Cream of Watercress Soup

Someday, I would like to leave the city. Move out to a little house on some great land, settle down, and get a farm going. I’d like to end up somewhere with some life to it; some history and some wilderness and some magic. Such a place is Preston Ranch. Rick and I were invited…

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Celery Root

Celery root. Not one of the more glamorous characters on the produce aisle, surely. I mean – this is the part you DON’T eat when you grow celery for the stalks, right? Strange stringy-looking bulbs with little head-sprouts of greenery…they kind of look like those awful screaming mandrake-babies from the Harry Potter movies. But oh…

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Spinach-Basil Pesto

A few weeks ago I was gifted a few rather large bags of basil. Maybe four or five gallons, loose? I dunno. It was a lot of basil. An overwhelming amount. Generally I would be totally excited about this – I LOVE basil. But the truth is, I have so little time these days that…

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Stuffed Zucchini

I suppose I should actually title this post “What to Do with Too Much of a Good Thing”, but I don’t think that’ll fit in the title box. Still, it’s an appropriate title. Zucchini is delicious. It’s one of the first “summer” veggies that come up in our climate (San Francisco/Bay Area), and I’m always…

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Summer Couscous Salad

Well, it’s officially summer now. Not only because it has FINALLY stopped raining, but because the produce I am getting from my garden and my CSA box tells me so. No, I don’t actually hear little veggie voices telling me to start canning… …well, not yet anyway. The season is young. I was away at…

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