It’s that time of year again. I was working in the Washington Youth Garden on Tuesday and Chris, the garden manager, urged me to try some of the asparagus that is beginning to poke through the soil. There’s hardly anything better than snapping off an asparagus spear right out of the garden and eating it […]
I’ve had my near-death experience with rhubarb. When I was a boy, my father cleared a place for a garden behind our home outside Chicago. One day I came up behind him while he was spreading cow manure for the rhubarb bed and caught a tine from his pitchfork right between the eyes. There was […]
Greens overwintered in our garden and from the CSA box, boiled and seasoned with cider vinegar. Baby rutabaga and turnip overwintered in the garden. The end of a grilled pork tenderloin and cranberry relish from Thansgiving. The root vegetables had been previously picked, peeled and boiled in lightly salted water, then stored in the regrigerator. […]
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