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New seasons

There is a For Sale sign in my front yard. I was at home the afternoon it went up – a friendly guy stopped by to make sure we were indeed selling our home before he installed it. As we chatted back and forth for a minute, he said he hoped this was a happy occasion. As it turns out, it is! My husband, Sean, and I are selling our sweet home, leaving our workplace and heading out on an adventure. (Don’t fret, dear reader, Blaise is coming too!)

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Adventures can be hard to come by these days, there are always more important things to do. Things to take care of and bills to pay. But for sometime now, I’ve been feeling the pull of something more creative. I’ve been so happy to have spots like this blog or Instagram to share some of my creative pursuits. Over time, I’ve come to wonder if I couldn’t find a way to incorporate more of that creativity into my daily life.

Which is where we come to the part of me jumping out of the boat – I decided to leave it all, the consistent routine, the house and steady job, and strike out with the intent of doing something new. We’re moving back to Canada to be close to family and to take a minute to just breathe and reorganize ourselves. We don’t know where we will end up, maybe around the corner from my childhood home, maybe on another continent. 

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For many reasons, the uncertainty of my life at this moment brings me back to my garden. Most days when I find myself wondering about just what it is we are setting out to do, I go sit in the garden. Awhile back when I realized that I might not see a full growing season in this garden, I started to adapt my plan for just what I would plant. There seemed to be little point in devoting a good chunk of the garden to dahlias and tomatoes, both favorite garden additions, but always hitting their prime in the later part of the season. Instead, I wanted to play up the parts that I could likely enjoy in the early part of summer. In the midst of my sadness over leaving this garden, I have been steadfast in my plan to enjoy every single moment I am afforded there. 

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mixed-greens

The newcomers to the garden this year include the okra and carrots, both planted with the younger generation in mind. And last but not least, the Padron peppers. These beauties are a hands-down favorite at our house. Lightly charred in oil and seasoned with flaky salt, we enjoy these peppers while seated in the garden, with cups of Cava in hand. This is the way the Spanish do it, I’m told, and I am not going to mess with that tradition. Fingers crossed I have at least one of those meals to come this summer.

Either way, I remind myself that there will be other gardens. Already, I have some ideas of what I might do differently in a future space. Just the other day, I optimistically bought some seeds to plant for a fall harvest of maché. But the location of that garden is still to be determined. I’ll find it one day – build, plant and harvest from it.

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I recently attended a graduation ceremony, listening as attentively as I could after hours of ceremony, to the advice that was doled out on the graduates. It seemed somehow appropriate for me as well, starting out on my own new adventure. The snippet that stuck with me all of these days later was from someone sharing advice from a fortune cookie…”A thrilling adventure awaits you, be on your guard.”

So, here I go, with my jumble of jubilance and uncertainty, only knowing that out there, a new life awaits me. I’m ready!

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Green grows the garden

It’s early evening in the garden. The sun is low on the horizon and the warmth of the day is beginning to fade. For some reason, this is the time of day when dozens of dragonflies make an appearance in the sky about my yard. I see them here every year in the summer. They dip and zoom through the air as they search for food, or whatever it is they are swarming over. This is about the time I turn on my new garden lights.

lights

There are a couple of new additions to the garden this year, plantings of zucchini, cucumber, nasturtium and cheery overhead lights. I’ve devised a plan to hang strands of lights, zigzagging back and forth across the garden on the same stakes I put up for the plants. Since we are often our relaxing in the garden in the dusky evening, I think the lights are going to be a great addition to our enjoyment of the space.

free-range-lettuce

My garden seems to be doing a very good job at reflecting life this year. Parts of it are planned and organized with neat straight rows and even spacing. I’ve been working towards the best way to create green “walls” around the garden with pole beans, towering tomatoes and colorful dahlias. It’s taken a few years, but I think I’m getting this figured out! Other plants are randomly taking over the pathways, like the lettuce stalk that went to seed last summer, tossing hundreds of seeds out amongst the gravel. Turns out that I am getting some really lovely heads of lettuce from this random seed placement. Same story with the arugula that has been growing so rapidly that I’ve resorted to sharing bags of it with friends to keep up with its growth.

