Here’s a little video I put together recapping the 2010 Vegetable Garden. Enjoy!
Until Next Time, Keep Digging & Eat Well!
The Gastronomic Gardener
If you’ve ever had an Italian beef sandwich in the Chicago area, chances are you had Giardiniera on it. Giardiniera is a mixture of garden veggies, diced small, pickled in …
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One of my favorite meals is lamb chops. I started these yesterday.
Let’s start with the marinade. Olive oil, rosemary, garlic, Calamata olives. Chop the garlic. Strip the rosemary. Place …
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We’re still putting up apples, aand thought it was time to try out the dehydrator.
Here’s the setup. Dilute lemon juice, apples, peeler.
The peeler certainly makes short work of the …
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As I mentioned before I’ve come to thinking about moving the veggie plot from the current location to the back yard. According to the Square Foot Gardening book by Mel …
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We got all those apples last week. We’ve done apple butter, now we’ll do Apple Pie Filling.
This recipe is from allrecipes.com
Ingredients: 4 1/2 cups white sugar 1 cup …
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I had just finished putting the hoop house up for a late season crop of lettuce. In order to do so, I had to harvest the “last” of the basil.
For some reason colder weather triggers my desire for red meat.
I was shopping last night and picked up a big beef roast. As I have a long day today and needed …
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A walk around the garden this cool autumn (I love that word) morning and there is still color and form in the garden. The hummingbird has been visiting the nasturtium, …
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