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What’s for Breakfast

June 28th, 2010 · No Comments · breakfast, garden

Beef tongue with garden salad and onions Preparation time: 10 minutes Shopping: none I love, love, love beef tongue, first brined then slow cooked with leeks and garlic and herbs in a pot of water on the stove. It makes a great breakfast re-heated, especially over freshly picked salad greens tossed simply with olive oil […]

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Rutabaga Souffle

June 28th, 2010 · No Comments · garden, Recipes

Could there be a more maligned vegetable than the rutabga? Most people don’t even know what it is. Cousin to the turnip, it’s bigger and yellower. Some people call it “Swede.” We call rutabaga sublime, especially after it’s been souffled. We hold a great deal of affection for this recipe from the February 1991 issue of […]

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Crazy for Cucumbers

June 24th, 2010 · 2 Comments · garden

How many cucumbers can one family eat? We may soon find out. Somehow I’ve collected seed packets for eight different varieties of cucumbers–three slicing, five pickling. There was nothing to do but plant some of each to see how they all compare. Where the snap peas once stood, we now have a long row of […]

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