Tag: root vegetables
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Time for Heart Warming Comfort Food: Gnocchi with Brussels Sprouts, Butternut Squash & Italian Sausage
Gnocchi with Brussels Sprouts, Butternut Squash and Optional Plant-Based or Regular Italian Sausage Winter weather returned to New England this first week of Spring, and I’m about warm up some of last night’s left-over gnocchi to fuel some heavy shoveling. Something about spring snow makes me crave comfort food, and this dish warmed me right […]
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Beets, Carrots, Early Spring Garden Plants, Garden Design, Gourmet Garden, organic gardening, Vegetable Gardening, Winter Garden, Winter Gardening
Getting Rooted: Pretty Potatoes, Colorful Carrots, Radiant Radishes & Beautiful Beets…
Now that I have enlarged the potager, I’m planning a bumper crop of colorful potatoes! Radishes and carrots make great companions, not only in salads, but in the potager as well (see pelletized carrot seed planting tip/velvet carrot recipe here, and read a carrot/radish companion planting article here) Colorful Salad of Red and Gold Beets […]
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Cooking, Recipes, Root Cellar Storage, Storing Winter Vegetables, Vegetable Gardening
Potato Leek Soup: The Antidote to Brrr ! Plus Tips on Storing Leeks in the Root Cellar…
Potato Leek Soup Brrr is certainly the word. It’s really cold here in the northeast. I keep hearing rumors of rising temperatures, but so far they are just that – rumors. I take comfort in the fact that there’s a good snow-cover insulating the garden, and inside, my wood stove is cranking out some serious […]
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