Today I improvised a hot & spicy root soup with wild mushrooms. Just when you think you have NOTHING from which to make a dish! My frig was nearly empty. And it’s actually quite tasty! Straight from the earth. You can make a vegan version with vegetable stock or the stock from the rehydrated mushrooms, […]
Sharing My New Favorite Fruit Salad Recipe which I whipped up this morning. I receive a farm box every other Friday, and today I wanted to finish up everything left from last week’s box. I put together this salad and it is delicious! Give it a try! Kaye’s Best Fruit Salad ~ Ingredients ~ 1 apple […]
Here’s my Sweet Potato Leek Cream Soup Recipe! This soup is embarrassingly simple and sweetly delicious. I had ordered purple flesh sweet potatoes from my farm box, and leeks. I’ve made this potato leek soup for 20 years or more, but had never tried it with sweet potatoes. I’m currently out of my homegrown potatoes, so I […]
Here’s your Cranberry Ginger Muffin Recipe for the Holidays! As usual, I do most of my cooking on Fridays. After my recent pumpkin muffin success (after a many years hiatus from muffin-making), I was emboldened to try these Cranberry Ginger Muffins today! I balanced the tartness of the raw cranberries with a handful of crystallized […]
Candied Roselle Recipe & More Phoenix Vlogs! Apparently, June was the worst time to visit Phoenix this year at 118° so I returned last weekend at the perfect time to garden hop. Jacq Davis, with her unique and creative approach to edible gardening is the perfect host, especially because she is such a great cook! […]
My Italian Tomato Sauce Recipe, or I should say, the one I have used for years, comes from Vegetarian Gourmet Cookery by Alan Hooker, who developed the recipes over a number of years at the legendary Ranch House Restaurant in Ojai, California. I vary the recipe in this way: I don’t use sugar, my tomatoes […]
Coriander Spice Recipes – In my latest episode of Late Bloomer, I talk about saving coriander seeds and some ways to use coriander. Cilantro, or coriander as the dried seed is called, are remarkably healthful and distinctively aromatic. Coriander is the prominent spice in the Indian spice blend Garam Masala (gar’am ma’sa-la). Kaye’s Garam Masala Spice […]
On Fridays, I have help in the kitchen, so that’s usually when I do a little cooking or food preparing. I whipped up this salad in no time and posted on Instagram, and said I would share the recipe. This all-organic salad made about 10 servings. Everything but the Kitchen Sink Salad ~Ingredients~ 1 c. uncooked […]
Voile on Brassicas and Cushaw Recipe in the latest Late Bloomer! Kaye reveals her new trapezoid raised bed, uses voile instead of garden cloth on brassicas to protect against cabbage moths laying eggs, and shares Mee Tracy McCormick’s cushaw squash recipe for Cushaw Cashew Bisque. See Mee’s segment on More at Mid-day WSMV, Nashville, TN, […]
The lightness of this End of Winter Stew I improvised two nights ago felt like the end of winter and the beginning of spring. It had to do with the beets! Click photo to view and Like on Instagram! Of course, spring is a virtually a misnomer in Southern California. We had heat waves in […]
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