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Barbie Says, Let’s Can More!

August 25th, 2008 · 9 Comments · Uncategorized

Careful what you wish for, Barbie. The ground around our Roma plants is littered with tomatoes. I have a feeling if you just gave the plants a good shake, you’d have an unending supply. These are the pulpy, less juicy variety of tomatoes ideal for dicing and canning or turning into tomato sauce or paste. […]

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Lunch

July 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Plate of leftover salads: beet and tomatoes, corn salad. Preparation time: 5 minutes Shopping: none We never tire of having a container of our beet salad in the refrigerator. Fresh beets from the garden, tomatoes and red onion seasoned with extra-virgin olive oil and red wine vinegar is big on flavor and utterly refreshing, especially […]

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I’ll Take Those Three Ibuprofins

May 27th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Uncategorized

Whoever said gardening was easy? It might not be immediately obvious, but getting our front-yard kitchen garden to look like this took the better part of the Memorial Day weekend. By the end of it, we were grilling burgers and hot dogs and sipping our gin-and-tonics, but I was bushed. First, I harvested about 10 […]

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