Fresh ginger, turmeric and galangal will transport your recipes across the Indian continent, Southeast Asia and north through Japan, Korea and China. Below are from top left clockwise fresh turmeric, galangal, and ginger. The freshest ginger from the farmer’s market. And some Ginger Turmeric tea for a Spring de-tox. The euphorbias are in bloom. […]
Homemade Organic Fertilizer
Photo: From upper left, clockwise – Bone Meal, Kelp Meal, Soybean Meal, Alfalfa Meal, Rock Phosphate, Dried Blood, Fertilizer Mix The Killing Fields. Vegans and Jehovah Witnesses should not read this post! As an ovo-lacto vegetarian, I can hardly deal with the dried blood and bonemeal myself, always wearing gloves when I handle this recipe. […]
Quinoa, Kale and Butternut Squash Patties with Beet Relish
Everybody is detoxing. Just mention the desire to give up sugar (that would be me) and everyone within earshot will chime in with what they are or are not eating. Vegetables top the charts, mostly raw (no, but thank you anyway) with some taking drastic action and reducing intake to only vegetables and fruits with […]
Cheesecake with Raspberry Sauce
30 years to this day. It was a Friday the 13th. I knew Lewis was going to propose to me the next day, Valentine’s Day. We were going upstate to look at property in Sullivan County and I had planned and prepped an elaborate picnic lunch of Fried Chicken, French Potato Salad and Cheesecake with […]
Seed Starting
Start your engines; it’s seed starting time. This is always the most optimistic time of year for me. No weeds, except for that darn foxtail grass I never pulled and which keeps waving in the wind taunting me all winter long, the deer are hunkered down, the groundhogs and rabbits are hibernating, and,with the expectation […]
Sea Salt
Top Row: Baleine Sea Salt, Japanese Plum Salt, Matcha Sea Salt, Dried Orange Peel and French Grey Sea Salt, Himalayan Fine Pink Salt, Himalayan Pink Rock Salt Second Row: Japanese Plum Salt, Maldon, Icelandic Black Sea Salt, Fleur de Sel, Himalayan Pink Salt Third Row: Prussian Blue Salt, French Grey Sea Salt, Icelandic Black Sand […]
Satsuma Orange and Pomegranate Salad
Here’s a bright New Years’ Day Salad to freshen the morning after an evening of staying up past our bedtimes to welcome 2016. No waxing poetic or wondering how long I’ll last until breaking down from any resolutions made during a confident and optimistic mood somewhere towards the end of December. Let’s not tax ourselves […]
Late Summer Flowers
These are some of the flowers I grew for my daughter’s wedding last month. Dahlias, zinnias, and cosmos. They really come into their full glory in August and September, hanging on until the first frost. Dahlia tubers need to be dug up 2 weeks after the first killing frost and stored through the winter. No […]
Cayenne Pepper Ristra
Found some killer cayenne peppers at Nagy’s Peaches. Upon embarking on the preserving process for drying hot peppers, I looked up how to make a ristra and quickly decided to just string my cayenne peppers with a needle and twine. The guy in the video was extremely adept at tying knots but I was not […]
Lilac Simple Syrup
Lilac bushes take many years to reach full maturity and last only a few days as a cut flower. In my opinion, however – if you exclude roses, they are unrivaled for fragrance and color. So consider either planting one or scope out your neighbors yards. They were traditionally planted next to outhouses because of […]