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Hi, I'm Dave and thanks for visiting. I garden in Zone 6b in southern Indiana, and I blog here about gardening, nature and food.
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Tag Archives: tostada
Featured Cooking Bean: Tiger’s Eye
This year I am on a mission to cook and eat as many different varieties of beans as possible. This is the first in a series about my observations about those beans. The yellowish brown Tiger’s Eye Beans are so … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking Beans
Tagged beans, bush beans, dry beans, featured bean, refried beans, Tiger's Eye, tostada
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Monday Recap: Orange and Green
We have made it through the winter solstice, and finally the days will slowly begin to get longer. Hooray for that! Orange and green seem to be the primary colors around here lately. It was my wife’s turn to cook … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Gardening
Tagged Asian greens, beans, bread, carrots, Good Mother Stallard, greenhouse, lacinato kale, lettuce, Monday Recap, pita, spinach, sweet potatoes, tostada
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Monday Recap: December Doldrums
The short days of December have slowed the garden down considerably here, and I have slowed along with it. We hit a spell of cold, gray days last week, which didn’t exactly help me to get going. It’s been my … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Gardening
Tagged carrots, cilantro, Gold Nugget, jicama, lacinato kale, lettuce, Monday Recap, pesto, potatoes, tostada
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Eating The Harvest
Today I thought I’d show a few photos of what we did with our harvests last week. Some of the harvests were from some time ago, like the spaghetti squash I baked one night for dinner. These Small Wonder squashes … Continue reading
