Archive for August 2007
Melon Salsa
For Graduation Day at the Botanical Gardens, we encored our Peach-Corn salsa (with Sungold Cherry tomatoes, etc). Examining our pepper plants, we found their beautiful chocolate-red-green tie-dyed skin had contracted some sort of ...
Watermelon Gazpacho Soup
Check it out: watermelon and corn! Of all the plants we’ve grown this year, I’m clearly most excited about their success. To celebrate, then: watermelon gazpacho. It’s almost the end of ...
Crepes and Saucy Fruit
As August closes, we’re going to have to say a fond farewell to our East Coast peaches, apricots, and ...
Pumpkins!
Thanks, mom! The seeds have taken well and “off the grow”. I’m hoping we have pumpkins ready for halloween.The little sprouts alongside the ...
Squash!
There’s a lot of squashing going on in the fields these days. Kira of Evolutionary Organics (at Union Square every Wednesday) graciously let me have a whole bunch of beautiful squash to take up to the NY ...
Steamed Kohlrabi
Kohlrabi, broccoli’s UFO-looking cousin, is all over the markets these days–Kira’s selling it at her Union Square Stand, Evolutionary Organics. Because it’s a brassica, it gains sweetness with cool temperatures–which means it can only get better, come ...
Summer Peas and Pasta
You can’t say no to fresh summer peas. Ask Tim and Kevin of Windfall Farms. They can’t. They tried and they just can’t.
Summer Peas and Belly Button Pasta
4 large fresh shallots, minced (greens and bulb)4 cloves ...
Fried Zucchini Blossoms
Squash plants grow gendered flowers. When pollination is complete, and little zucchini appear at the base of the female flower, the male flowers can be harvested and cooked (hurrah!). A few nights ago my upstairs neighbors ...
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