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The lettuce and arugula have been a wonderful start to the season. Along with those volunteer crops, I have been tending to an early salad garden with generous plantings of kale, mizuna, pretty speckled lettuces and my favorite French breakfast radishes. My salad bowl is a pretty delicious place this time of year.

blossoms

I am also giving the English peas another shot this year. I swore I wasn’t going to waste precious garden space on them again after last year’s dismal showing. The plants came up only to fall to some terrible pea pestilence before any pods reached maturity. But it’s funny what a winter’s worth of grey will do to my resolve. So with a new variety of seeds and a little crop rotation, my fingers are crossed for a better outcome this year.

Where ever you are this season, I hope a little spot of green – farmer’s market, community garden, herb pot in the window or acres of vegetables – crosses your path this summer.

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Radish salad with spring greens

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A few weeks back, I mentioned my radish craze. Each season, I feel like I cannot get enough of the spring-fresh roots, so I plant them all throughout the garden. Staggering the plantings across several weeks, I am always hoping for a steady supply of radishes until the summer heat gets the better of them. As luck would have it, my first planting of radishes grew out of control this year.

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Radishes are one of those garden crops that are fast. Twenty two days from planting until harvest, boasts my seed packet. It may not be quite true, but I didn’t bother counting. In the early stages of spring, 22 days sounds like another season. But there they came, those hardy first seedlings pushed out of the ground with determination and haven’t looked back. So when I came back from another weekend away, more than 22 days later, my ombre french breakfast radishes were a little bigger than desirable. I felt some dedication to the radishes, my first harvest of the season. So I carefully pulled them up, left their leafy foliage in the garden and scrubbed away the last bits of dirt that clung to the roots.

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If you have ever seen a radish grow past it’s prime, you’ll know what I mean when I say they can get a little spongy inside. But I was still determined to get to use the radishes. So I put together a salad recipe that I hoped would save them. And even though we’ve eaten our way through the giant radishes, we’re still enjoying variations of this salad with the more appropriately sized roots!

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I have also been using a recent addition to my pantry in this salad. Browsing the vinegar section of a local grocery store, (I know, who goes searching out vinegar for fun!) I found a store brand bottle of rosé vinegar. Being a bit of a rosé enthusiast, I couldn’t pass it up. Deliciously pink, the vinegar has a bit of a sweet hint. It adds a lovely flavor to the radish quick pickle, but if you can’t find any, I can’t help but think a champagne or similarly mild vinegar would work out just fine.

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Radish and spring green salad

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Serves 2

Radishes, about 8, thinly sliced and cut into matchsticks
1 tablespoon rosé vinegar
Sprinkle of salt
2 cups mixed greens, baby arugula, pea shoots, fresh herbs, etc.
1 tablespoon olive oil
Salt and pepper to taste
2 chunks of feta cheese

Combine radishes, vinegar and salt in a small bowl and let sit for at least 10 minutes. Toss radishes with salad greens and olive oil and arrange on two plates. Season to taste. Top with the feta cheese and serve.

 

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A grilled salad for summer

It seems like we have been everywhere but home lately. For the last month or so, we’ve packed up and piled into the car most weekends, bound for some destination or other. We’ve seen family and city, spent time camping and celebrating anniversaries. And while I love my fair share of travel, it has put a small crimp in my garden planting routines this spring.

I am happy to report that everything is finally in the ground as of just a few days ago. I might be a little late this year, but I think everything will pull through nicely. Instead of a weekend activity spread over a day or two, it took weeks this year. And my little plot is relatively small. Planting the garden has crept into my week night routines, planting a tomato start or two before dinner or sowing another row of radishes in the early morning before heading off to work. Seriously, people, these things happened!

