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Category Archives: Vegetables
The Tailor & The Cook Revisited: Followed By Season 3 With No Kitchen
I rarely do follow-up reviews of restaurants, usually I’m a one review girl and then move on. (Julia’s Kitchen, a restaurant I absolutely loved in Napa before it closed, is the one exception to this rule.) I have also never … Continue reading
Posted in Cheese, chicken, cooking, Dessert, Fish, Renovation, Vegetables
Tagged cooking, dining in, eating out, fish, new kitchen, renovation, restaurants in central new york, shrimp
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More Garlic And A Field Gone Wild With A Few Movie Memories Thrown In
When the leaves turn red, yellow and orange in this neck of the woods, they truly are spectacular. Which is why I now understand, why “going to see the leaves” can and will command top dollar if you want to … Continue reading
The Fall Clean-Up: Surprise Finds
It’s a vicious cycle trying to grow vegetables for it seems as soon as the last bean/tomato/garlic is harvested, you have to start preparing the soil to plant something that will appear in the spring. While we managed to pull … Continue reading
Posted in Flowers, Gardening, Garlic, The Property, Vegetables
Tagged baby carrots, fall clean-up, finding potatoes, garden clean-up, pruning, raking
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Fried Green Tomatoes: The Garden So Far
It’s been very very hot up at the Red House and even with the complicated sprinkler system Lynn has set up, some things are being watered, others are not. (Half the garden is on a timer, half is not, half … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, Vegetables
Tagged dry garden, fried green tomatoes, gardening, sunflowers, zucchini flowers
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My Aching Back: A Temporary Kitchen Sink And A Garden Growing Slowly
I decided the old farm sink that was held together by duct tape on top of some sort of cabinet had to go. So we corralled someone who was doing a different home repair project for us one day to … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, kitchen, Vegetables
Tagged aching back, gardening, growing garlic, growing lettuce, new kitchen sink, old kitchen sink
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A Grilling Weekend
Since the weather has warmed up a bit we decided it would be ok to pull out the grill and cook. First we had to drag the grill out of the garage, hose it off, and then check the propane … Continue reading
Posted in chicken, Fish, Grilling, Vegetables
Tagged cooking on a grill, cooking outdoors, pesto, shrimp
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Garlic Is Growing
While its been a mild winter and bone dry, the garlic is growing up at the Red House — lots of cute little green shoots poking up through the soil which is encouraging. Not so encouraging is the amount of … Continue reading
Posted in Flowers, Gardening, The Property, Vegetables
Tagged deer, fencing, garlic, hostas, hydrangeas, vegetable garden
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Preparing For Winter (And Craving Chicken Pot Pie)
The great thing about being in upstate New York is that the weather is so unpredictable. (I love change and I love surprises even weather-related ones.) About a month ago we woke to a few last colorful leaves on the … Continue reading
Posted in Baking, chicken, Construction, Uncategorized, Vegetables
Tagged chicken pot pie, couscous, early snow, insulating the red house, snow, the winter
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The Last Grill of The Season
Columbus Day weekend was warm and sunny and I figured it would be the last decent weekend for grilling outside. I didn’t want to go crazy with the “last grill,” but there were a few things I wanted to make … Continue reading
Posted in chicken, Fish, Grilling, Pasta, Vegetables
Tagged arugula, beets, cornish hens, grilled pizza
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Bring It On Food Network
This time last year we still had a somewhat functioning stove (if you could call two burners on an old kitchen range a stove), so that winter weekends at the Red House could at least yield a bowl of soup. … Continue reading
Posted in chicken, Eggs, Fish, kitchen, Vegetables
Tagged cooking without a kitchen, one burner cooking, single flame cooking, wok cooking
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