Tag: sauces

Field to Feast: Strawberries and Rhubarb

Field to Feast: Strawberries and Rhubarb

We plant about 500-750 new strawberry plants each year in addition to transplanting daughter plants and maintaining the previous year's mothers.  These new 'bare root' plants come from a supplier in what looks like a box of tangled, dirty never-gonna-grow roots.  With careful planting - the roots below the surface of a plastic-mulch-covered raised bed of soil, the crown just above - the plants will take hold, and begin to produce flowers in 4-6 weeks. That doesn't mean we'll get berries at that point.  In fact, and this probably goes against instinct, but we actually pluck off the first set...Read More
National Tater Tot Day and Gorgonzola Cheese Sauce

National Tater Tot Day and Gorgonzola Cheese Sauce

Happiness is Gorgonzola cheese sauce atop crispy tater-tots! Every day when The Boy comes home from school  I go through the contents of his backpack and homework folder.  He has some kind of reading, math and spelling homework Monday through Thursday nights.  Last night, in cleaning out his folder for the upcoming week, I found a reading comprehension handout about a type of dog that does not bark. The question that required a written answer (as opposed to multiple choice) was "Would you like to have a dog that did not bark?  Why or why not?" If there was ever...Read More