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Onions are one of my favorite crops. They don’t require much attention, they’re delicious at every stage of growth, and they repel aphids and other predatory insects. Onions take a long time to mature, however. This time is greatly reduced by planting onion sets or bare root plants. I prefer the sets. I fertilize once before [...]
Yesterday I picked lettuce again. I took the outer leaves from every plant and it took me about 30 minutes. I harvested enough lettuce to completely fill my garden basket and the plants still look pretty much the same! We had a big salad last night for dinner and I have [...] My mother was a terrific cook, and her love of making great food rubbed off on all three of us kids. My brother Dick is a bit of a culinary genius and loves to tinker in the kitchen. Here’s one of my favorite recipes of his. Grocery store produce works for this, but in the [...] This is another of Jamie Oliver’s great dishes. It’s truly brave cooking. Everyone I’ve turned on to this recipe has made it one of their family regulars. It’s so good, your family will want seconds. Make more than you think you’ll need; the leftovers are great cold! Ingredients 3 lbs waxy potatoes (I use red), cut [...] This is my mother’s engagement photo, published in the Hammond Times in August, 1940 This was one of her favorite salads. Any large sweet onion will do for this recipe. I prefer fresh Florida onions when I can find them, but Walla Walla, Sweet Texas and Vidalia onions all work with this. 1 or [...] Mmmmmmm. I love onions. Now I’m not talking about grocery store onions. They’ll do in a pinch, but there is nothing quite like a spring onion fresh from the garden. By spring onion, I mean an onion that’s not yet mature, looks like a very fat scallion, and is bursting with all flavor and very [...] |
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