Write my daughter a blank check and she’d be grilling ribeye steaks for dinner every night. But sometimes the best we can do is grassfed hamburger from the beef herd at our local dairy. Daughter moans and rolls her eyes because we don’t use buns with our burgers. But look here: She devised her own […]
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Sometimes, you just don’t want to cook anything. I foraged this end-of-summer meal on short notice: assorted tomatoes from the farmers market, dressed with olive oil and tarragon vinegar, shredded mozzarella cheese and a chiffonade of basil; a cucumber from the garden, seasoned with salt, white wine vinegar and dill; a very ripe cantaloupe, cut into […]
Tags:picky eaters
We planted amaranth in the kitchen garden for show again this year. Their big, red tassles of grains make a big display. But we ready needn’t have spread new seed. There was plenty already in the ground from last year, as it turned out. We had so many volunteers that you could hardly see where we’d planted the […]
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