Three years ago I started looking for a food blogging event for those who garden, hunt, forage, or raise their own food, and when I couldn’t find one I decided to try starting it myself. I didn’t know if any other bloggers would be interested, but as with many things, I just kind of tossed [...]
Grow Your Own #42 Roundup
July 10, 2010 By 2 Comments
Potato Salad with Summer Herbs and White Wine Vinaigrette
July 1, 2010 By 3 Comments
For us the Fourth of July is about celebrating our nation’s heritage as well as family, friends, parades, fireworks, and of course the annual Fourth of July cookout. Our cookouts vary somewhat from year to year, but we always have some kind of potato salad for the Fourth, and this potato salad recipe is particularly [...]
Pasta with Chicken, Garlic Scapes, Tomatoes, and Basil
June 28, 2010 By 3 Comments
Mango Blueberry Salad with Ginger Vinaigrette
June 15, 2010 By 10 Comments
In 2007 we bought two blueberry bushes, the low bush variety that produces small berries like our favorite wild blueberries from Maine. We almost lost them due to flooding both the first and second year, but somehow they managed to survive, though they haven’t produced berries yet. It takes a few years for blueberry bushes [...]
Grow Your Own #41 Roundup
June 10, 2010 By 2 Comments
Strawberry Lavender Lemonade
May 27, 2010 By 13 Comments
We started growing culinary lavender in our garden two summers ago, then last summer had to move the plants to pots to make room for more vegetables. One of my lavenders didn’t fare well, but the other two were doing splendidly until the uber snow storms of 2010. They look rather spindly now, a mere [...]
Zabaglione with Strawberries and Moscato
May 7, 2010 By 4 Comments
I can’t think of Mother’s Day without also musing on strawberries, probably because the beautiful red fruits come into season around this time and they seem like such a wonderful treat after cold winters. Strawberry season is also one of my children’s favorite food times of the year and we can’t resist celebrating with luscious [...]
Roasted Tomatillo Soup with Chicken (Sopa Verde con Pollo)
March 24, 2010 By 8 Comments
We had one last bag of green tomatillos in the freezer, but I didn’t want to use them because it meant there would be no more tomatillos until late summer. After our final harvest, we froze about 12 pounds of tomatillos last fall then over the winter I experimented with soups using those frozen tomatillos, [...]
Pesto Hummus
February 20, 2010 By 10 Comments
