While pumpkin season may be upon us – I have seen them, they are ripe, and people are buying them – as is also the case for all of the delightful winter squashes that I do, indeed, love, I’m not ready for them just yet. At least not while our garden is still producing tomatoes… Continue Reading
Whole Grains Month + a contest
Not just any contest. Oh no. This is a contest that involves healthful eating, and cash and whole grain goodies for the winner, plus voting for a new favorite whole grain recipe (that’s how you enter to win the cash and goodies), which, I’ll be perfectly honest, I hope is this Wild Rice and Fall… Continue Reading
This week in the garden – end of August: tomatoes and sunflowers
We wait all year for this moment in the garden, and finally, it’s here. The blackberries are still – still! – producing, if only barely. Between our neighbors next door and us, we’ve picked them pretty clean, though there will barely be a moment to be sad when their season has gone by because now,… Continue Reading
Tips for Harvesting Blackberries
It’s still blackberry season at our house. Just yesterday afternoon, as our neighbors very kindly handed JR a half-dozen ears of (very sweet and delicious) corn from their garden, the three of them waxed on about how many freaking berries there are this year. The canes around our garden abut their hay field, and so… Continue Reading
Blackberry Crumble
You know how you don’t arrive at someone’s house without a gift – food or otherwise? Yes, well, my dear friend, who I’ve known since she was four and I was five, has been visiting her mother in New Hampshire from her home in Ireland this summer. Obviously, as she lives in Ireland, and we… Continue Reading