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greenhouse Eliot Eliot No replies yet February 4, 2011 14:28

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Roasted Corn, Pepper and Tomato Chowder

Roasted Corn, Pepper and Tomato Chowder by Eliot

#26: Roasted Corn, Pepper and Tomato ChowderBy Eliot, on February 22nd, 2011As I posted earlier, I have been scouring through cookbooks and searching the internet for lighter and healthier soup recipes. I loved the pesto soup I made last week and the veggie soup from Eating Well. I found tonight’s inspiration at MyRecipes. This…

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Oh My! Crawfish Pie!

Oh My! Crawfish Pie! by Michelle M

Hank Williams sings about crawfish pie in this peppy, easy-going, yippy-skippy way. Kinda makes you want to get in the kitchen and make one. And some jambalaya and filé gumbo for good measure. Listening to him sing, you'd swear nothin' but good could come outta dat, cher.It's taken me a while to get crawfish pie to turn out like I…

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Multi-colored Potato Salad for the Fourth!

Multi-colored Potato Salad for the Fourth! by Eliot

Multi-colored Potato Salad for the Fourth!By Eliot, on July 4th, 2011Happy Fourth of July!We dug potatoes last week and I wanted to use up all our little “new” potatoes in a salad for today’s festivities.Yukon Gold, Sangre, and French FingerlingsI also had just pulled a few onions.Red onions from the garden.So I decided to throw…

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Thyme-Blackberry Jam AND Blackberry Syrup

Thyme-Blackberry Jam AND Blackberry Syrup by Eliot

We are lucky enough to live very close to a blackberry “U-pick” farm. I try to go every year. This year we both went at (7:00 in the morning) and picked twelve quarts. I think we were trying to out pick each other.What to do with twelve quarts of blackberries?Well, as soon as we got back home, I made two smoothies for our…

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Garden Variety Wednesday #2 & Citrus Spinach Salad

Garden Variety Wednesday #2 & Citrus Spinach Salad by Michelle M

Last fall I told The Husband I wanted to put in a bed for greens.Madam Chloe must have thought I said "bed for a queen."So proper. So regal.So much for the spinach plants. But we did get several nice batches of leaf lettuce. I guess spinach makes for a more comfortable bed than lettuce. Didn't know that.While we had to buy spinach…

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