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Flavored Waters

Hi Folks,

I've been creating and collecting ideas for flavored waters for quite a few years - they call them 'vitamin waters' these days :-)  Homemade is best don't you think?

Anyway, I've done lemon and spearmint; rosemary and lime; cilantro and lime;

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Tomatillo Recipes

In my quest to Do Something with my abundant tomatillo harvest, I scoured the 'net for recipes and found this one.  I have not made the entire enchilada recipe yet but created the sauce yesterday and we ate it over tamales.  Great!!  The only thing I

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Making Use of Grape Leaves

My Thompson Seedless is growing nicely, and before the grape leaf skeletonizers and white flies hit, I thought I'd try and make use of some of the beautiful glossy green leaves it is putting out.  For supper the other night, I used some of them to wr

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Squash blossom storage tip

My squash plants have started blooming, but so far only male flowers.  I hate to see them go to waste, so I've been harvesting them to use in salad, soup, or best of all, stuffed with cream cheese and pan fried!

I'm wanting to make squash blossom soup

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Artichoke ribs

Since this has come up a few times recently, I thought I would post up about it in here.

I recently culled the bottom four leaves from my monstrous artichoke plant. I stripped off the leafy bits, and tossed them in the compost bin. Previously, I have

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Cheesey Broccoli Patties

Here is a link to a cheesey broccoli patty recipe. It sounds like the zucchini recipe in the forums.  I thought it would be fun to play around with combinations of veggies from your garden in this recipe.  I have not tried it yet, but I definately pl

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Eating Moss????

Is anyone familiar with edible moss?

When I was little my  mother would cook the tree like growth that sprang from moss.  It had a wonderful nutty mushroom flavor.  I am trying to identity what this tree like moss was and where I can get it.  I have t

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