Aug 25, 2013 | A Gardening Life, plants I love, products I love, Reasons To Grow Your Own Vegetables, What's for dinner?
When summer squash does well the gardener is usually overrun. We look for recipes that use lots of zucchini or patty-pans and give them away to friends, coworkers and the teller at the bank’s drive-up window. But all the summer and winter squashes are prone to...
Aug 11, 2013 | A Gardening Life, Reasons To Grow Your Own Vegetables
The summer my husband and I moved to the east coast my in-laws introduced me to several delicious Italian dishes. They would arrive at our house bearing fresh mozzarella, a cold squid salad seasoned with lemon and fresh basil, and a zucchini dish that my mother-in-law...
Apr 4, 2013 | A Gardening Life, Bloggers You Can Grow That! Day, Reasons To Grow Your Own Vegetables, vegetables, You Can Grow That!
A Gardening Life – April 4 This quote is currently making the rounds: You are what you eat, so don’t be fast, cheap, easy or fake. Words to live by, and there’s no better way to take them to heart than to plant vegetables. When you grow your own food, it...
Jan 23, 2013 | A Gardening Life, Reasons To Grow Your Own Vegetables, What's for dinner?
A Gardening Life – January 23 Ok, I realize that as a homegrown vegetable leeks don’t have the same appeal as, say, tomatoes. Their fragrance isn’t as evocative of summer as basil is, and they don’t have quite the broad pick-me-at-five-and-sit-down-to-dinner-at-six as...
Dec 13, 2012 | my gardens, Reasons To Grow Your Own Vegetables, What's for dinner?
Only one quarter of the veggie garden still contains plants, and these grow thinner as we harvest. Still, to be eating from the garden on the thirteenth of December is a real blessing and we don’t take it lightly. Some of tonight’s dinner came from the...
Oct 8, 2012 | Reasons To Grow Your Own Vegetables, What's for dinner?, You Can Grow That!
The first evening fire in the wood stove calls for a warming meal from the garden. Tonight it is winter squash soup. This is an easy to make recipe that tastes like a fancy, company dish but is actually simple and quick to cook. Autumn Soup Made While Answering Email...
