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A Cauliflower Trick
I’m not sure where I picked up this helpful hint, but I kinda love it. Cauliflower will supposedly turn green with too much exposure to sunlight. I harvested my first head– 14 oz!! yesterday from the early planting. But before … Continue reading
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Tagged beets, cauliflower, growing cauliflower, growing food, organic vegetable gardening
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Two Beet Salads
Roots are really fun to grow. It’s very satisfying when it’s time to start pulling up beets and radishes by the fistful. When a tall, thick carrot comes out of the ground, it’s a miracle. We’ve been making do with … Continue reading
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Tagged Asian beet slaw, beet salad, beet slaw, beets, fennel, feta, fresh beets, Mediterranean beet salad
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Back in the Garden
I was gone a week. A full week. Before I left I watered everything as much as I could, typed out instructions labeled: watering, weeding, harvesting, and prayed for rain. When I left there were tiny beets in the ground … Continue reading
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Tagged beets, broccoli, food gardening, organic gardening, radish
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April Showers
Early yesterday morning I dozed as it rained outside. It was a lovely April shower that took out the last remnants of snow. It was a nice enough week that I got out on my bike six days out of seven, … Continue reading
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Tagged beets, gardening, heirloom potatoes, Minnesota vegetable gardening, planting, potatoes, seed potatoes, vegetable gardening
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Beet Pesto
I believe not too long ago on this blog I said I was a pesto purist. Well, I am a woman of contradictions. I actually loved the pea pesto so much that I decided to try another recipe for an … Continue reading
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Tagged beet pesto, beet recipe, beets, garden beets, pesto
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A Trio of Garden Meals
In my overwhelmed state after returning from vacation on Sunday, I mostly wandered, weeded and randomly picked stuff in the garden. I had a lot of kitchen work, mostly having to do with radishes, beets, greens, and lettuce. I brought … Continue reading
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Tagged beet greens, beets, cooking with beer, garden peas recipe, garden pesto, mixed garden vegetables, pea pesto, pea pesto with shrimp, peas, pesto, shallots, summer garden vegetables
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The New Old Foods
I am sure I’ve said before that Barbara Kingsolver’s book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle changed my life. It is the second book by Barbara Kingsolver that changed my life, as Poisonwood Bible also had a huge effect on my thinking about … Continue reading
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Tagged beets, butternut squash, cooking, food, garden, greens, kale, kingsolver, omnivore's dilemma, radish, winter vegetables
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