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Raspberry jam daze
Boiling juice first and adding fruit at the end to preserve color, taste and texture of raspberries. Hot, sticky, sweet Jam in July. Raspberries ripen fast in a heat wave, at a rate of 2 quarts a day...
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Mushroom hunting conditions
Enough chicken of the woods to feed an army. Found near my house today, but too far gone to pick for good eating. Two weeks ago heavy rains penetrated even the dense canopies of evergreen trees,...
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Giving thanks for the 2010 harvest
Green tomatoes picked before frost, ripening on trays We’ll be staying close to home for Thanksgiving so can source the majority of ingredients for the feast from our 2010 harvests. As with every...
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Beans – the magical fruit
Beans at various stages of maturity from scarlet runner and other pole bean varieties. Beans have me entranced. Each year I plant ever more varieties for drying and shelling. The colors, patterns and...
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Salad in a closet
Belgian endive grown as a root crop. Imagine a care free-crop you can grow all summer, pick in the fall and store in a closet for winter harvests of fresh, crunchy salads. It’s not a dream but a...
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Wet walks and warming food
Wet woods in May at a patch of wild leeks. Record-breaking flood levels on Lake Champlain, saturated soils, galloping streams, and days of rain. Depression and complaints about the weather abound. But...
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Evergreen Pesto
Fresh basil with bags of frozen pesto Basil, that indispensible warm-weather herb and best friend of tomatoes has been a gardener’s favorite for years. Yet during my first 25 years, basil was no more...
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Summer Cilantro
Home grown coriander seeds with its offspring, a clump of cilantro. A favorite seasoning of tropical cuisines ought to grow happily in summer but Cilantro just doesn’t. It much prefers the cold. How...
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Home-dried tomatoes
Tomatoes drying in the sun, covered by cheesecloth. Given the options for preserving the bounty of tomatoes – canning, freezing or drying – I prefer the method that combines the most flavor for the...
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Glorious Greens of Fall
A riot of autumn greens - chard and kale. Between the withering heat of summer and the icy winds of winter comes the season we normally associate with warm colors – orange, red and gold – and later the...
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