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- After the Radish Harvest, Hot Radish Soup
- Makah Ozette Fries
- Roasted Peppers with Anchovies and Garlic
- Found: Good Sweet Cherry Peppers
- Jerusalem Artichoke Chips
- Tomato Report 2018
- Another Great Use for Collard Greens
- Mitzi’s Cabbage-and-Beet Salad
- Roasting the Last of the Tomatoes
- A Taste of Austria
Author Archives: Linda Ziedrich
After the Radish Harvest, Hot Radish Soup
The big difference between cooks who garden and those who don’t is that the former start with what’s available. Market shoppers may claim to do the same—to begin their meals by buying produce that’s fresh and in season. But shoppers … Continue reading
Posted in Books and blogs, More, Vegetables
Tagged cooking radishes, freezing leeks, Irene Kuo, leek broth, radish soup, recipe, The Key to Chinese Cooking
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Makah Ozette Fries
Now that my Makah Ozette potatoes are sprouting in the basement, I’m trying to find ways to use them faster. Everybody eats more potatoes when they come to the table in the form of French fries, right? So last night … Continue reading
Posted in More, Vegetables
Tagged coriander chutney, fries, green chutney, Makah Ozette, roasted tomatoes
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Roasted Peppers with Anchovies and Garlic
On Halloween, fall has finally set in here in the Willamette Valley. The trees stand bare, red and gold leaves carpet the ground, the sky is as grey as the wet streets, and the air is damp and cold. At … Continue reading
Found: Good Sweet Cherry Peppers
You may or may not remember my article Cherry Peppers for Stuffing, about my beautiful stuffed cherry peppers that were too hot for me to eat. I wrote that I’d finally found seeds for sweet, rather than hot, cherry peppers, … Continue reading
Jerusalem Artichoke Chips
Even though I didn’t plant Jerusalem artichokes this year, even though I deprived last year’s survivors of water, and even though I pulled up many of the young plants over the summer, I still expect to harvest an enormous crop … Continue reading
Tomato Report 2018
I see I haven’t written one of these reports since 2015. That’s because I’ve settled on favorite varieties and and grown them year after year. But friends are always urging me to try different cultivars, and so this year I … Continue reading
Another Great Use for Collard Greens
When we were young and living in Somerville, Massachusetts, Robert and I liked to visit a tiny Indian market in Union Square. On one of our visits he picked up a little can with a label picturing something dark green … Continue reading
Mitzi’s Cabbage-and-Beet Salad
A little more than a year ago, my friend Mitzi, a massage therapist, and her colleague Rhonda told me about a salad that acts as an outstanding liver tonic. You slice head cabbage, grate raw beet, and chop some walnuts. … Continue reading
Roasting the Last of the Tomatoes
Two light frosts have blackened the tips of the tomato vines, but the fruits continue to ripen, slowly. They taste like autumn now, cold and a little mealy. I don’t care to haul out the canner for a small basket-load, … Continue reading
A Taste of Austria
Last month I had the luck to spend two weeks in Austria, a little country of cheerful, modest people and outsized natural and cultural wealth, from the ancient salt mines to the soaring Alps, from Baroque palaces filled with with … Continue reading
