It is really amazing what a 32 square foot garden can produce. This year our garden went wild in greens. We planted several leafy lettuces, chard, collards, kale, two kinds of spinach, arugula, bib lettuce, romaine lettuce and radishes. The more traditional stuff is 3 kinds of yellow squash, zucchini, golden beets, carrots, lemon and [...]
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A good green bean salad can be taken to any summer event and enjoyed without a problem of spoiling if you don’t use mayo or eggs or other protien. The beans are harcort verts or skinny French green beans. This salad is good warm or room temp, cold, not so much. So, the perfect salad [...]
We planted some collards, kale, radish and salad spinach this year for the first time and, even though we planted each in a 1 foot square plot, we got a really good crop. We harvested the salad spinach last week, the radishes two weeks ago and since and the collards for the first time this [...]
On a whim, we bought a pound of steamer clams on Sunday at the Farmer’s Market. I had a recipe in mind to try from a Ming Sigh episode on ginger & cream. It was a good recipe with mussels, I adjusted here and there and used half & half instead of heavy cream, added [...]
This is one of the wonderful things that Alice Waters brought to California. A simple French tart with fruit. There are so many great cooks that made this kind of a recipe possible. I see Fannie, Julia and James here, too. Easy to make and easy to eat. Oh, get the best apples you can, [...]