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Roasted Delicata Squash

Roasted Delicata Squash

  Tonight I roasted delicata with garlic and oil, an easy fall staple. Roasting brings out squash's sweetness and mellows the garlic, and delicata's…

Harvest Meal

Harvest Meal

  Tonight's ingredients, all now underway. Carrots, leeks, and herbs from my garden. Beans local. Cranberries regional (and organic). Chicken that led a happy…

Refritos, Northern Style

Refritos, Northern Style

The other day I scooped up a load of shell beans grown on a local farm. They may have been cranberry beans; they weren't…

Pesto

Pesto

Basil plus garlic equals pesto (four pounds).

Abundance

Abundance

We'll have frost tonight, twenty-nine degrees. That will be the end of the tender crops: peppers, beans, eggplant, basil. So it was a day…

From Soil to Table

From Soil to Table

I dug these carrots and leeks about fifteen minutes ago. In another fifteen, I'll have them prepped and laid into a baking dish with…

Shallots

Shallots

The shallot harvest. Earth, air, sun, water, and time converted one pound of shallots into two and a half. Maybe next year I'll shoot…

Onion Harvest

Onion Harvest

The onions were ready today. They lifted easily from their moorings, a sure sign of ripeness. I pulled them all and laid them out…

Fresh Garlic

Fresh Garlic

Today, the garlic was ready to be pulled. It made a big pile: Which I pared down to a smaller pile: Which is now…

First of the Garden Meals

First of the Garden Meals

As the white-throated sparrow sang his vespers to a purpling sky, I gathered my first garden meal. I picked the new green beans and…

Garlic Scapes

Garlic Scapes

Garlic scapes are garlic's flower buds. The scape emerges, curled and elastic, from the center of the garlic plant in late June. Each is…