Garden Recipe: Fig and Bleu Bites Figs. Blue. Sweet. Savory. What about those four words together doesn’t sound like a mashup you want to eat and with which you want to ply your guests? We have a struggling little fig tree that provides about enough figs to make three tablespoons of fig preserves. Sometimes more,…
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Spring Garden Recipe: Nasturtium and Arugula Salad
GARDEN RECIPE FOR SPRING: EAT YOUR FLOWERS April showers bring May flowers, right? Though the selections of lovely spring blooms may be limited by a paucity of water and we didn’t really have April showers this year, the nasturtiums running wildly up and down my hill are plentiful and make a simple, peppery salad with…
Garden Recipes: A Taste of Summer with Pasta Meyer Lemon
Garden Recipes: A Taste of Summer with Pasta Meyer Lemon Citrus fruit has a way of tricking us into thinking a corner of summer is with us in winter. At Eye of the Day every one of our citrus trees are decorated with orange, gold and yellow fruit and I am HAPPY to harvest a…
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…
Just Eat It: Pizza Oven-Roasted Tomatoes
On most Sunday afternoons (though not so much in December and January) you would have a fairly good chance of finding us on our shaded back patio spending time with our trusty pizza oven. We will be stoking the fire with oak wine barrel staves, putting in or taking out one blistered pizza after another…
Just Eat It: Pasta with Chive Blossoms
It’s still pretty early for lots of dining from the garden, but as we all know, Brent loves his chives and chive blossoms. We have had a fairly steady supply of lettuces and herbs so far this year and even when it looked like we had lost our chives to the deadly December freeze, their…
