When I’m throwing a party and not feeling very rich I often put a potted cheese out for hors d’oeuvres. This is one way to turn an economical slicing cheese into something exotic looking that spreads on a cracker. Potted cheese is simply cheese grated and marinated in beer, then spiked with dried mustard and […]
I have thirteen tomato plants growing in our garden, which means that a portion of my daily rounds entails admiring all the green tomatoes as they grow huge on the vine and anticipating what an avalanche of ripe red tomatoes we will soon have. But then I think of some of our favorite tomato preparations […]
All winter I’ve been digging periodically in our potato bed and coming away with spuds wonderfully preserved underground. There was still one small area untouched and I wondered if it could still yield edible potatoes. Was this possible? Finally, the rains stopped long enough for a look-see. I plunged my forked spade into the soil […]
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