Last week while Colorado was being slammed with yet another blizzard, I was off in sunny Atlanta battling a stomach bug visiting friends battling stomach bugs with friends. News that my laid-back un-anxious husband had rushed our youngest to the emergency room with a high fever did nothing to help settle my stomach. It was [...]
Read more...Thank you to all for the plethora of suggestions on how to beat the seasonal snotties. I take it you were not impressed with my plan of barring the doors and windows and never venturing forth into polite company again? Worries over me becoming a hermit are groundless. Why just today I strolled out through [...]
Read more...There is a chance, I suppose, that since I’ve deserted it our sweet little garden has runneth over, but I’m not holding my breath. I’m visiting my mother, and she has shown me how a real garden behaves. It’s not that my cute little berry patch back in Colorado isn’t special; it is. But next [...]
Read more...On Saturday morning, while I was busy disengaging the wild raspberries from the strawberry patch and moving weeds to make room for rainbow chard seeds, my daughters had more pressing matters at hand. The pine needle roof of the fairy home, constructed specifically to allow for shade and breezes, had blown over. At least now [...]
Read more...I am shocked. I had been wracking my brain trying desperately to write something garden-y amid late winter doldrums that would somehow resonate, and Bam! I hit the health-food jackpot. The outpouring in support of chard, sleeper vegetable of the year, has been overwhelming. Here I was bravely choking down the stuff in the name [...]
Read more...My daughter actually said this last night: Mom, can I eat the chard now, or do I have to wait for dinner? I kid you not, this is good stuff. Even I’ve been eating my greens lately; it’s that good. Ingredients: Olive oil, chard, salt Wash chard, and blot – leave it a little bit [...]
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