Moroccan Chili
A frugal take on chili employing chickpeas and the Moroccan spice blend called ras el hanout.
A frugal take on chili employing chickpeas and the Moroccan spice blend called ras el hanout.
One of my old favorite Chinese-American recipes made over primal---sesame chicken with broccoli. Serve with cauliflower rice if you are avoiding grains.
This was going to be a straightforward garden update with some notes about what seems to be working and not working for me. But that changed thanks to yesterday’s weather. We had a massive thunderstorm that sat…
Spring showers and warming temperatures have encouraged rapid growth in the garden.
A summary of my early spring efforts getting a vegetable and herb garden established.
An account of building raised beds and an herb spiral for vegetable gardening in my backyard in Colorado Springs.
We have had some absolutely gorgeous weather in the last few days, enough to really feel spring in the air! My dad and I finally got out to the community garden yesterday afternoon to check…
A (pretty nearly) final gardening update for the 2011 growing season: carrots, beets, and potatoes!
An update regarding our backyard garden plots for the month of September 2011: beans, root veggies, and fall crops.
A slightly tardy report on the growth of our community garden plots in the month of August 2011: lots of zucchini, beans, and tomatoes!
I haven’t posted a pictorial update for our backyard garden in some time, so here are a few photos that should catch us up to Labor Day weekend. This bed, which gets a lot of…
Celebrating the first heirloom tomato of the season, as orange and golden as the summer sunrise!
Here's a stumper: One carton of six plant starts, but three grew big green peppers and three grew tiny red ones.
An update on the exponential growth of our community garden plots for the month of July 2011.
An update on the growth of our community garden plots for the month of June 2011.
Farm animals, wild birds, backyard gardening, raw milk and honey-lime salmon are the highlights of our Memorial Day 2011.
Homegrown rhubarb and the first jams of the year: strawberry-rhubarb with cinnamon and cherry-rhubarb with vanilla.
A May garden update, and a trip to the Denver Urban Homesteading farmer's market.