After 4 days away from the garden, lots of work to do this morning, both weeding and plant care. Still not sure what is going on with the cucumbers. Might be bugs but I don’t see any, so it may be a disease. I have gotten half a dozen really nice tasty cukes and there…
Month: June 2012
Lentil Salad with Swiss Chard
This morning I picked the second-to-last large bunch of swiss chard. There are still more bunches, but they are small second-growings of bunches we have already eaten. I am in a bit of a hurry to finish the chard so that my okra plants (which are interplanted with the chard) can get the full light…
Zucchini Pasta with Tomatoes & Feta
And so it begins…zucchini time! It is always so disarming, first a few cute little zucchini; a few weeks later and we will be innundated and no amount of zucchini bread baking will be able to keep up. But the season here is usually short lived, our plants are prone to a disease and as…
Swiss Chard – White Bean – Tomato Ragout
Still harvesting swiss chard, but what new to do with it? I wanted something really flavorful, and different from the dishes I have already made this season. Last year I had tried a few white bean/tomato dishes that were very tasty. So when I saw a dish in Martha Rose Shulman’s Mediterranean Harvest cookbook for…
Carrot Salad Pita Sandwiches
What to do with all those carrots? My carrots have grown bigger and more abundantly this year than they ever have, so I wanted a dish that would highlight them. So, how about a carrot salad worthy of being a lunch in itself? By the way, I attribute the quality of the carrots to…
Raspberry & Dark Chocolate Scones
All I can say is, “Oh my goodness, these are wonderful!” Another winner from joyofbaking.com. I did not change the recipe at all (other than to use black raspberries), so I am referring you back to their page for it – click here. I did have help making these, so I decided to include some…
Fava Beans & Pasta
My meeting today took me near one of my favorite farms – Highland Orchards in Wilmington, DE. They grow naturally, and grow a lot of fruits and vegetables that I do not, so I am like a kid in a candy store when I go into their shop. Today I bought blackberries, black raspberries, red…
The Garden
This morning’s harvest. This will turn into pesto, a salad for lunch and garlic sauteed chard for with dinner. I still need to figure out what I want to do with the baby zucchini. People have been asking me what how big my garden is and what I am growing. Here is the garden back…
Garlic Scape Pesto
If you like garlic, you definitely need to try garlic scape! And this pesto is a simple and quick way to truly enjoy it! I had gotten garlic scape from Beechwood Orchards at the Univ. of Pennsylvania farmers market. Garlic scape is the shoot from the garlic that produces the flower and seeds. To cook…
Andrea's Garden Cooking 