Food as a Gift of Yourself
Gardens are all about relationships. Relationship with the land, the soil, the organisms that live in the soil, and the plants that grow in the soil. It’s about pretty flowers and fragrant herbs,...
View ArticleMore Holiday Food Gift Goodies
In the post Food as a Gift of Yourself I talked a little about how much friends and family look forward to the holiday candy, cookie and cake gifts they get every year from Garden Granny. And while...
View ArticleAunt Granny’s Grape Jam Butter Cookies
…And another vermin-control tidbit To finish up this series of posts about gifts of food for the holidays [Here and Here], I’d like to share a perennial favorite recipe that makes good use of some of...
View ArticleDo It Yourself Gourmet: Finishing Salts
I know, I know. What the heck is a “finishing salt?” Those of us who don’t get out much – preferring to stay at home and get very dirty in our gardens (so gorgeous this time of year!) – generally...
View ArticleSome Summertime Favorites
Fire Up That Grill! The first of the Summertime gatherings occurred last weekend – Memorial Day – when our youngest daughter, her handsome hubby and brand new baby Sunshine came for some home-time with...
View ArticleMore To Do With Tomatoes and Peppers
June is quickly wrapping up, and July will soon be upon us. For gardeners, these months begin the tomato and pepper harvest. Which doesn’t end around here for my indeterminate varieties until August,...
View ArticleBlackberry Bounty
Regular as clockwork and entirely predictable, this year’s bumper crop of blackberries is busy turning black and sweet day by day, will be ripening in rushes all the way up the continental divide...
View ArticleWhat’s for Dessert?
Banana Apple Cake… Yum! Over the last few weeks both my husband and a couple of friends who stopped by have brought with them bunches of slightly overripe bananas that have been seriously on sale at...
View ArticleThe Late Garden Greenies!
My garden is almost to bed for the winter, though I’ve still to shovel out the older compost onto the terraces and rake the tons of leaves that are still busy covering my landscape to cover them. But...
View ArticleThose Valuable Fruitcake Cookies
It’s that holiday time again, so this year I’m going to give up my secret recipe for the fruitcake cookies that my youngest grandson has been using for several years at his charter school to trade for...
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