There is no feeling like that of being overwhelmed with freshly-picked garden-fresh produce. It’s something you want to revel in — that sensation of abundance, the freshness, the deliciousness — but, before long, what sets in is panic. What in the world am I going to do with all this squash, all these cucumbers, 20…
Kitchen Gardening
Food Preservation: Yellow Squash Edition
When thinking about canning, I have to resist my first impulse to think of it as a grandmotherly-type activity. Even seeing things in Mason jars makes me think “old lady.” Yet, canning, like knitting and making your own cheese, is what all the hip young people are doing these days. Right? Seriously, though, with the…
My Dad’s Harvest
We go to my Dad’s place in E. Texas quite regularly, and, the past couple of months, we’ve settled into a routine. As soon as we wake up on Saturday, often before breakfast, we head out to the half-acre he’s plowed into a garden. At first, it was readying the area, or putting plants or…
The Ugly Peach
This may just be the ugliest peach in the world. But, underneath that fuzzy grizzled exterior is the peachiest flavor you could ever possibly encounter. It was grown, not in California like most of the peaches consumed in the United States, but, instead in Stonewall, Texas, a burg with a population of 469 best known…