Life In The Slow Lane
Posted in Recipes on Jan 23rd, 2010
This soup can be made with either fresh or frozen broccoli. It makes a great soup for either lunch or a light dinner, and it’s quick and easy to prepare. There’s no need to chop the ingredients too carefully because they’re going to wind up in the blender anyway. I like to serve it with [...]
Posted in Gardening, Misc Rants on Dec 31st, 2009
It’s hard to believe another year has passed. When I was a child, I couldn’t wait for time to fly by. I was always anxious for Christmas to come, for summer recess to arrive, to get my Learner’s Permit and start driving, and so on. Now that I am older, I find I am in [...]
Posted in Recipes, Traditions on Nov 27th, 2009
My mom and aunt used to make this salad every Thanksgiving, and I’ve carried on the tradition by making it myself for as long as I can remember. If you don’t like cranberry sauce from a can then you might like this salad, which calls for fresh fruit and nuts with gelatin to hold it all [...]
Posted in Gardening on Nov 19th, 2009
I’ve been a little under the weather this week (I’ll spare you the gory details) but the veggie garden goes on. We’ve still got fresh turnips, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, lettuce, radicchio, and tatsoi to harvest as we need them. Amazingly, we haven’t had enough frost here to kill the pepper plants. I can’t recall the [...]
One of the things I like to make when we have a lot of broccoli is this Broccoli and Walnut salad. It’s a lightened up version of the old standby broccoli-bacon-raisin salad of my youth. Some of those recipes actually called for a pound of bacon, but I found that just a few slices add big [...]
Posted in Gardening on Nov 5th, 2009
Now is good time for me to review the performance of some of the new vegetable plants I tried this year, while it’s all still fresh in my mind. Some of the new-for-2009 standouts include Gourmet and Snapper bell peppers and Pingtung Long eggplants. The Snapper peppers were huge, and good at both the green [...]
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An organic gardener shares his thoughts about gardening, nature, food and being self-sufficient.
