Tag: Food

  • Ready for Wild Ramps

    Ready for Wild Ramps

    A ramp (wild leek) scramble is a hungry forager’s perfect springtime breakfast!

  • Apple Crisp

    Apple Crisp

    When autumn’s wintry turn coincides with apples passing their prime, it’s time to make an apple crisp! And so I did. A dairy free, gluten free, maple syrupy apple crisp. Join me? First I peeled, cored, wedged all of the softening fruit. The compost received this ready-to-ferment contribution with a just barely detectable, “Hurrah!” Lots…

  • Persimmoning

    Persimmoning

    As autumn and winter braid themselves into a textured tapestry of yesterdays and tomorrows, persimmoning is upon us in all its nectary extravagance. Hint of honey. Scent of cinnamon. Bliss. I began my morning with the tender caress and sweet kiss of an hachiya persimmon. These photographs tell the story. But the backstory, that’s better…

  • Heaven Can Wait

    Heaven Can Wait

    “Heaven can wait…” while we enjoy the inimitable crunch of June: French breakfast radishes! Remember when I asked if you were ready for radish time? Well, it’s upon us. Lots. Of. Radishes. French breakfast radishes, my favorite, to be precise. That slightly spicy, slightly sweet crunch is sooo satisfying. For breakfast. For lunch. For dinner.…

  • Green Eggs and Ham

    Green Eggs and Ham

    As asparagus time begins yielding to rhubarb time (photo update soon!) I brainstorm asparagus recipes that I’ll lament overlooking once seasonality advances our homegrown ingredients. A vague recollection sends me filtering through old blog posts and then drafts of incomplete blog posts. I find notes started on May 14, 2014, and I know what my…

  • Spargelzeit: Asparagus Time!

    Spargelzeit: Asparagus Time!

    Imagine for a moment enduring many, many months without fresh, homegrown produce. Tragic, right? Especially for a passionate gardener who loves to prepare and share garden-to-table fare for family and friends. Now you can stop imagining because this next part requires no imagination… It’s Spargelzeit! The word Spargel means asparagus and Zeit means time. The…

  • Summer Supper Prequel

    Summer Supper Prequel

    Sometime summer supper comes in springtime because the asparagus are perfect and I just can’t wait for summer. Or I want to jumpstart summer. Or… Let’s just call this a summer supper prequel and get in with the eye candy! Because asparagus season just happens to have coincided with the decadence of fresh lobster meat.…

  • Imperial Star Artichoke

    Imperial Star Artichoke

    Last fall Susan and I were roaming Old Montreal when we discovered several artichokes plants alive and thriving. I couldn’t believe it. So I did a little research. Lo and behold, I discovered that the Imperial Star hybrid is able to grow and produce as an annual even this far north. So, in addition to the…