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Summer Squash Carpaccio

July 8th, 2010 · 1 Comment · garden, Recipes

My wife has a problem with summer squash. She doesn’t like it cooked. It’s a textural thing. So in our house when we harvest one of our big, Italian summer squash (Costata Romanesco), we make this refreshing raw salad. Slice the squash very thinly and shingle the slices on a plate or platter. Dress with […]

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The Freshest Green Beans

July 7th, 2010 · 4 Comments · garden, Recipes

On May 21, we planted one of our vegetable beds with three different varieties of bush beans. Some of the Contender beans were ready to pick last night so daughter and I plied through the plants looking for dinner. These beans were so tender and succulent, I could not possibly subject them to my favorite […]

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