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Digging in is digging out. There was a two and a half foot drift in my walkway, and more snow to shovel all around the corner. Soaked a pound of them overnight, rinsed and then simmered them in the morning until al dente, drained them while shoveling, and then seasoned them to taste: salt, pepper, Vulcan fire salt, fresh ground cumin, then MORE fresh ground cumin, a couple pinches cardamom, a pinch of cinnamon, and then a dressing of olive oil, balsamic vinegar, and Bragg Amino Tasty! I think that if I had to do it over again, I might have simmered them in broth or cider. They canada goose store either go into a quinoa pilaf or get smacked with some lime juice and almond butter and become hummus.

I can tell you quantities on the seasonings, because that just not how I cook: I taste and add and taste and add and sometimes, if I not sure of myself, I take a big spoonful of whatever it is I seasoning and add a little official canada goose outlet bit of what I thinking of and see how it goes. And then add it to the big canada goose outlet store batch. I not a recipe cook. If I had tamari, I have added that, but I don and it just a great day to raid the pantry and see what I can come up with, with what I have, without hitting the streets or the stores.

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Now you be pickles. My friend and I combined our spice stashes, and we each took a bowlful of cherries and we set off on a pickle along. (Hey, if there can be knit alongs, there can be pickle alongs). My fridge contains three jars of little green cherry tomato pickles: One with canada goose outlet store uk some Vulcan Fire Salt added; one medium (meaning I refrained from messing with the recipe) and one mild, without onion or garlic, just for some other friends who can eat those things. I see you again in two weeks, when I surrounded with friends, and we toast Canada Goose Jackets the final end of the sunny season and the days of garden scheming to come.

Goodbye, tomatoes (and green beans you weren so prolific, but I know you did your best). See you next year.

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A time when the heat beats on the back of your neck and you don even feel it because you shoulder deep in the tomato patch, the scent of nightshade filling your nostrils, the buzz of happy bees in your ears, your hands pulling everything you can that has even a hint of red or yellow or purplish back and popping them into your mouth right there, warm from the sun

But you know about all that, don you, gardeners?So canada goose outlet does Mindy Makuta, whowas one of the$2,500 grand prize winning chefsinSaturday Nature Sweet Tomato home grown tomato contest and cook off. I be posting Mindy recipe later this week, but here her paean to the canada goose jacket outlet love apple that got her a place among the finalists, which also included Kathy Shreve and Leland Wagner (whose killer tomato chutney and tomato coulis, respectively, I also post.) And oh! the tomatoes we lucky judges tasted! Another canada goose outlet online uk judge and I turned to one another in amazement when a Sungold popped in our mouths with, I kid you not, a flavor akin to a Rocky Ford cantaloupe. There no time like the present, no season like tomato harvest, and no flavor that takes you back to the garden like a tomato.

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The winner of our recipe contest and its prize of ayear membership at the Denver Botanic Gardens is Jeanne Marie Oliver of Longmont, who knows this magic combination well. Her own garden is indoors and hydroponic yes, the familiar AeroGarden; a couple ofDenver Post staffers have them, and they keep these folks supplied withfresh herbs all winter. Jeanne Marie grows mostly basil in it ( grew the other herbs the first time through, but realized how much we really liked and used the basil, so Istuck with that, she says). She to harvest basil aboutevery other week. She sets up small dishes of capers, grated parmesan, chopped kalamata olives,green onions andtomatoes. You could adapt the conceptfor canada goose outlet sale carnivores with crunchy bits of pancetta or good ham, steamed or grilled asparagus chunks, caramalized cipollini onions, crumbled chevre, slivers of dry salame. Or with home grown Thai basil and rice noodles (and add in dishes of bean cheap canada goose sprouts, shiitakes, cilantro, etc The only limit is your imagination.

Here Jeanne Marie winning recipe, which is so simple you just about have to make it.

1 pound of pasta (campanelle is her favorite shape)

1 tablespoon lime (or lemon) juice

Cook pasta and drain. Set the table with your favorite pasta accessories. On medium heat, add butter to pasta pot; cook until melted. Turn the heat down to low; add the pasta, basil and lime juice. Toss until it all coated; then bring it to the table warm.

Want to grow your own basil from seed? Remember thatbasil does NOT like it cold. A kiss of frost is pretty much the kiss of death for it; temps below 65 will make transplants pouty. So if you starting it now, be prepared to baby it indoors for a good while. (When I plant mine, I put it in my south facing brick planterfor extra insurance against cold nights). It germinates quite happily from seed indoors, but put it in the warmest room for best results; it likes the starting medium around 70 degrees.

One more reason to plant basil: Sweet corn. My garden buddy Sheron has many divine culinary tricks in her vast repertoire, Canada Goose sale but one of her best is basil lime butter on sweet corn. Buzz equal amounts of butter and olive oil in the food processor and add basil and lime juice and zest. We let other folks grow the corn, but having goose outlet canada something homegrown on it makes it yummier.

Says Sara: can take credit for the gardening, only the photography. I live in Canada Goose online a condo, so I find vicarious joy in preserving the beauty from other people gardens. Congrats, Sara!

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