Frittatas are a favorite simple meal at our house. Eggs and sautéed vegetables stirred together then cooked in a frying pan is the basic technique for a frittata. While eggs are the constant,...
https://lopezislandkitchengardens.com/2024/08/25/summer-frittatas/
Five dear friends visited us for several days recently and gave me a chance to make one of my favorite coffee cakes to enjoy over a leisurely breakfast. Deborah Madison’s Sweet Corn Coffee Cak...
https://lopezislandkitchengardens.com/2024/07/28/berry-coffee-cakes/
The kitchen garden rewards us with beauty throughout the year, from the first pale blossoms and tendrils of spring vegetables to the rich reds and purples of summer’s tomatoes, peppers, and egg...
https://lopezislandkitchengardens.com/2024/06/29/thinking-outside-the-kitchen-garden/
One bright spot in this spring’s cold and often dreary gardening weather has been listening to gardening podcasts. Two in particular have given me inspiring company as I start seeds, pot up ...
https://lopezislandkitchengardens.com/2024/05/31/gardening-podcasts/
It’s rhubarb custard pie season again. This favorite pie is the first dessert I make from the crimson stalks of rhubarb shooting up in the kitchen garden. If I kept making only this pie as the...
https://lopezislandkitchengardens.com/2024/04/28/rhubarb-sweet-and-savory/
It’s kale flower bud time again! And flower buds of Brussels sprouts, collards and other over-wintered vegetables too. They’ve all been putting out new leaves for several weeks and are now fo...
https://lopezislandkitchengardens.com/2024/03/31/kale-flower-bud-time-again/
Shelling dried beans is a winter task for me. Though I harvest the dry pods of dry beans in late fall and store them by variety in cardboard boxes, I never seem to get around to shelling them ...
https://lopezislandkitchengardens.com/2024/02/18/beans-a-soup-a-braise-and-a-stew/
For the third January in a row, I’ve found myself indoors ordering seeds for the garden year ahead while outdoors bitter cold temperatures blow down from the Fraser Valley. This year’s col...
https://lopezislandkitchengardens.com/2024/01/14/seeds-for-2024/
Winter vegetable salads are a perfect way to brighten the table during these darkening days of early winter. Dark red radicchio and red striped chicory, rich orange delicata squash, and carrots, ...
https://lopezislandkitchengardens.com/2023/12/21/winter-vegetable-salads/
“You had me at pastry” is my husband Scott’s response whenever I suggest a savory pastry for dinner or a sweet pastry for dessert. Pies, tarts, galettes, quiches, hand pies, turnovers, a...
https://lopezislandkitchengardens.com/2023/11/19/pastries-savory-and-sweet/