I have a confession. I eat cupcakes for breakfast. But not just any cupcake. A rich, moist, sweet summer squash cupcake with cream cheese frosting on top. I eat the whole thing (okay, maybe two) till the very end when I’m licking crumbs off the liner and frosting off my fingers. Somehow, I convince myself [...]
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Back in the 16th century when tomatoes were first introduced in Europe, the French adoringly called the fruits “love apples” (pommes d’amour), believing that these succulent orbs had aphrodisiac powers. And do they? One look at this voluptuous tray of delectable, juicy, vine-ripened heirloom tomatoes, freshly picked from the garden, and you might start to [...]
I started pulling some of my fading summer crops the other week, including what was one of my favorite plants of the whole season — the delicious and distinctive Dragon Tongue bush bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), a Dutch heirloom introduced in the 18th century. I admit that I have a bias for purple plants in the [...]
Last week’s massive harvest of the rogue tomato plants didn’t just yield green tomatoes; I also harvested a hefty basket of ripe, juicy, orangey-red cherry tomatoes ready for eatin’. Problem was… I couldn’t eat them all right away. I turned some of them into roasted tomato soup and sliced the others fresh into salads. I [...]
I am drowning in tomatoes. Crunchy, tart, green cherry tomatoes. Correction, I was. By the time you read this, I’m well on my way to Pagosa Springs, Colorado, via a 10-day-ish road trip through Utah, Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico. But this road trip was the impetus for the mad harvest last week of my [...]
One day’s harvest over the weekend… Bidwell casaba melon, Japanese Summer Top cucumber, Purple Plum and White Hailstone radishes, Striata d’Italia zucchini, Red Zebra tomatoes, Sweet Chocolate bell peppers (the first ripe ones this season!), Poona Kheera cucumber, Strie Patisson Melange squash, and a pair of crisp golden apples. Now I just need to go [...]
The Florida Weave… I have to chuckle every time I hear the name. It sounds like a bad hairpiece, maybe even a rollickin’ good dance down south (and maybe it’s both?). But it’s actually an effective method of trellising tomatoes if you plant your tomatoes in rows. Many small-scale farmers and commercial growers employ the [...]
