Herbs Vegetables

Flavored Butter with Goodies from the Garden

I love butter with herbs, but I decided to also make garlic butter this year.  Wow is it good!  It is great on potatoes and for grilled cheese sandwiches.  I usually make a few at a time so I soften two sticks of salted butter (or unsalted if you want) and use a garlic press […]

Recipes Vegetables

Cooking Sugar Snaps

Well I am ALMOST done growing sugar snap peas!   First of all, I previously planted about 16 vines – 2 on each pole.   Since these plants are starting to slow down and like cooler weather, I decided to start another round.  I planted two more seeds on the other side of the same poles […]

Recipes Vegetables

Peach Salsa

We bought some peaches and used our Anaheim green chili peppers and shallots from the garden for this yummy salsa that complemented our Mahi Mahi dinner. Ingredients: 2 large peaches skinned and pitted 2 Anaheim green chili peppers (or Jalapenos) 2 small shallots (or onions) cilantro lime juice coarse Kosher salt Dice the peaches into […]