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Leeks: A Good Vegetable for Northern Gardens

October 31, 2008

When the days grow shorter, when we’ve had several freezes (and even a dusting of snow), and when we finally concede it’s time to drain the hose and close down the storm windows on the last remaining screens–that’s when we begin to harvest the leeks.

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Butternut squash is the best winter squash

September 18, 2008

This is not winter squash:One advantage of homeschooling is that faced with too much zucchini, yellow crookneck, patty pan, and kousa squash, you just bring out the butter knives and conduct art class.
Wait to harvest winter squash
I had to share that with you, because I don’t have any pictures of winter squash. We leave winter [...]

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Too much sweet corn?

August 20, 2008

Is there such a thing as too much sweet corn?
On Sunday he asked me, “How was the corn you had yesterday for lunch, when I wasn’t here?” I said it was getting a little mature. He said, “Oh, I guess I better freeze the rest of it.” I had no idea how much was still [...]

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Tomatoes in the kitchen

August 14, 2008

Tomatoes the Old-Fashioned Way
I’ve been reading the The Little House on the Prairie series to my six-year-old at bedtime. We just happen to be on The Long Winter and were reading “Fall of the Year” just a couple of days ago, where the Ingalls were surprised by an early hard frost. Ma and Laura picked [...]

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Green Bean Recipes

August 7, 2008

We don’t have any green beans ready quite yet, though they’re getting close. And even when we do have green beans, we’re quite happy eating them boiled in water until crisp-tender, drained, and then tossed with garlic sauteed in olive oil, or maybe just butter, salt, and pepper. However, there comes a time in the [...]

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Summer Squash

July 31, 2008

I decided to join the Food Fest hosted jointly by Dinner Tonight and A Way to Garden. So, for the first time ever (well, not quite, there are some pesto recipes here), recipes at Cold Climate Gardening.

Clockwise from top left: White Bush Lebanese, Benning’s Green Tint Patty Pan, more White Bush Lebanese (I think), and [...]

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Making Pesto and Cooking with Pesto

July 22, 2008

This essay was written before 2001, and a lot has changed since then. Details in the Postscript.

People tend to assume, since I live in the country and have a large family, that I grow and preserve all (or at least a good deal) of the food we eat. But the truth is, I really don’t [...]

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