by Toni | Jun 19, 2016 | Farmer's Market, Green Decisions, Let's Eat, Vegetables
Patty pan squash just makes me smile. They look like sunny little flying saucers, and they taste like summer in a skillet. Their flavor is delicate but with a bit more personality than zucchini, I think. They come closer to crookneck summer squash in flavor, but,...
by Toni | Nov 20, 2015 | Come Home, Green Decisions, Let's Eat, Live Green, Vegetables
I sort of wondered just what I was going to do with 10 heaping cups of green cherry tomatoes. From the last of September through the first of November, we’d carefully harvested every ripening cherry tomato in our volunteer patch, keeping summer on our plates just a...
by Toni | Nov 2, 2015 | Come Home, Everyday Enchantments, Let's Eat, Vegetables
If you’ve been reading along, we were in New Mexico for the last post, visiting a spice magician and whipping up a pot of chili with tofu. I thought we’d stick around the Southwest a bit longer and celebrate the recent achievement of New Mexico Master Gardener Fred...