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April 2025
Come into the Kitchen, Gardener
COME INTO THE KITCHEN, GARDENER: Broccoli Cheese Soup In A Bread Bowl For One
By Karen England, for Let’s Talk Plants! January 2025. https://www.flickr.com/photos/sk8geek/ Broccoli Cheese Soup in a Bread Bowl for...
Jan 1
COME INTO THE KITCHEN, GARDENER: A Tomato Dish To Make For Thanksgiving Dinner
By Karen England, for Let’s Talk Plants! November 2024. A Tomato Dish to Make for Thanksgiving Dinner I own a ©2001 cookbook by Diane...
Nov 1, 2024
COME INTO THE KITCHEN, GARDENER: Cucumber Salads
By Karen England for Let’s Talk Plants! July 2024. Cucumber Salads “. . . Of one thing I feel sure, a working knowledge of both gardening...
Jul 1, 2024
COME INTO THE KITCHEN, GARDENER: Squash, A Limitless Bounty Â
By Karen England for Let’s Talk Plants! May 2024. Squash, A Limitless Bounty When you think of squashes, which do you think of first?...
May 1, 2024
COME INTO THE KITCHEN, GARDENER: Favorite Recipes For Sommer’s Five Herbs To Grow And Not Buy
By Karen England, for Let’s Talk Plants! March 2024. Favorite Recipes for Sommer’s Five Herbs to Grow and Not Buy To say that I was giddy...
Mar 1, 2024
COME INTO THE KITCHEN, GARDENER: Good Meals And How To Prepare Them
By Karen England, for Let’s Talk Plants! January 2024. Good Meals and How to Prepare Them In 1997 at the Rose Bowl Flea Market in...
Jan 1, 2024
COME INTO THE KITCHEN, GARDENER: Pickle That Peck O’Peppers People!
By Karen England, for Let’s Talk Plants! May 2023. Pickle That Peck O’Peppers People! This column tends to be a recipe centric follow up...
May 1, 2023
COME INTO THE KITCHEN, GARDENER: Herbal Succulents - Aloe Vera Blossom Sauté
By Karen England, for Let’s Talk Plants! April 2022. Vista, California. Sunset through Aloe vera blossoms. Flowers destined for tacos! A...
May 1, 2022
COME INTO THE KITCHEN, GARDENER: Leafy Greens Juice
Leafy Greens Juice By Karen England, for Let's Talk Plants! March 2022. Since I have a burgeoning raised bed of mixed greens growing...
Mar 1, 2022
COME INTO THE KITCHEN, GARDENER: Porch Bed, Potatoes & Arugula
By Karen England, for Let's Talk Plants! February 2022. Those of you who attended the "*Coffeeless Coffee in the Garden" back in November...
Feb 1, 2022
COME INTO THE KITCHEN, GARDENER: Karen's Never-ending Persimmon Crop Leads To Muffins
By Karen England, for Let's Talk Plants! January 2022. Karen's previous persimmon recipes can be read here; Persimmon cocktail called...
Jan 1, 2022
COME INTO THE KITCHEN, GARDENER: Edgehill Herb Farm Persimmons
By Kaye Wren, for Let's Talk Plants! December 2021. Did you attend the recent coffee-less Coffee In The Garden at SDHS president, Karen...
Dec 1, 2021
COME INTO THE KITCHEN, GARDENER: Dates and Potatoes
By Karen England, for Let's Talk Plants! November 2021. As you read through this month's newsletter articles from Jim Bishop and Sommer...
Nov 1, 2021
COME INTO THE KITCHEN, GARDENER: Keep Calm And Carrot On!
By Karen England for Let's Talk Plants! September 2021. With thanks to https://www.gloryofthesnow.com/carrot-puns/ for the punny title of...
Sep 1, 2021
COME INTO THE KITCHEN, GARDENER: Eat From Your Summer Vegetable Garden
By Karen England. As Sommer Cartier recommends in her bi-monthly column, Grow with Abundance, in this, the May 2021, issue of Let's Talk...
May 1, 2021
COME INTO THE KITCHEN, GARDENER: Asparagus and Strawberries, Just Not Together . . .
By Karen England. Did you read my April President's Letter in this issue of Let's Talk Plants!? If so, then you learned about a "new...
Apr 1, 2021
COME INTO THE KITCHEN, GARDENER: If You Didn't Toss It, And You Planted It, Then Cook And Eat It!
This month, while editing Sommer Cartier's column, GROW IN ABUNDANCE: Don't Toss It, Plant It! about growing sweet potatoes and green onions
Mar 1, 2021
COME INTO THE KITCHEN, GARDENER: Tomatoes, the Umami Superfood
a category of taste in food (besides sweet, sour, salt, and bitter), corresponding to the flavor of glutamates, especially monosodium glutam
Feb 1, 2021
COME INTO THE KITCHEN, GARDENER: Duck Eggs
Early in the pandemic, mainly to control garden snails, I got two ducks to join my two old hens already in the chicken coop. You can read ab
Jan 1, 2021
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