We think of potatoes mostly baked and slathered in sour cream or whipped with a big pat of butter. But they start out as a plant. And this time of year the potato plants are making a show of blooming in the garden. You have to look farily closely to see the blossoms. But our […]
What? You never heard of eggs with greens? Since we are no longer eating starchy carbohydrates this is my preferred way to serve eggs for breakfast. The greens do an excellent job of sopping up the yolks. And this time of year we get an extra kick–a spicy zing–from brassica greens such as mizuna and […]
Here’s something my wife can get really excited about: watching the little rosemary plant grow out of the stone wall on our front stoop. You might be wondering how a rosemary plant might have taken root in a crack in the wall. We’ve wondered the same thing. This is the general area of a cement […]
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