Posts under ‘Herbs’

It should be noted that it is, in fact, firmly October. October is not a month generally known for its tomatoey goodness, but the weather has been weird this year, and so I still have tomatoes ripening. On the vine. Look! It’s a gift horse! (Shut your mouth, gift horse, ‘cause I’m not looking in [...]

I stopped by the Edible Iowa River Valley site tonight to check out the recipe of the week, only to discover that, in fact, there’s a picture of me and my armload of basil. Oh, smiling mug. I’d been meaning to mention Edible’s weekly recipes feature on the site, and mention that they feature seasonal, [...]

Not that long ago, I went out to cut some parsley for a dish I was making, and very nearly harvested myself a caterpillar. I don’t understand how this works. There were, as it turned out, three of these vibrant guys hanging out in my two parsley pots, all chilling on a parsley sprig of [...]

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: The Mint Killer has not lived up to her name this year. She’s been cultivating mint like nobody’s business, she’s cultivated purple AND green basil, and even the Easter Egg Peppers that Barbara from Acoustic Farms gave us when we stopped by the farm for sausage [...]

Gardeners, plant and nature lovers can join in Green Thumb Sunday every week. Visit As the Garden Grows for more information.

For a variety of reasons, I haven’t been doing much cooking lately, and when I have been cooking, it has been things like grilled cheese or rosemary-artichoke hummus (Note to those who thought that business about making it every week was hyperbole: I have, in fact, made it every week since I first made it, [...]

I swear I thought I had two cans of chickpeas, which is what’s required by my all-time, Mom’s-favorite hummus recipe, when I got out the food processor to mix up some last week. I swear it, but after much swearing of the naughty kind and a full unpacking of my entire pantry, I determined the [...]

The fresh fig season never happens when I want it to. Of course, that is because I would prefer for it to happen all year round, even though I know that goes against my entire philosophy of seasonal eating. Fresh figs rule. If your only figgy experience has been of the Newton variety, I remain [...]

As she demonstrated with our red snapper fixin’s, The Mint Killer has turned around her reputation this year. In the meantime, my mint has been struggling—it was doing fine until it didn’t get any water for three days. Apparently mint really can be killed—by all kinds of people. On Friday, when I was at The [...]

When I arrived home from my business trip, I was greeted by signs of life in Tomato Alley: Signs of death in the basil: A gladiola blossom that I could just sit and stare at all day long: And, of course, a rabbit: