Yesterday we celebrated our friend Tomeika’s twenty-seventh birthday and my wife spent the day making Tomeika’s favorite foods so we could enjoy a lovely meal together on the terrace. The menu: crab cakes, macaroni and cheese, braised kale with bacon, followed by a German chocolate cake. German chocolate cake happens to be my favorite as […]
Enough talk. Let’s eat. All told, I’ve been away from the garden a full month this season. Long enough for the cucumbers to swell to bursting, the okra to get tough as wood, the beans to shrivel on the vine. But last night we cut through all the whining, determined to make a meal of […]
A few snips here, a few snips there, and in just a few minutes we have a bowl full of kale, enough to feed four easily. This is the kale I planted September 20 of last year. The variety is called Red Russian and it survived a balmy December and January, then a bitterly cold […]
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