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The radishes are usually the first things I try to get into the garden. The very best radishes always seem to be the early ones, pulled from the ground in the still-cool spring, snappy and crisp. So as soon as the garden is mapped out, in they go. I get a little anxious with radishes—will there be enough for me to get my fill and share? Since their season seems to be so short, I plant them everywhere I can. Here is a little space between the tomatoes and the peppers—it won’t be open space for long, but the radishes will be long eaten and enjoyed before the other plants have filled that space.

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The other thing that happens early in the season is our transition to outdoor meals. Weather permitting, we eat almost all of our meals on the patio from May until about September. Maybe October, depending on the day. We’ve already had several meals outside, long afternoon lunches in the spring sun and evening drinks with friends. But it seems like we’ve settled into a good routine and we’re outside every night now. It’s kind of hard to keep the dining room table clear when we’re not eating there much, though.

We also dusted off the barbecue. Now that we’ve reached the long weekends of May, it is almost a requirement! I love this salad for rounding out a meal cooked on the grill. The salad can be prepped quickly and added to the grill at the last minute for a fast finish.

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Grilled romaine lettuce salad

Serves 2 per head of lettuce

Wash and trim lettuce. Slice head in half lengthwise and season with a drizzle of olive olive and sprinkle of freshly ground black pepper. Place lettuce, cut side down, on a hot grill and cook until char marks appear, 3 to 5 minutes. Turn and cook a few minutes longer. Serve warm with caesar dressing, lemon wedges, freshly grated Parmesan cheese and more black pepper.

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The first frost

I just about cried when I realized that the frost got my garden the other night. I suppose one might say that I’ve grown a little too attached to my garden. And now that I think about it, it’s not so much the garden I was missing, it was my dahlias. Fall is the best time for the dahlias—the colors get more brilliant and the blooms are plentiful. In the cool fall air, the blooms out in the garden seem to last forever, usually right up until the end of October around here.  I hoped for one more sunny afternoon in the garden with a magazine and a drink under those happy plants. It’s always just “one more,” right? But there they were, gone just a few days into October. The only flowering plant that remains untouched is nestled up beside the house, still wildly vibrant in the crisp air.

It’s not just the garden—a little planted patch of land in the backyard. It’s the stillness of digging in the cool earth on a sunny morning, pulling weeds, gathering greens and other goodness that I’ve been nurturing. I think it transports me. It’s a quiet place to think amidst the swirl of my daily activities. I miss that when I’m not in the garden.

In the middle of all of this sadness about the end of another gardening season, I’ve been thinking about all that I love about the autumnal season. After all, I do have an extensive scarf collection that’s just waiting for the cool weather. I love turning on the oven for most evening meals, roasting, braising and baking warmth and deliciousness into the cold night. Sunny afternoon walks crunching through the falling leaves. Long evenings when it is a tough choice between a hot bath or a good book and a pot of tea. Not to mention how cozy my slippers feel right now.

Not everything in my garden has been frosted yet. Oddly enough, there is still plenty of basil that made it through the chilly nights. In my experience, that is usually the first thing to go, so at the first threat of frost, I was out in the garden collecting armloads of basil to make pesto. Silly me, I should have been picking flowers. Happily the mint and the strawberries are growing steadily in the cool weather. Turns out all is not lost, I can still enjoy some delicious Moroccan mint tea and handfuls of tiny strawberries.

So when the warm weather hit this past weekend, I decided not to delay any longer on that pitcher of sangria I’d been planning on all summer. The ingredients have been seasonally adjusted to include apples and cider as crisp and refreshing as an autumn afternoon. I’m hoping there are more glorious days of fall for you to enjoy this recipe!

Hard Cider Sangria

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1 small apple, quartered and thinly sliced

1 navel orange, quartered and thinly sliced

1 1/2 cups chilled apple juice

2 tablespoons fresh squeezed lemon juice

1/4 cup brandy

1 22-oz. bottle of hard apple cider

In a pitcher, combine the sliced apples and oranges. Add the chilled apple juice, lemon juice and brandy. Allow the flavors to meld in the fridge, if time allows.

Just before serving, add the cider to the pitcher and stir to combine. Spoon some of the prepared fruit into tall glasses and fill with ice. Top with the apple cider mixture.

