What’s not to love about the unmistakable, vibrantly herbal blast of lovage? It’s as if a posh designer got hold of celery and added psychedelic green flowers to the scent, and thinned out the stalks into slender hollow tubes, coiffed…
Did you get some gardening done during this sunny, gorgeously warm weekend? I finally planted the peas (Green Arrow and Cascadia shellpeas and Oregon Sugar Pod II snowpea) at the end of last week, hedging my bets again this year…
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Plant at least one potato for good luck, tradition tells us. Then again, tradition tells us it doesn’t snow in March. Forecast for Monday: low 42 degrees, snow showers. That doesn’t even make SENSE. Sheesh. So…
The foraging was in my backyard! To balance all the confit I’ve been eating, I had a keen yearning for a serious salad for this week’s Dark Days Challenge meal. Now, I’m not talking about insipid heads of butter lettuce,…
Everyone in the Willamette Valley (except me) knew to plant their potatoes on St. Patrick’s Day. Mine are still in a little bag on my kitchen table. Are yours? Instead, I sit inside and dream of fluffy mashed potatoes, tossed…
