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Make Your Own (Freezeable) Tomato Puree
While I wait, anxiously, for my own paste tomatoes to ripen before some sort of blight gets them (my tomatoes are abundant and my only hope left for a reasonable harvest of something this summer), my...
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Blackberry Muffins: Moist and Tart and Sweet
We finally made it down to the berry fields for blackberry season and boy am I glad we did! No butterflies were harmed in the making of these muffins The little guy picked and popped the berries...
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400th Post – A celebration because YES, I have ripe tomatoes!
This is my 400th post, which seems to be quite a lot. It’s funny how much energy you can manage to put into the things you love. Even when you don’t have any energy to spare. Another view…. So I am not...
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Long Island Organic Poultry and Egg Source – Updated for 2013
This one is for my homies: my readers here on Long Island. I welcome anyone else who has certified organic birds on Long Island to contact me so I can post it! Everyone else, be sure to click on links...
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The Garlic is Planted!
Since garlic was one of the few things we managed to grow successfully in this summer of failures, I decided we should plant more than last year. It can be tough for little hands to get the head...
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Garden Update (Whew! Maybe I wasn’t too late after all)
In the past few years I have assiduously reported on our developing vegetable garden. This year, shame and nothing doing and too busy with other stuff has kept me from sharing. These we planted back in...
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Sugar Snap Peas: Five Italian and Spanish Style Recipes You’ll Love
It is the season for sugar snap peas (Pisum sativum var. macrocarpon), and we have had a wonderful harvest of sugar snaps in our yard, and we expect more from Restoration Farm, our CSA. Almost too...
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Zucchini: 7 Superstar Supereasy Recipes
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we all love summer veggies fresh from the garden. Except — admit it! — when there are piles and piles and piles of zucchini sitting around your kitchen counters waiting for a purpose....
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Beets: A Variety Pack of Easy and Delicious Techniques
Beets are popping up in CSA boxes, farmer’s markets and gardens (except mine, because I haven’t planted any this year since I wasn’t going to be consistently available to thin and tend them). I never...
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Georgia Kalamidas’ Purslane Salad (Another weed made useful!)
We were a bit bemused to find this thick-leaved rubbery-stemmed plant called purslane (Portulaca oleracea) in our pick-up and completely unsure of how to use it. It seemed to be the exception to the...
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