Do you ever have potatoes that are sitting around for so long that the eyes start sprouting? That’s what happened with my small batch of fingerling potatoes. Continue reading Rosemary Roasted Potatoes
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Master Gardeners Spring Garden Market
Every April there is a plant sale in the Bay Are called Master Gardener’s Spring Garden Market. A plant fair for garden lovers.
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Veggie Picking with the Family
2015 was the first year we had a veggie patch. And we planted tons of veggie plants. It was loads of fun for all of us to watch the plants grow and produce a boatload of vegetables. We even hosted a couple of veggie picking parties with our cousins. Here are a few pictures of our veggie picking party. Continue reading Veggie Picking with the Family
Uma Aunty’s Book Signing Tea
My Aunty Uma (my Mom’s younger sister) recently published a book on Indian herbs and their healing properties titled Herbal Transformations. Ancient Wisdom Revealed for Health and Longevity. Uma aunty’s book is a treasure for anyone wanting to learn about Indian herbs and their healing properties. Her book has taken years of research to compile, and the end result is an easy to read book on healing herbs that has plenty of anecdotes and personal experiences to make the stories and information on herbs come alive. Continue reading Uma Aunty’s Book Signing Tea
Celebrating the First Harvest from our Veggie Patch
After a month of planting seedlings and new veggie plants we finally saw the fruits of our labor. To celebrate our inaugural bounty of veggies, we had an evening of wine and cheese up in the veggie patch. Here are the pics. Continue reading Celebrating the First Harvest from our Veggie Patch
Easy Creamy Broccoli Soup
This soup is super easy to make. You don’t need many ingredients, and you can adjust the recipe according to your taste. Basically it’s hard to mess this up.
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Our New Veggie Patch
We finally got around to building a vegetable patch last year on our hill. This little hill of ours has amazing views of the surrounding hills and mountains, and tons of sunshine; perfect conditions for growing vegetables. I asked my gardener to build the veggie patch, told him exactly what I was looking for, and after 3 months of flattening parts of the hill, tilling the soil, trucking in loads of compost and soil, the veggie patch was finally done. Here are the pictures of our newly built veggie patch. Continue reading Our New Veggie Patch
Veggie Quiche
When you add wonderful veggies to eggs and bake, you get an amazing veggie quiche. Carrots, peppers, spinach, garlic and herbs – this is a yummy in your tummy type of recipe 🥕.
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Cauliflower and Roasted Garlic Soup
I made this soup the first Sunday of the New Year after the holidays. It was time to get back into the Sunday Soup routine that I had started last year. Everyone loved the idea of having soup on Sundays for dinner, and it made it easy for me too to plan the meal for Sunday – it was going to be soup, that’s it! Nothing else! Continue reading Cauliflower and Roasted Garlic Soup