Garden Cocktails: Holiday Edition You have so much going on during the holiday season, but you need something special for yourself while you sit down, relax and enjoy all the work you have put into making everyone happy. You could make a second one for someone and continue to spread the happiness. WINTER ICE CHAMPAGNE COCKTAIL Serves…
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Garden Cocktails: The Windfall
Garden Cocktails: The Windfall This autumnal cocktail takes some initial work, but really: you won’t be disappointed. Daisy the cocktail maven came up with this in order to use the season’s windfall of apples and Meyer lemons. Ingredients: 1 oz apple infused bourbon (see recipe below) 1 oz Calvados or Apple Brandy (Laird’s is the…
Garden Recipe: Apple and Butternut Squash Soup
GARDEN RECIPE: Apple and Butternut Squash Soup It’s beginning to look like autumn, and on some days it feels like it too. The summer vegetable garden is sad and scraggly, so I know that it’s time for apples, persimmons, pomegranates and winter squash. And soup. This one. ½ c unsalted butter (or ½ c good…
Garden Recipe: Tomato, Fig, and Cheese Salad
Garden Recipe: TOMATOES FIGS CHEESE We have had a tiny fig tree in our back yard for seven years…so maybe we are graced with four or five velvety, crunchy, voluptuous figs each summer. This year it is veritably FILLED with figs. It’s still a tiny tree, but it’s trying harder this time. Daydreaming of my…
Garden Cocktails: Backyard Fig Margarita
Garden Cocktails: Backyard Fig Margarita Pick some figs from your little tree in the back yard, or get them from the Farmers’ Market… BACKYARD MARGARITA 1 ½ oz. silver tequila ½ oz. fig simple syrup (it’s easy, you can make it) ½ oz. Cointreau or Triple Sec ¼ oz. fresh lime juice Combine all ingredients…
Tips for Successful Edible Gardening by The Conscious Garden
Tips for Successful Edible Gardening by The Conscious Garden In Southern California we love to eat healthy food and there is no fresher, tastier or more nutrient dense foods than those that you pick from your own garden or that you buy from the farmers market. It is important to know that your food is…
