Yes, we were so organized this year we already have our first pickling cucumbers of the season. As we know only too well, we will soon be inundated. These cucumber plants are stealthy fellows. No sooner have you picked a bucket of them, they are making new ones overnight. How fast can you mix salt […]
Tags:cucumbers·dill·fermentation·pickles
Fried eggs over braised greens with beef tongue. Preparation time: 15 minutes Shopping: None I recently conducted a final harvest of our spring bed of collard and mustard greens. It was quite a haul. After sauteeing an onion with bacon grease in a heavy pot, I dumped in the greens and braised them slowly with […]
This morning I picked a big bowl full of green beans, the first to mature this season. Planted May 21, these are a Blue Lake bush variety that looks awfully similar to the Italian green beans we like so much. They are flat-ish and full of meaty flavor. Just picked off the plant, they are […]
Tags:green beans·steaming·summer
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