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...
by Toni | Sep 5, 2015 | Farmer's Market, Let's Eat, Vegetables
Kind? If you are thinking this is an odd question, you’ve got another great reason to shop at your local farmer’s market— unbelievable variety! For instance, my CSA farmer Bruce (AKA the KING of GARLIC at our market) grows at least nine varieties of garlic every year....
by Toni | Aug 13, 2015 | Let's Eat, Vegetables
Now that the garlic scapes have, well…. escaped the market, what’s next? Fresh garlic, of course! But fresh garlic is not the garlic you might be used to: fresh from the soil, its skin is moist and white with beautiful purple veins. And it is fragile. Unlike its aged...
