Garden

PPQ: (Not) Neuvo Texas Waldorf Salad

April 29, 2012
Blueberry

That is where you’d normally see a picture of this week’s Project Pastry Queen challenge: Nuevo Texas Waldorf Salad, as selected by Emily of She Makes and Bakes. After a Saturday spent at Texas Beer Fest and with the little one at Grandma’s house for the night, we had planned a lazy Sunday. Sleep in, [...]

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The Garden: Lots of Green. Lots of Rain.

April 4, 2012
Blueberries

It’s the first week of April! Have you been able to start your garden this year? Here, the temperatures are hovering in the mid/high-80s and rainfall has been plentiful (a big, fat Praise the Lord! for that one). Nearly everything in the garden and backyard is green! Except the Pink Lemon Tree. But I’m hoping [...]

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Garden Friday: Now With Fewer Weeds!

March 16, 2012
Vegetable Garden

I hadn’t paid much attention to our garden over the last 3 months. And it showed. The weeds took over, the remaining herbs went wild over the cooler temperatures, and a single, random cauliflower plant popped up out of no where. Which is weird because I tried (and failed) to grow cauliflower from seed. 8 [...]

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Garden Fridays: now with more blueberries!

January 27, 2012
Blueberries

And grapevines! It’s winter, so all we’ve really got going at the moment are blueberries and citrus. Besides an herb box. And a single stray broccoli plant that popped up out of no where. We picked up two cabernet grapevines last weekend and are pretty excited about them. We’ve been making wine for 5 years [...]

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Fall Garden

October 14, 2011
Eggplant and Green Beans

What’s in your fall garden? We’ve got 4 raised beds, full of: 2 Tomatoes (a roma and something else) Butternut squash (3) Jalapeno (1) Serrano (1) Bell pepper (a red, green, yellow, and orange) Green beans (8) Eggplant (1) Cilantro Chives Basil Oregano Lavender Thyme Garlic My salad greens, broccoli, and cauliflower didn’t take from [...]

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How does your garden grow?

July 29, 2011
Purple Carrot

How are your gardens doing? We’re experiencing the worst drought that I can remember. Like the kind that’s so bad, my rain dance long ago morphed into a tropical storm dance. That bad. But I’m not going to whine about our water bill because when it rains 3 times in 6 months, all kinds of [...]

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Chicken Pesto Lasagna Rolls

June 15, 2011
Chicken Pesto Lasagna Rolls

One of the biggest lessons learned from our vegetable garden this year is that we are never going to be as big a fan of salad greens as I want us to be. Another big lesson? Squirrels are crafty little bastards that will get any tomato that they want, regardless of how hard you try [...]

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Sweet Peas

May 20, 2011
Sweet Peas

Peas were one of the first foods I made for our daughter, and it was the first food she refused. She just wouldn’t have any of the beautiful, bright green puree. I added a pinch of some finely shaved Parmesan to the warm peas and all of a sudden, she couldn’t get enough of them. [...]

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