Fresh Ginger

Photo by Asparagirl

I plant a garden every year. Some years I have planted one at the community garden too. This year, since we took our house off the market, we are making some big plans : raised beds and a small green or hoop house. The garage/shed will come down and […]

Wild ramps (leeks to me), garden garlic (not my garden, but a friend’s), garlic chives, chives, and onions. That is what I used for my onion family soup - all in the allium family.

I learned to make the basis of this soup 10 years ago when I worked at McMenamins Brewery in Hilsboro Oregon. […]

The last two weeks have been busy with other things too, distracting things. I did a bone density test and found out I have the early stages of osteoporosis, not being even 40, this was a bit of a shocker (even though it runs in the family). Thank goodness for a new doc […]

I know all three of my readers (if there are more, please feel free to comment for no reason at all!) are wondering why I haven’t been posting photos and blogging more often. I am sure I mentioned in an earlier post that we are putting my house on the market and we finally […]

Oh, to blog about the garden first or cooking or brewing?
Garden
It is now finished. The newspaper is down, the plants are in, the straw is on top. It is fertilized and watered. The slugs are really enjoying my pole beans, fenugreek (methi) and spinach - these all have a beautiful lacey […]

Ok, I tried the pretzels, no reaction. I had some of the spaghetti noodles for lunch and no reaction (they were nice and light). Before trying something else from the box of goodies sent to me, I decided that if I was going to react, I want it to be over a nice […]

Well, I never did find any morels when I finally got up North. But I did find some in my backyard. Strangely enough this one was over by the apple tree growing among the periwinkle. I snapped it up too fast to take a photo of it still attached to the ground.
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