Southwestern Sweet Potato and Black Bean Salad

A while back, I  came up with a recipe fora sweet potato salad that a friend with a number of food restrictions would be able to enjoy.  Due to health issues, he was avoiding gluten, dairy, eggs, sugar, all citrus, corn and tomatoes.

This fit the bill on all fronts, and is hearty enough to have for [...]

Sorry teacher, the rabbit ate my beans! Summer Fest 2009, Week 3

Here we are near the end of Week 3 of SummerFest, 2009, and the theme this week is Greens and Beans.  Well, I’m sad to say I don’t have a lot of beans!

What!!! you say, haven’t you been gardening?  What’s wrong with you?

Well, this year in the garden, has been the year of the rabbit … [...]

May garden update: a garden on steriods!

The weird weather continues here: sunny days, but cool evenings and nights.  Just over a week ago, we had quite a stretch of wet, cool weather, and then all of a sudden, a week’s worth of sunny days, so things have been growing like crazy.  Here’s a bit of video footage from a traipse around the [...]

April video garden update

The title says it all.   I got a new Flip, so thought that it would be easier to walk around the garden rather than sit down and list off all the things happening in the garden.  Cameo appearances by Kimi and Eric.

Weather is warming up and veggies are finally starting to grow!  Yay!

April Garden [...]

Stuff coming up in the garden

Well, the weather here has been pretty crappy, but despite the cold temps, spring appears to be on its way (albeit very slowly!).   Spent some time today filling the new beds with the last of the SeaSoil – i had hoped that there would be enough remaining from the 2-yard delivery to finish filling the extra [...]