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Time for tapas

I’ve been working up to this moment for over a year now. Everyone needs something to work toward, right? See, it was about one year ago when I went out to dinner at this lovely little restaurant. And while everything I ate was amazing, it all started out with the most delicious appetizer ever. In fact, I’d go so far as to say that it was the appetizer that stole my heart that evening.

Really it was the simplest thing ever—a pile of flash fried Padron peppers, dressed in a generous sprinkle of crunchy sea salt and served up piping hot. The only reasonable thing to do was dig in, which I did with little hesitation, leaving poor seconds for my dining companion! I’d never had Padron peppers before, only heard little mentions here and there on food blogs. But I knew enough to order them up just as soon as I saw them. Since then, I’ve been trying to figure out how to get my hands on my own supply of peppers.

The dead of winter doesn’t really seem like the most promising time to be thinking about peppers. But when you’re trying to track down seeds for something unusual like Padron peppers, you do what you have to do. Online searching, researching and ordering got me the seeds I needed and long before the first signs of spring began to show themselves outside, I started my own little indoor pepper garden. Fast forward to July and the plants began to stagger over the green beans in the garden, ladened with peppers. That’s when things really got tasty out in the garden!

At least once a week, there are enough peppers to feed the three of us. In fact, regular picking is important so things don’t get too spicy. It’s become a bit of an event, the evening we pick the peppers and have some tapas in the garden before I head back into the kitchen to finish up with dinner prep. It is a nice change of pace and I think I’ve shared my love of the peppers with a certain little boy!

In the only way I know how to cook the peppers, I heat a large skillet with a slick of oil on high heat. When it’s gathered enough heat, I throw in the peppers and slap down a lid to contain the splattering and hissing that immediately begins. Don’t crowd the peppers or they will just steam. You don’t want that. With enough room, they fry up nicely. Toss or shake the pan occasionally, but don’t be afraid of developing a little bit of a scorch of some sides of the peppers. Once the peppers puff up and some nice color developes, about 5 to 7 minutes, remove the peppers from the pan. Arrange them on a serving platter and sprinkle generosly with sea salt. Serve immediately, preferably with a glass of cava.

Two notes to finish things up:

  • Once you’ve bothered to heat up a frying pan on a hot summer evening, consider finishing up some other dinner item in the pan once the peppers are done. Last night I threw in a few ears of cut corn kernels, which blackened up nicely in just a minute or two. Before that, I sautéed a few handfuls of green beans. Yummy!
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I’ll be in the garden

In honor of Julia Child’s birthday, I wanted to make something fabulous. All French and full of delicious flavors. But time got away from me and since it seemed to be gougères or nothing for me, I decided to forgo the fancy cooking and instead make something a little simpler to enjoy in the garden. This recipe totally fit the bill.

And instead of telling you all about the lovely tian that I made with Julia’s recipe, I thought I’d tell you about the garden, where it seems I’m spending every moment that I’m not in the kitchen.

The garden is an honorary room in our house throughout the summer months. And in the winter months, I can still be found dreaming of that space! In the middle of two raised beds, I managed to fit a little table and chairs, which makes it the perfect spot for al fresco living. Meals and conversations are often carried out to the garden where we balance little plates and glasses in the growing shade of the tomato and dahlia plants. And at this time of year, something on our plates has likely very recently come from garden. Once 5 p.m. rolls around, there is no better place to be than in the garden.

Of course, the garden isn’t just a place to lounge in the shade. In fact, the early morning hours might just be my favorite time of day in the garden. In the cool stillness, I trim away at the tomatoes, pick handfuls of purple romano beans and collect greens for hardy summer salads. I think the greens are at their best in the early mornings. And even though my greens are transitioning to a more hardy fall mix, they still get a little wilted once they’ve spent a few hours basking in the sun.

The other things I try to pick early in the day are the dahlias. I don’t know why that is—likely some old plant wisdom or maybe even a bit of folklore. But any flower picking that happens is kept to those hours when the sun is not overhead. And now that I mention it, maybe there is an element of self-preservation in there as well!

