Gardening Archive

  • Stuffed Pizza Tomatoes

    Stuffed Pizza Tomatoes

    As we’ve written in the past, Bryan and I like to cook together – we’ve been each other’s sous chefs and we have split meal duties. The other night, we were able to be in the kitchen together after what seems like a long few months of work, events, travel and losses in our family. [...]

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  • Summer squash and zucchini gratin

    Summer squash and zucchini gratin

    Our squash and zucchini are officially dominating the garden this season, meaning I’m having to come up with new ways to use both. Tonight I followed a simple traditional gratin method with great success. It’s hard to measure out the exact amounts you’ll need for this recipe, but I used two one-pound (or so) summer [...]

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  • Product Review: AeroGarden

    Product Review: AeroGarden

    Bryan planted basil, dill and thyme a few days before Christmas and we started picking basil within a month.

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  • Mint Ice Cream Recipe Review

    Mint Ice Cream Recipe Review

    We planted mint in our garden last year and quickly learned how delicious, and invasive, it can be. Fresh mint smells great and, let’s face it, who doesn’t like picking fresh mint from their garden for mojitos in the summer? We haven’t made ice cream in quite some time. In fact, it has been almost [...]

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  • Sweet corn with pea shoots

    Sweet corn with pea shoots

    For the last week I’ve been delicately tending to my pea shoots as they sprouted from seeds on the kitchen windowsill. I just recently tried “sprouting” for the first time, and wanted to find an interesting way to try the first of many sprouts to come. Right now we have snow peas, broccoli, mustard and [...]

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  • Starting a vegetable garden

    Starting a vegetable garden

    So we’ve been slacking off in publishing new blog posts recently, but I think we have a pretty good excuse: we’re starting a vegetable garden. Now that the ground is thawed and warm days are ahead, we started working in the back yard (since this will be our first full summer in the house). I [...]

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