Tag Archives: celery

Garden Vegetables & Cous Cous Salad with Ham

Posted on December 1, 2012 by Laura Rittenhouse

Jamie Oliver has a series on TV right now where he prepares 2 – 15 minute meals in a half-hour segment (I feel honour-bound to clarify that this does NOT include the time to harvest or buy the food and clean up afterwards … Continue reading →

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Green Smoothie

Posted on October 17, 2012 by Laura Rittenhouse

Last weekend I took a class on raw foods. I had taken a different version of the same class a year ago. The instructor has lived for a decade without cooking her food (anything over 42 C starts to kill … Continue reading →

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Sowing Potatoes & Tomatoes and Mulching Celery

Posted on August 20, 2012 by Laura Rittenhouse

August is the time to start sowing potatoes so this weekend I dug in the kitchen drawer where we keep ours and grabbed a few from the bag. Last year I bought seed potatoes and did a test of their productivity … Continue reading →

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Transplanting Celery

Posted on August 5, 2012 by Laura Rittenhouse

In early May I sowed some celery seeds that are best sowed in September. I was being impatient because a) Frank asked for celery and b) the packet comes with so many seeds that wasting a few was not going … Continue reading →

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Kitchen Herbs

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Laura Rittenhouse

Back on March 7th, I returned to the garden after being overseas for a few months. I sowed like a maniac. One of the seeds I sowed was basil. They’ve sprouted really well, but with winter coming on, I thought … Continue reading →

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Nooooooooo

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Laura Rittenhouse

This cabbage is gone. The possum finished all the good bits last night. And then he moved on to the next cabbage to begin its destruction. My cabbage is DOOMED. Beyond doomed, actually. And now in the interest of disclosure … Continue reading →

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I’ve got to eat more greens

Posted on September 29, 2011 by Laura Rittenhouse

I don’t know where my attention was diverted when my garden was taken over by greens, but it’s happened. Here you can see one bed of spinach plants that are all huge and some of them are on the verge of … Continue reading →

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San Choy Bau

Posted on September 9, 2011 by Laura Rittenhouse

Last night, just as the sun was going down, Frank and I went out on a greens-harvest run. The motivation was our dinner – san choy bau – or rather the greens were our motivation to make that specific dinner. San … Continue reading →

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Celery

Posted on August 25, 2011 by Laura Rittenhouse

Today I transplanted some celery to the bed nearest the kitchen in the hopes that we’ll get used to cutting a few celery leaves to add to many of our meals. I also moved a couple of spinach plants, mainly … Continue reading →

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Winter Salad

Posted on August 5, 2011 by Laura Rittenhouse

I don’t normally think of winter as a good time for fresh salads, probably because I grew up in a cold-ish climate (Seattle). But looking at my garden, I have to conclude that this is THE time for eating garden … Continue reading →

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