It’s the end of January and we had a brief respite from cold and snow, but now it’s back to the teens and the white is everywhere. I finished ordering the last of my seeds and the pictures have me pining to dig in the dirt. Something to look forward to! New Recipes This Week [...]
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Tomato Gorgonzola Soup
2 onions, chopped 2 carrots, chopped garlic (to taste, a few cloves, through a garlic press) 3-4 tbsp. olive oil handful of basil, chopped tomatoes, depending on how many people, allow for 2 roma’s or one large hothouse per person 3 c. chicken stock salt/pepper at least 1/2 c. cream (will vary based on consistency [...]
Second Week of January, 2010
New Recipes for this Week French Onion Soup — Barefoot Contessa — incredible, the best ever — substituted gruyere though for parmesan (it is a French soup after all) Butternut Squash Soup — a family favorite: saute onion in butter, throw in 16oz. of squash, cover with chicken stock, cook until soft, buzz down with [...]
My Spring Garden
There’s 6 inches of snow on the ground this January morning and yet I’m immersed in seed catalogs and companies trying to determine what I want to grow in our garden this spring. I’m very excited! Even though we put in our very first garden last year, we got to it in early summer and [...]