I cook because I love to eat. I garden because I love to cook.
I love growing garlic in my garden because it is the gift that keeps on giving. In early spring I can pick green garlic, whole immature plants that are similar to scallions, before the bulb forms into garlic cloves. July is the main harvest time …
This past weekend, my son called for the recipes for chicken tacos and guacamole. As a father who likes to cook, I am thrilled to share my recipes with him. He just finished his freshman year at college. The dorm food seemed fine; overall he …
Foraging is the art of going out in the wild to search for items to consume; think searching for wild mushrooms. If you read food magazines, you know it has become very popular lately. You can even take classes on local foraging in a lot …
A is for asparagus, the first vegetable of spring. B is for…oh, never mind. Let’s stick with asparagus for a while. It’s coming up in the garden right now and will only be here for a few weeks. It lets me know that I will …
As I started working outside a few weeks ago to get the garden ready for spring planting, I remembered from last season that some of my raised beds needed replacing. The soil in them was fine, it’s that the wood was starting to rot away, …
My 17 year-old daughter is obsessed with tacos. Like a serious teenager in love with a movie star, except it’s a taco infatuation. She searches them out at taquerias and divey Mexican restaurants wherever she goes. She’s in Brooklyn visiting friends. “What did you eat?” …
It’s early April, so it’s time to get the garden going. While there are only a handful of plants I can place in the ground now, I can start many of my summer crops inside from seed. Many gardeners prefer the ease of going to …
For me, matzo ball soup is comfort food; warm, soothing chicken soup with a big, steaming, ball of carbohydrate. When I was young, it was my grandmother – the one who wasn’t a particularly good cook – who taught me to make matzo balls. You …
As I came inside from shoveling a foot of heavy spring snow this morning, I noticed that the leaves are starting to emerge on my potted fig trees, which are still stored in the garage for winter protection. It seems everyone, including the plants, knows …
As spring approaches, the garlic that I planted in the garden last October is starting to poke up in rows from beneath its blanket of leaves. I look forward to using the abundance of garlic from my garden as I cook throughout the year. In …
