Atti’s beloved teacher has quite a green thumb, and since he knows I’m a canner and has been the recipient of many of my goodies, he brings me all kinds of wonderful things. This time I got a huge tub…
Roasted Snacking Peas
I am a snacker. My favorite meals consist of variety – an abundance of appetizers, a plentiful cheese plate – and when I’m writing I am a nearly compulsive snacker. I’ve been working away on a project behind the scenes,…
Pruning
Spring has hit me with a bang and I am absolutely starving to get my hands in some dirt. But, since we’re renting and have no idea how long we’ll be renting, there’s not much I can do about that.…
My new garden
When I was whining about leaving my garden behind, my friend Tona asked me if there was a community garden that I could participate in so I could feed my gardening addiction. I really didn’t expect to find one. Around…
2010 Year of Pleasures #18
I wrote about how leaving my garden was hard for me, but this is making it a lot easier. My new backyard has the most gloriously flowering rose bushes lining the fence. Plus we have a patch of grass for…
Spring in San Diego
I finally got outside to do the garden maintenance I had been putting off, and once I pulled out all of the poppies that had sprouted from last year’s seeds, I found these little lettuce buds hiding underneath. These will…
Parsley Oregano Vinaigrette
Every day last summer, I made a salad from the bumper crop of cherry tomatoes from my garden, some feta cheese, a cucumber, and a vinaigrette I made up from some fresh herbs in my garden. The vinaigrette keeps nicely…
2010 Year of Pleasures #7
This lemon is from my very own backyard lemon tree. The tree is so puny I can’t believe it’s even producing, but here’s the proof. I thought it was exciting the first time I used homegrown herbs, but this was…
2010 Year of Pleasures #2
It’s about time I turned my attention to my little garden plot, and it seems to have gotten started without me. I have no idea what this stuff is. After the explosion of poppies and the lettuce bolting, plus the…
Garden Bounty
This gardening thing has a real learning curve. I may have failed with sprouting seeds, but my bulbs all went off like gangbusters, and once I bought the seedlings and got them in ground, I managed to keep them alive,…