Help me celebrate culinary women – and win!

Little known fact, I used to blog about politics – mostly about feminism and gender issues.  Eventually I decided it was more fun to blog about food and gardening, especially since politics is my day job and I like thinking about something else in my off time. But, today, I think it’s time to do [...]

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Finally in the Black, Thanks to Some Green

Back in the spring, I decided on a particular way of putting a value on what I grow in my garden.  I kept track of what I was bringing in each week, entering in the values on a spreadsheet.  My expenses for the year are stored in the same spreadsheet.  And now, in this transition [...]

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Gimme Gazpacho

It’s such a funny time of year food-wise, because there are still all these summer fruits and vegetables around, but a lot of the fall vegetables have come to the market as well.  And I’m always tempted at this time of year to go straight for those new fall vegetables – the butternut squashes and [...]

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A Still-Life of Hidden Treasures

Beets did okay this year, especially given my lack of proper care for them.  I harvested a lot of them early in the summer, and left a lot of little weedy looking ones for later.  It didn’t look like those remainders were doing much, since the beet greens never got very big or lush.  I [...]

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This bunny likes my carrots!

This season hasn’t been great for my carrot patch.  It was too hot, and there were too many spells when it didn’t rain and I didn’t have time to water.  So my carrots never got big and juicy.  Last weekend I decided to pull up whatever little runty carrots that were left and put in [...]

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Autumn is in the air

This blog isn’t dead, and I do have a bunch of posts coming soon.  After the (amazingly successful!) DC State Fair I needed a little break, but there’s plenty going on in my garden.  In the meantime, look at this fig!  I took this shot last weekend on an absolutely perfect day for gardening.  I [...]

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