Lovely, delicious beets
There are so many ways to prepare beets and this is the easiest: Rinse excess dirt off three or four beets. Place the whole beets in a...
Don't toss that squishy fruit, make compote!
Yes, I'm posting again about the joys of making and eating compote. With the abundance of delicious fruit this season, sometimes I get a...
" Cupcakes White" Cosmos bipinnatus
I love to plant cosmos every year. They are native to the southwestern US and Mexico, and provide nectar and pollen to bees and...
Amazing artichoke recipe by April Bloomfield
This is the best artichoke recipe I've ever tried so far. Yet another new taste experience inspired by April Bloomfield! Note: In April's...
Delicious veggie recipes by April Bloomfield
Crushed spring peas with mint, Pan-roasted carrots and asparagus with Carrot-Top Pesto and Burrata, with pan fried rock cod Last weekend...
Must read!
Did you know that the top shelf of your refrigerator is the warmest and the lowest shelf is the coldest? Or how to interpret the "sell...
Mission figs with spring mix salad
We enjoy the figs in a salad, cut into quarters and mixed with arugula or other small salad greens, and bits of Cypress Grove's Humboldt...
Early autumn pasta with pesto
As you know from earlier posts, I love basil. And I love to use it for pesto in pasta, rice, or on baked fish. Here is a bowl of farfalle...
Basil, basil, basil !
Genovese basil I always grow basil in backyard container pots every summer because I just LOVE basil! And I particularly love Genovese...
Sauteed green beans and brown mushrooms with pesto
Green beans are in season! Since I still had a small bag of brown mushrooms that I bought the previous week from the Farmers Market I...
