Tag: tomatoes
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A Hobby Guide to Growing Tomatoes: Guest Post
My friend Matt sent me this a while ago. And I promptly didn’t put it up on the blog. My apologies, but then again, we are just hitting planting season here in the Heart of America, so it is timely for that and northerly climes. A Hobby Gardeners Guide to Growing Tomatoes By Matt Crowe…
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Fried Green Tomatoes
I tend to make these at two times of the year: when the tomatoes aren’t yet ripe, but there are a ton of big greens hanging there taunting me, and just before or after the first frost of the year when I’m trying to make the most of the harvest. This recipe was requested by…
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Vintage Kitchen: Mushroom Dream
Week three of cooking through my heirloom antique and vintage cookbook collection, and I’m serving up a recipe that made my First Reader’s eyes light up when he saw it. He loves anything that calls for mushrooms. This recipe comes from the 1929 International Cook Book, and you can find some of the contributors in…
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Monoculture, Agriculture, Permaculture
Continuing on the theme of talking about food, farms, and cultivation methods, I wanted to settle down on my soap box and talk about one of my favorite things. I grew up with parents who were very interested in gardening, producing our own foods, preserving it.. in other words, quite old-fashioned and what would now…
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Eat This While You Read That: Michael Hooten
Both the First Reader and I have enjoyed Michael Hooten‘s Cricket series very much, finding them to be high fantasy without over-reliance on tropes and thus refreshing to read. His characters are lively, so it came as no surprise to find a note appended to the recipe he sent me. The book we recommend for…
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Whirled Peas and Tomatoes
Oh, boy… Wednesdays are the new Mondays for me. Or at any rate, they are going to be the busiest day of the week when it comes to school scheduling. I have Genetics, Drawing, and Organic Chemistry (lecture). So blogging on Wednesday is likely to slip in quality a bit. Not that that’s a high…