' market. I brought poblano…
Colors pop and flavors explode when combining green beans, eggplant and the garlic/onion/ginger mixture
Recipe: Eggplant Stir-fry with Green Beans and Cashews
It's eggplant time, so it's time to decide which side you're on: love it or hate it. If you're at all squeamish about the texture of eggplant (like yours truly)…
Home grown poblanos ready for deliciousness
Recipe: Home Grown Chili Fries (Poblano Pepper Poppers)
We're up to our ears in Poblano Peppers from our second-year pepper plant. The little guy hardly produced last year, but over winter the plant started sprouting new leaves and…
Spicy Zucchini Soup
Zucchini Overload? Spicy Zucchini Soup to the Rescue
You know the drill: you go away for a weekend and come back to baseball-bat sized zucchini. After you've given away as many as you can and your neighbors have…