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A few simple things…

We’re in the thick of summer here. Sunshine and blue skies followed by long, warm evenings, perfect for stargazing from the hammock. The daylight is starting to change a little with a golden hue that reminds me that we are in the midst of a fleeting season. Along with all of this goodness, the garden is starting to come together. Things are growing and beginning to tangle just a bit—the beans wandering into the peppers, the tall cavolo nero shading the little seedlings and the tomatoes, oh, the tomatoes. They can hardly contain themselves, arching over the beds and shading the pathway from six feet up.

It’s easy to get wrapped up with the fresh harvest with most meals. Oftentimes, all I can muster for dinner is a giant bowl of salad, plucked fresh from the garden or toted home from a market adventure. But sometimes in the midst of all this freshness, I crave a change of pace with something savory and cooked. And not just a little swish in the frying pan or bath of salty steam. This craving calls for an hour of gentle simmering on the back corner of the stove.

Actually, this dish is perfect for those late summer meals where you might have other things going on in the kitchen, but still want dinner. Since it requires little prep work, it pairs perfectly with a canner of peaches bubbling away or a small pot of apricot jam, just to name a few. This is one of those recipes that makes the most of precious little—quality ingredients and a little time. Mixed together, they yield the most delicious results.

Beans with tomato sauce

Adapted from Canal House, An Italian Summer

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1/2 pound, or 8 oz.,  fresh green beans, washed and trimmed

About 2 cups strained canned tomatoes, juice reserved

Two or three sprigs of fresh basil

1/4 cup olive oil, or thereabouts

Salt and pepper, to taste

Wash the green beans and the basil. Combine the tomatoes, beans, basil and olive oil in a medium pot with a tight fitting lid. Bring to a gentle boil before turning heat down to a simmer. Cover tightly and allow to cook for about one hour, stirring occasionally and adding the reserved tomato juice if the mixture begins to look to dry, you want it to be nice and saucy! Add salt and pepper to taste.

Serve the beans, along with plenty of sauce. They are a perfect topping for pasta or go well alongside most anything else you might be serving.

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Tasting a Memory

Everyone has a dish or two that comes loaded with memory. Chances are that when you stop and think about it, there may be a whole handful of foods that fall into that category. Maybe it tastes like summer or reminds of a special event or time. Either way, you revisit it to remember that feeling or keep a tradition alive. Maybe it is an infrequent event—special ingredients are required or a lot of preparation is needed. Or maybe it is a weekly event—a special menu that is prepared no matter what.

I’ve got my fair share of those meals myself. There are plenty of food memories that come from my childhood, like the spaghetti dinners Tina talked about here, or the Friday night waffle routine that some of us still might be scarred by! But I don’t think that anyone is afraid of this springtime favorite. As a kid, I remember my mom making this dinner in the late spring with the freshest vegetables we had picked from the garden. And while I can’t speak authoritative of where this dish comes from, it seems to me that it might come from my mom’s side of the family. I think I’ve heard that my grandmother made this dish when my mom was a child.

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I am not quite sure if this should be called a soup or a stew. Or maybe it is more of a medley of spring vegetables in a cream sauce. Either way, I remember it being ladled out into bowls at dinnertime, finished with a generous sprinkle of dill. While I don’t remember if anything else came along with the vegetables as a kid, I’ve played with a few different variations in the years since. Sometimes the vegetable portions favor the potatoes, who can hold their own in this dish. Biscuits were a big hit last summer in a veggie-centric version of biscuits and gravy. On this particular evening, I went with a small pasta in hopes that it would be kid-friendly. This summer, I can’t wait to try a cornbread.  And with only a few days until the next farmers markets and the official start of summer, I can’t wait to try it again.

 

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Patio lantern

It is finally beginning to feel like spring is just around the corner and lucky for me the last couple of Fridays have been lovely, sunny and perfect for doing a little patio gardening. Last summers attempt at growing a few vegetables was an all out fail, so this year it is all flowers for me.

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