Yard Long Beans This year while searching for a heat tolerant successor to plant after the potatoes were harvested, I discovered a gem. Yard long beans (aka: asparagus beans, Chinese long beans, snake beans) are a subspecies of cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) making them siblings of the familiar southern staple blackeyed peas. The major difference being…
Enjoy Your Garden’s Bounty All Year I’ve teamed up with some of my garden blogger friends to bring you recipes, tips and ideas to preserve your harvest. These bloggers are real gardeners who preserve their harvest every season. The best part of growing your own food is eating it. However, you know that when the…
Korean Style Steamed Eggplant with a Twist One of the few ways I like to consume eggplant is a traditional Korean side dish called Gaji-Namul. It’s steamed eggplant topped with a spicy soy-scallion sauce. This side dish is served with almost every meal in a Korean household. It’s one of my favorites and I wanted…
Preserving Herbs The most popular way to preserve herbs is to dry them. I do my fair share of herb drying. I have a small dehydrator that I have been running almost daily now since my herb harvest began. I dry them in batches and vacuum seal them for later when I make my herb…
Fantastic Flavor Duo: Carrot and Dill There are herb combos that are meant to be: mint and chocolate, rosemary and garlic and dill and cucumbers. Well, most of us are familiar with that last combo. When we think of dill, pickles are usually the first food that comes to mind. Dill and potatoes are…