It is a different look, don’t you think? Where did all the green go? Seems like yesterday. Our garden is hibernating.
We are already preparing for upcoming new season. There is a talk of what to plant and what to skip this year, what new to try and what new tomatoes are on the market and what was good last year and what didn’t do so well. How many broccoli plants to put it and how many tomato plants should we plant. Where too look for our favorite frying peppers “Aruba”, what kind of spring onions to plant…
Summer 2012
When I said that the garden was hibernating, I meant : it is, partly.We planted garlic in the Fall 2012, covered it with a thick layer of leaves for insulation to prevent it from freezing in winter months. We should have first garlic ready to harvest in the Spring 2013. As we haven’t grown our own garlic before we both are really excited about it. I can’t wait to make my own braided garlic. It will be so beautiful.
For those who are curious, we bought locally grown garlic at a local farm, separating each clove and planting it into the ground, in October. There are about 100 of them in the ground. If all goes well, you’ll be seeing some garlic field in the Spring. I’ll make my mom’s famous garlic soup with little hand-thrown flour dumplings.
We have owls reside outside of our back yard and once in a while we are lucky to see one of them, cruising above, probably hunting for food. One time we were sitting on the porch and an huge owl landed on the lawn, it has never happened before, it was so…
I’ve been enjoying strawberries all week long, they are juicy, sweet and delicious. Eating one or two or a whole pint for a dessert is no problem. We have a rather nice crop this year but still not enough for a strawberry feast that I like. We live surrounded by farmlands and strawberry…
Today I will be sharing my experience with Baked Doughnuts. I was really excited finally to put my special cutter to use..all these years I was wondering why I bought it since I never really make doughnuts. Well perhaps this pattern is about to change in my kitchen. When growing up my grandmother made us…
Today I wanted to share with you a refreshing and very light dessert.Perfect for anytime of the year but probably best when fruit is at its ripest, in Summer this is one delicious treat and it is almost guilt free.I use fat free yogurt and fat free ricotta cheese to make the filling,…
While shopping for groceries I found a silicone honeycomb pot holder and right there I had my mind set on honeycomb cookies. I often find ordinary items and use them create different cookie designs. Honeycomb pot holder could be use with fondant or gumpaste as well. They were super easy to make and with a little decorated bee…
I decided to give you a Valentine’s gift of beautiful cookies; made by a talented cookie and cake artist Diane Drake from Drakegore Diane has been decorating cookies for several years, when I stumbled upon her work on Flickr, I was mesmerized by it instantly. Every time she posts photos of her cookie creations …