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Please Can We Create a Sensible Recycling Method for Supermarket Vegetable Waste?
Because of our perverse American insistence on spotless, wrinkle free vegetables supermarket vegetable departments throw out garbage cans full of good produce everyday. Yesterday morning I went shopping at the Barracks Road Kroger in Charlottesville. To get to the jicima…
Making your own Pomegranate Juice!
Now is the time to plan for the fall harvest of pomegranates. There comes a time each fall when the new harvest might sell for as little as $1 apiece for big juicy fruit. Once the sweet tart red seeds…
The Value of Self-reliance vs the Ideology of Self-sufficiency
None of us are self sufficient. We all need somebody! Despite the often nostalgic retro-interpretations (our idealization of Little House on the Prairie comes to mind!) Americans weren’t self sufficient in the Colonial past, the Revolutionary Era nor the long…
Thank you to my cooking class students
Cooking with people who enjoy food is a great pleasure! Thank you, Tracey and Catherine. Tracey and I canning peaches …
Storing food for use all summer and fall; the Spring House
Last weekend I harvested the carrot and beets before they got buggy in the ground. The Elephant Garlic is out of the ground and we dug all the potatoes. Here they are in our 1911 Spring House – staying relatively…
Leni’s Summer Tomato Salad
The first big tomatoes are ripening on the vine; and we did eat three tiny cherry tomatoes yesterday . . . . . . The cucumbers won’t be fruiting for weeks but I am dreaming of my favorite fresh summer…