I had a nice little harvest last weekend. More salad greens, some garlic (which will need to cure for a while), plenty of herbs, and two baby beets. This year I planted a variety called Cylindra, which is a long skinny red beet. I figured that would be a good space-saver. (I also planted golden [...]
Posts Tagged ‘salad’
First Home-Grown Beets of the Season
Posted in Food, Gardening, tagged bacon, beets, goat cheese, salad, salad greens on June 9, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Round-the-Calendar Salad
Posted in Food, tagged beets, pickles, pickling, salad on May 10, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I’ve got lots of salad greens coming out of my garden now. In fact, last week’s heat made the arugula bolt, although I think I was able to pinch enough off to keep some plants going. But the rest of the lettuce is doing fine, so I’m enjoying some nice salads these days. Just to [...]
Out with the old, in with the new
Posted in Food, Gardening, tagged pickles, preservation, salad, swiss chard on April 13, 2010 | 3 Comments »
If you preserve your own produce, it’s easy to hang onto things too long because each item seems “special.” I mean, you can’t just open that jar of pickles for any old occasion, right? And don’t you realize how precious that frozen bag of blanched Swiss chard is?!! This is how I ended up with [...]
Hidden Delights
Posted in Food, Gardening, tagged kale, salad, salad greens, snow, winter on December 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »
When I was out at my garden this weekend, I was amazed to discover how much of my bed of greens and kale had survived under the snow. Check it out! Once I cleared all the snow away, there was actually a lot of baby salad greens that were totally fresh and tender. I got [...]
The Garden Nourishes
Posted in Food, Gardening, tagged pesto, salad, sun-dried tomatoes on November 13, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Last night I made a nice little dinner for myself. I had a nice salad of fresh fall greens from my garden and a bowl of pasta with home-grown pesto, topped with my own sun-dried tomatoes. It got me thinking about what growing my own food has meant this year. It makes food so much [...]
Transcontinental Treat: Mexican Sour Gherkin and Cherry Tomato Salad
Posted in Food, Recipes, tagged cherry tomatoes, DC, mexican sour gherkins, Olympia, Recipes, salad, smoked salmon, tomatoes on July 22, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Remember when I made a smuggled “local” cherry pie a continent away from the cherry tree? Well, fruit and vegetable smuggling can go both ways. Before leaving DC on Saturday I stopped by my garden plot to do some last-minute watering, and while there I harvested a few handfuls of cherry tomatoes and Mexican Sour [...]
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