I planted our garden late this year because we were planning to sell our house and I wasn’t sure we’d have any garden at all. But look at our okra. Barely three feet high, the plant are already making pods like crazy. I had to take a moment from tiling bathrooms to harvest some quick, […]
I asked the kids in our food appreciation classes if they could name some vegetables that are “in season” this time of year. One five-year-old piped right up: “Peppers!” he declared. “That’s absolutely right,” I replied. “But how did you know that?” Kids, after all, aren’t supposed to know their vegetables. “Because,” he answered confidently, […]
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We are swimming in okra from the garden these days and I don’t mind eating it morning, noon and night. I lilke the way egg yolks run into vegetables. So it was only natural this morning to top off one of my latest okra creations–braised with our own peppers, onions, diced tomatoes–with a couple of […]
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