Working From Home Lunch
Chard, beet greens, garlic chives, baby radishes, herbs, flowers from the garden; pantry items
Wheat Berries with Beet Greens, Garlic Chives, and Feta Cheese
Pantry items, long storage organic cheese, greens from the garden. As I eat these simple, inexpensive, nutritious meals, I ask myself: How much do I need? What kind of economy do I want to support for when we can go… (READ MORE)
State of the Garden
The young leaves of the Shasta daisy can be eaten like salad greens.
Chickpea Salad on Pita With Homegrown Sprouts, Radish Shoots, and Cress
Chickpeas coarsely mashed can be treated like tuna or chicken salad. If all you have is a countertop, it’s still possible to grow your own sprouts. Pita bread was store bought and stored in the freezer.
State of the Garden
Chickpea and Vegetable Masala With Brown Basmati Rice, Garlic Chives, and Radish Sprouts
Pantry items, aging long-keeping vegetables, new things from the garden. Inspired by the title of a recipe in today’s Washington Post.
Veggie Chili with Brown Rice and Red Cabbage and Broccoli Stem Slaw
The beans were the last of last year’s beans out of the freezer, the squash was the last of last year’s squash. Everything else was a long storage vegetable or a pantry item.
Brown Rice and Millet Ramen in Spicy Bone Broth with Garden Greens, Roasted Winter Squash and Peanuts (Dried Pasta and Greens Variation)
State of the Garden
Growing some of your own food–even if just herbs on the countertop–connects us to the earth and the rhythm of growing things and to the place we are inhabiting. And if we all grew some of the basics, what needs… (READ MORE)
Ritual etc.
Hoppin’ John with the greens available from the garden