Root vegetables get their name for the fact that the vegetables are harvested from the ground and sold at markets with the stringy roots attached. The veggies tell you how fresh they are in this part of the stem.
Tag: herbs
Pesto: It’s Easy Being Green and a Summer Update from Parade
Can it really be the halfway point of summer? We are trying to hit all the items on our checklist of things to do for summer vacation. Trips to the zoo, the beach, ice cream from the ice cream man when he stops by after dinner and the days of outdoor camp. It has been a…
Here Comes the Sun!
There is nothing more satisfying and rewarding than watching everything outside come back to life. The daffodils, tulips and flowering trees signal that the warmer weather is on the way. Our outdoor activities are in gear with track and baseball. Last weekend we got the grill set up for another season of cooking on the…
Homemade Pizza for Pi Day
March is the month that gardeners start to prepare for the upcoming growing season and there are surprises coming up through the soil. If you start plants and vegetables from seed, now is when you start to prepare those seeds and seed-starter medium indoors so they are ready to roll out to the garden in mid-May. Sedum…
The Indoor January Garden
At the end of the growing season we dig up some herbs to bring inside to continue to give us fresh herbs like chives, oregano, thyme, rosemary, marjoram, and basil. The thyme really grew and spread last summer so we divided it and brought a big pot inside. The transition from outside to indoors has…
How the Summer Herb Garden Helps Holiday Meals
Where do the weeks from Thanksgiving to Christmas go? Hopefully you have gotten the decorations out, thought about holidays gone by and have the chance to continue to meet with friends and family. We dug up some herbs from the garden so that we can cook with them all winter long. Most herbs are sturdy enough to make the…
dinner revisted with new starring ingredients
Last night’s dinner took advantage of the herbs that are bursting in the garden. Farfalle is a favorite pasta shape for the guys. We picked some basil leaves, sprigs of thyme and a few chives for our pesto bow-tie pasta. The guys prefer a combination of green herbs to mix with the extra-virgin-olive-oil, cheese and pignolia nuts rather…
here comes the growing season and a tip for big container plants
It feels good to be able to move your entertaining and lifestyle outside for the season. Reading while the kids splash in the pool or the sense of accomplishment (and tiredness!) you feel after a day in the garden are part of the activities of the warmer months. The growing season is here and read on…
yes, we like green eggs and ham
The view outside our window hasn’t changed much this winter. It’s headed our way again – more snow! You know you’ve had a long winter of storms when two kids overhear the news on the radio and groan. The indoor growing season, in the house, is what we focus on until we can garden outside again. We tend…
see you september
September. The cooler air moves in and the leaves begin their show-stopping parade of color. The first race of the cross-country season was held this weekend. The runners followed the course and the sunshine highlighted the slightly orange canopy of leaves in the park. Little guy is racing this year and found out the course is not as easy…
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