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When your garden gives you cabbage, carrots, thai basil, and cilantro, make Cambodian coleslaw
A month or so ago, when our cabbages were just maturing, NPR posted a set of recipes for coleslaw. I was intrigued by the one entitled “Salade Cambodgienne,” partly because many of the ingredients were growing in the greenhouse and … Continue reading
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Tagged Cabbage, coleslaw, eating, food, garden, gardening, hoop house, Hudson Valley, NPR, vegetables
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Walla Walla!
When my friend Poonam offered to cook an Indian feast for us, we went to the greenhouse to look for ingredients. In addition to cabbage and potatoes that made a lovely side dish, and cilantro that garnished everything, she wanted … Continue reading
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Tagged eating, food, garden, gardening, greenhouse, grilled, Hudson Valley, locavore, New York, onions, recipes, Slow Food
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What’s not cooking, part 2 (zucchini edition)
Although the temperatures have abated somewhat since my recent post on eating without cooking, we have a bunch of young zucchinis and yellow squashes that have lent themselves to this minimalist approach. If it seems like it’s early for summer … Continue reading
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Tagged Cooking, eating, food, garden, gardening, greenhouse, hoop house, Hudson Valley, Slow Food, squash, summer squash, zucchini
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What’s not cooking
It seems like only a few quick weeks have passed since we celebrated the winter solstice and the beginnings of longer days that would bring new growth to the plants in the greenhouse. But the calendar says that was almost … Continue reading
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Tagged coleslaw, food, garden, gardening, greenhouse, greens, Heat wave, Hudson Valley, Slow Food, solstice
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“I made something good last night”
Our greenhouse colleague Marsha is trained as a chef, so when she says “I made something good last night,” we all stop work and listen. What she made was a frittata of sorts, starring eggs from Logan’s chicken, chard from … Continue reading
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Tagged Chard, Cooking, eating, food, frittata, greenhouse, Slow Food
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For a few months, we’re gardening like everyone else
Memorial Day weekend is usually considered the beginning of summer. Right on schedule, we had a few really hot and humid days earlier this week, then a series of thunderstorms midweek brought us glorious sunny days with low humidity. This … Continue reading
Shopping the aisles
We have an overwhelming number of choices for greens right now, something those of us in the Winter Bounty project take for granted. This was brought home to me when I served a friend a gratin made from mature greenhouse … Continue reading
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Tagged food, garden, Hudson Valley, New York Times, recipes, Slow Food, Spinach, winter harvest
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Winter Bounty sweetens up dessert
Last winter, we discovered how sweet our green leafy vegetables can be when they’re grown in cold weather. Marsha halfway joked that she was going to create a dessert using our spinach–a tart or some other preparation that would showcase … Continue reading
The $5 Challenge
Slow Food USA is taking on the fast food “value meal” by challenging people to make a meal that costs $5 or less per person. What would you cook? Since the weather has taken a crisp turn overnight, my inclination … Continue reading
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Tagged Cooking, eating, food, gardening, greenhouse, Hudson Valley, Lentil, locavore, Sausage, Slow Food, winter harvest
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Preparing for winter bounty by fighting the caterpillars
It’s been a little over a year since the Winter Bounty Project got underway. We’re now back to where it all began: watching things that we planted in the last month begin to sprout and grow, and helping them to … Continue reading
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Tagged Caterpillar, food, garden, greenhouse, high house, hoop house, Hudson Valley, kale, locavore, New York, pest control, winter harvest
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