How My Garden Grows

Garden, Organic, Carrot

For everyone who poo-pooed me on planting early, all I can say this year is I GOT LUCKY! This is the best stand of carrots I've ever had thus far! I am dreaming of carrot soup, glazed carrots, carrot cake and so on and so forth! These raspberries were just planted last year, and are obviously prolific little buggers. Raspberry jam anyone? My garlic is growing great guns too, even if my girls beat the hell out of them early on! I really didn't think they would make it, but they look good so far! I am SO

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In My Kitchen

Salt Pig

This past week I have been complying a list of recipes I will be cooking when I finally get back home. I've been dreaming about my kitchen and the smells that come out of it when I'm home and I thought I would share this little guy with you. I have always had a big jar of salt on hand so I don't have to depend on a shaker, especially for big pots of water that will flavor my boiled potatoes or pasta, but last spring I found this guy and I bought two! I think I spent around $8 bucks each on them and this little

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