Once you’ve got your supply of shelled, washed, cooked beans, what next? There are so many options it’s honestly hard to know where to begin, but here are two of my favorites. For beans that will lend themselves readily to Tex-Mex, Cajun, and many Southeastern US style meals, stew your cooked beans with a large [...]
Also tagged beans, garlic, sage, salsa, tomatoesIt’s been so hot here, and so dry, the kind of weather we usually don’t see until August. Unbroken 90F or better for more than a week now, and no rain at all. It’s hard on the gardens, and on the gardeners. I water every day, carrying buckets of water from the rain barrels to [...]
Also tagged green beans, leafy greensPazi dolmasi is Turkish stuffed chard. Normally you’d make it with very large chard leaves, and stuff them with a meat or rice filling much as you would if you were making stuffed grape leaves. Then they’d be baked, probably with a bit of tomatoey or lemony sauce to keep things moist. The chard leaves [...]
Also tagged bison, chard, home cooking, leafy greens, monday's supperSince what I’m eating for dinner tonight is exactly the same as what I ate for lunch, I figured I’d take y’all on a little tour of the garden instead of subjecting you to yet another photo of my food. This rose is “Mermaid,” an old, simple rose with a vigorous and sprawling habit, a [...]
Also tagged beans, blueberries, elderberries, flowers, greens, herbs, peppers, pumpkin, tomatoes, wednesday's supperThis is the second patch of unseasonably hot weather we’ve “enjoyed” here in Baltimore this spring. I can’t say that I care for it being 90 F, but my roses, shameless opportunists that they are, are bursting into bloom. Meet Penelope, an old variety of hybrid musk rose that dates from 1924. She grows on [...]
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