Yesterday was the first day of the Lunar New Year, also known as Chinese New Year and Spring Festival. I have enjoyed cooking special foods for this holiday for the last couple of years, and this year I was more excited to cook last night’s fortuitous dinner even more than before. 2012 is the Year of the Dragon, my sign, considered the most powerful and More
My tomatoes are a bust, but so what? I am drowning in cucumbers. At this point, we have eaten cucumber, in one form or another, everyday for the last four weeks. We do love them year round, but in the summer nothing beats their refreshing flavor, toothsome crunch, and recipe versatility. I have been getting creative with cucumbers and I have come up with some More
It really could have been the best garden ever, but alas, I have fallen short again. The biggest disappointment was that the potatoes in the PVC containers didn’t form, that experiment failed. So did the onions in containers. I think I planted too many in the same pot, so they stayed small. The leaves have wilted to nothing, so I am harvesting “pearl” sized onions, More
April was just such a hectic month around here that I barely had time to get the garden going, but not to write about it. First, the last of the winter garden has been harvested, processed and eaten. Lots of spinach, Swiss chard, snow peas, parsnips and beets have been gracing the table. Tonight’s dinner features a roast chicken with the last of the parsnips. More
Our second annual New Year’s Eve dinner and dance party turned out to be delicious and fun. It stared with a bit of work, as planned, cleaning the garden as best as possible and harvesting things we wanted to use or needed to be picked. I grabbed some of the ‘Early Wonder’ beets, which have proven to be some of my favorites. The roots are More