What do you do when you have a huge zucchini and have made enough zucchini bread (although, really, is there ever enough zucchini bread)? You make zucchini bread pancakes! Arielle was given a zucchini from her friend Tori’s garden. It was huge. She made 4 loaves of zucchini bread and there was still two and…
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Turkey and String Bean Stir-Fry
One of the only vegetables that grew at my parents’ house was string beans. They pretty much grew wild along the fence by our picnic table; no one ever planted them. My guess is that they started as a volunteer from our neighbor’s yard and then became quite established. Wherever they came from, I loved…
Peach Time in Delaware – Peach Tart
Delaware used to be one of the top peach growing states in the US – back in the 1800’s that is. Hundreds of thousands of acres of peach trees were harvested in the county I live in. Sadly, in the 1920’s a disease devastated the peach trees and now there are only a handful of…
Truffle Balsamic Tomatoes thanks to our journey to Rhinebeck, NY
We traveled to Rhinebeck, NY to visit our daughter at the camp she is working at. She had the day off, so she was able to join us for a day of hiking and tastings. To burn off some energy, we spent the morning hiking at Ferncliff Forest Preserve. We found the observation tower and…
Roasted Carrots
Usually when I grow carrots they are very sweet; so sweet that they get eaten raw, I don’t get to cook with them. Not so this year. I am not sure why, but they had a little bitterness to them, even the little ones. So, time to roast them and bring out their natural sugars….
Broccoli Cheddar Pockets and My Amazing Snake Rescue
Remember when hot pockets were new? Boy did I think they were cool. So handy, and back then I even thought they were tasty. OK, that was before I discovered fresh, non-processed foods. But I still think they are a neat concept. So I was tickled when I found a recipe for broccoli cheddar pockets…
Vegetable Gumbo
It is that time again…Swiss chard bouquets are adorning my counter top. Such a happy thing, they always make me smile. There is a lot of swiss shard growing in the garden. I thought I had a lot last year, but I think this year there will be more. So I need to even more…
Carrot Top Pesto
It always seemed such a waste to me to discard (compost) the carrot greens after harvesting my carrots. There had to be a use for them, I just didn’t know what. Time to turn to my favorite book about root vegetables, Roots by Diane Morgan. And there it was, a recipe for Carrot Top Pesto!…
Kohlrabi, Carrot & Broccoli Stir Fry and Garden Update
This was the first year I grew kohlrabi. I think I let them grow for too long, 3 of them split (I couldn’t use those) and the others were a little tough. That said, they still tasted really good cooked, all I needed to do was cook them a little longer. Next year I will…
Kohlrabi Greens – a Work in Progress
I promised that I would include the good, the bad and the ugly….well, let’s call this one a “good start”. I like to use as many parts of each plant as I can. So when I learned you can eat the leaves of the kohlrabi, I was pretty excited. I started searching for recipes. I…
Andrea's Garden Cooking 