Good bye, peach tree. Your blossoms this year were beautiful. Good bye, fig tree, with your buds swelling just bellow the surface, ready to burst. Good bye, little apple tree. How we waited patiently each summer for your fruit to ripen. Good bye, Italian plum tree. You almost didn’t make it, but we nursed you back, […]
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Just when I thought the kitchen chaos was slowing down, my aunt gifted me a ten pound bowl of Italian prune plums from her backyard tree. Although August is gone, there are technically still several weeks of summer left in September, and this year, our weather insists that we take notice. Humid heat is hovering in the 30C (90F) range, and means that […]
There is a cool mist in the air this morning as there has been all week. It’s still warm outside, but hardly like it was in the midst of the prolific heat we had this summer. I am looking forward to cooler temperatures and light showers that come with early fall. Four weeks ago, I was dreading […]
Zucchini is something I have in abundance right now in the garden. Almost daily, we are picking slender green zucchini from the three plants we have. At least once a week, especially when we haven’t been poking around for a couple of days, we find a giant, hidden under the foliage, awaiting to be uncovered […]
Schobel Supp in low-German, or bean soup, is a food closely connected to childhood memories in my grandma’s kitchen, stirring a pot on the stove, or measuring out ingredients into a bowl. My grandma always had a collection of aprons hanging along side her fridge, and she would always let me choose which one I […]
The heat of summer has been relentless this year. We are in the middle of a record-breaking stretch of hot, dry days, and my kitchen is even hotter than outdoors! There have been pots boiling on my stove for days now, blanching, cooking, and canning my way through the beauty of our summer harvest. While our little garden does […]
I don’t know about you, but blue skies put me in the mood for eating outdoors. Maybe it’s the fresh air, or the fact that I’m not as worried about a cup spilling or our littlest throwing her plate of food on the ground… Whatever the case, we try to eat outdoors as much as […]
Today we harvested the crown jewel of our garden…. our plump, juicy, crisp Purple Russian garlic. We bought three beautiful bulbs of organic garlic from a farmer’s market five summers ago. Over that time, we have multiplied those three bulbs to just over sixty each season, for the last four seasons. Although it has one of the longest growing […]
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