This is one of our favorites: beet salad with red onions. And in the summer, we like to add tomatoes. Toss with olive oil, red wine vinegar, chives. Have you noticed, the chives are almost ready to bloom. The lavender-colored flowers make a great addition to salads as well. The reason this salad looks so […]
We are nearing the end of a race with our over-wintered greens, wherein we try to eat them before they can “bolt” and go to seed. I recently harvested all of the mizuna from one small bed–no small task, seeing as it means pulling each plant from the ground individually, then picking off the leaves. […]
We love parsnips for their ethereal, rooty sweetness. But they are not an easy vegetable. First, they can be tough to get out of the ground. The roots sometimes go very deep. One of the parsnips I harvested this morning was 20 inches long. Parsnips are also slow. In fact, they are best eaten a […]
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