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Garden Recipes, Gardening

Shrimp Stir Fry with Sugar Snap Peas – Snow & Sugar Pea Garden Monster

March 15, 2010

There’s an uncontrollable beast on the North end of the garden and it actually comes in two forms: sugar snap peas and snow peas. Our spring peas are like serpants, clinging to everything they can get their tendrils on. Once they latch on, pea flowers shoot out and within 3-4 days, we have fresh peas to munch on. As a matter of fact, the warm sun is encouraging way more pea growth than we can ever imagine so it’s snow pea and sweet pea recipe overload!

Pea tendrils, flowers…

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Roasted Radish and Greens Salad – A friendly food fight

March 1, 2010
radish greens recipe

We were talking to a friend about radish recipes and she swore up and down that the only way to eat radishes was raw, crunchy and fresh. There was no other option to eating radishes, raw was it, she declared. She’s a great gardener, cook and mom. Her dedication to family, food and a healthy lifestyle is admirable. We wish we could be like her when we grow up. But she’s wrong.

We don’t often argue about food, knowing that everyone has their own tastes and preferences, however we had to disagree…

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Beet Greens and Goat Cheese Crostini- Eat your greens

February 25, 2010
beet greens recipe goat cheese

Our biggest apologies to all you friends who are still frozen under snow or drenched with rain. This post isn’t to gloat about our wonderful sunshine and blue skies, but rather, it’s about reminding you to enjoy eating your beet greens. Although, it doesn’t hurt to brag about our warm weather to you all cause it could warm-up you cold weather folks a bit! (but if you’re an outstanding tele-skier like Jen Yu, then you’ll want to be buried under snow!)

When spring arrives (like right now for us), or soon to arrive,…

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Endive & Radicchio Salad w/Creamy Parmesan Dressing from Rancho La Puerta Cookbook

February 7, 2010
creamy parmesan cheese dressing

I’m guilty and fessing up to the fact that I often drown my salads in dressing. Simple, crisp and fresh salads are my favorite ways to eat greens, sans all the complicated toppings. The extra toppings often get in the way of my favorite greens. But to contradict myself in a bowl of lettuce, I’ll often plunge the delicate leaves in a bath of oil and vinegar, suffocating my salad in excess dressing. Bad me, bad.

Key ingredients to healthy & flavorful dressing: non-fat yogurt, parmesan & oregano

fresh endive…

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Meyer Lemon Bars

February 5, 2010
meyer lemon bar recipe

We’ve been on a bit of a Meyer Lemon kick lately. First we had the Meyer Lemon Margaritas and now we’re inundating everyone with a Meyer lemon bar recipe.

“What the hell?”  you may ask.  ”Are these bastards just out to torture the population still stuck in the snow?”

We can be a bit bratty, but the main reason behind all of the Meyer lemon recipes is that our tree is laden and we’ve let the fruit sit to the point where they are all starting to drop.  As if that weren’t…

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New Blog Stuff and Meyer Lemon Cranberry Scones Recipe

January 4, 2010
scones recipe with meyer lemon cranberries

Garden meyer lemons that smell sooooo wonderful

Before we get to these magnificent meyer lemon cranberry scones recipe, there’s some new blog updates that we want to share.

If you haven’t noticed already, we’ve added some new features to our blog! We’ve always written about recipes, our garden, photography and our travels. But lately, we’ve been wanting to write more about each topic and more often.

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Dragon Fruit Salad – Antioxidant High

December 3, 2009
Dragonfruit

Holy cow, we had a ton of dragon fruits this year! The beastly vines have finally matured and almost every node gave off an odd-ball looking fruit. What a spectacular sight they are and it’s especially fun when friends come over and stumble upon the dragon fruit vines  breathing fiery rows of red balls. Everyone’s mouths drop to the ground, their eyes bulge out and then the exclamations spew out — “Holy $%%^! What the &*%$ are those?”  Oh yeah, we love it when people get excited!

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Fruity Pomegranate Salad with Savory Soy Vinaigrette

November 29, 2009
Pomegranate Salad

I have my little red seasonal joys, those tiny flavorful things that are plentiful this time of year—-pomegranate arils! These juicy, tangy, sour, sweet pops of flavor are such perfect accompaniments to salads. It’s amazing how simple additions can change the whole dynamic of a salad. When my salads feel lost and lacking, I love adding fresh fruit for that missing piece of the puzzle. In Autumn and Winter, I feel so fortunate that our pomegranate trees dangle huge red orbs in our face, reminding us that pomegranates can be enjoyed in a bundle of frilly…

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Persimmon and Cinnamon Oatmeal – Vote for a Great Cause!

November 8, 2009
Persimmon and Oatmeal Topping

Growing up with two huge persimmon trees in my parents backyard, I had my fair share of persimmon- in 3 ways.

The first was to eat it fresh till my belly could hold no more, the second was to water the trees, the third was to clean off all the fallen persimmon leaves on the weekends. Trust me, I enjoyed the eating part of it, but the garden chores were too much for an Atari loving, roller-skating 8th grader like me to enjoy. Cleaning up the persimmon trees during fall was the dramatic,…

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Roasted Potatoes w/ Fried Sage, Brown Butter – A Healing Memory

November 1, 2009
Sage Brown Butter Potatoes

I’ve often wondered what value my Ethno-botany days at the University have on my current career now. Back in my college days, I dreamed of finding the cure to cancer via medicinal plants, to live in the rainforest with native cultures and learn their traditional methods of healing through local plants. I romanced the idea of healing the world, to be the Medicine Woman, to climb big tall trees and scale the mountain tops, just like Sean Connery.

Now, I photograph pictures of restaurants and screaming babies. Go figure.

When I…

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Gardening Inspirations from Solar Living, Hopland CA

September 29, 2009
Solar Living Institute

Normally when someone takes off north from the Bay area on a day trip, the usual destinations are the wineries in Sonoma or Napa, maybe Sears Point for a little racing action, or a beautiful coastal drive.  However, being a gardening geek, I had another destination.  Hopland’s Solar Living Center.

I was in the Bay area spending the week with my mom before the BlogHer Food weekend, where Diane and I would be giving a talk on photography. Unfortunately Diane was stuck at home for the week to take care of business, so she didn’t get to…

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