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Artichokes growing in Houston’s herb and vegetable garden

Posted in Farmers' markets & locally grown food, Gardens, Restaurants on Apr 27th, 2007

Artichokes growing in Houston’s herb and vegetable garden

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Blue potatoes with slivered garlic in the making

Posted in Farmers' markets & locally grown food, Recipes and cooking on Apr 6th, 2007

Blue potatoes from the Pasadena farmers’ market
Blue potatoes with slivered garlic
Adapted from the Fingerlings with Slivered Garlic recipe on p. 411 of Deborah Madison’s Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone.
Olive oil
1 pound small All Blue potatoes scrubbed and sliced into about 1/3-inch thick rounds
6 big garlic cloves (or more small ones) sliced thinly
Salt and freshly ground pepper
Preheat [...]

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Caprese salad in the making

Posted in Farmers' markets & locally grown food, Recipes and cooking on Mar 22nd, 2007

The tomatoes and basil are from Pasadena’s Saturday morning farmers’ market, and the buffalo mozzarella is from Roma Italian Deli & Grocery.

Caprese salad in the making, 1

Caprese salad in the making, 2

Caprese salad in the making, 3

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Path to Freedom how-to videos on YouTube

Posted in Farmers' markets & locally grown food, Gardens on Mar 12th, 2007

The organic urban homesteading family at Path to Freedom here in Pasadena is posting how-to and informational videos on YouTube.

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O, Pioneers in Pasadena

Posted in Farmers' markets & locally grown food, Gardens on Mar 4th, 2007

O, Pioneers in Pasadena - A recent L.A. Times article about the Dervaes Pasadena urban homestead (the family’s website is at PathtoFreedom.com)

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Russian banana fingerlings

Posted in Farmers' markets & locally grown food on Feb 13th, 2007

Russian banana fingerlings
We found these Russian banana fingerling potatoes at the Pasadena farmers’ market last Saturday morning, too. They were sweet. I usually toss baby potatoes with olive oil, capers, dill and salt. These didn’t need capers, and the dill was good but not quite right. If I can find these again next week, I [...]

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Crosnes

Posted in Farmers' markets & locally grown food on Feb 13th, 2007

After reading Cook and Nifty Wench’s post about crosnes, we bought some at the farmers’ market on Saturday.

Crosnes

About crosnes
We sauteed them in butter…

Crosnes sauteing
…and added lots of salt and pepper and oregano from our garden (still following Cook and Nifty Wench’s lead).

Oregano in my garden
They tasted like very good french fries, but they felt crisper [...]

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Tableau Vivante

Posted in Farmers' markets & locally grown food on Feb 11th, 2007

Tableau Vivante has great coverage of local farmers’ markets - especially the Saturday morning market here in Pasadena.

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Lemon in the rain in my garden

Posted in Farmers' markets & locally grown food, Gardens, Trees on Feb 11th, 2007

Lemon in the rain

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The South Pasadena Farmers’ Market

Posted in Farmers' markets & locally grown food on Feb 10th, 2007

South Pasadena farmers’ market

Ginger
Thursday night, Erin, Superspark and I went to the South Pasadena farmers’ market and then to Firefly for their farmers’ market night sangria and tapas. Is anyone out there a regular at this market or Pasadena’s Saturday morning market? I like them both, but for different things. The Saturday morning market has [...]

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