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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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…
Arugula Sauté: A Weed of the People
A Weed of the People We find vegetable gardening is a little difficult when we can’t water. This is why you need to grow ARUGULA in your garden. It is actually a weed that doesn’t need much water, it grows wild in many parts of Europe, especially Mediterranean areas and it will grow wild in your…
