Last night we reached into the freezer to turn a simple chicken dinner into something memorable. Under the ice cubes was a bag of heirloom Italian green beans–our favorite variety–that I harvested and froze from our garden over the summer. They’d been blanched before going into the freezer. To bring them to the dinner table, […]
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I’m a big believer in eating what’s ripe in the garden. That may mean eating lot of okra, or squash, or tomatoes at any given time. But sometimes, if your garden is as big as ours is, the amount of produce coming ripe is overwhelming. It’s times like this I wish we had a chest […]
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Our friend Larry responded to a recent post about cooking fresh green beans with an ingenious suggestion to place sprigs of fresh oregano in the cooking water. We’ve got plenty of fresh oregano in our herb bed, and last night we had a chance to try Larry’s method when we gathered with Larry and out-of-town […]
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