I came to this amazing, beautiful country in 2005. Right away, on my first week here I noticed two very wrong things with America. The first wrong thing was that the people at McDonald’s couldn’t figure out how to insert a tomato into my breakfast sandwich. Oh, you won’t believe the hell that broke loose…
This was the cucumber year around here. In the beginning of the season, a couple of weeks after the last frost date, we transplanted 76 cucumber plants that we started in our germination room. This was the first year we grew this variety, it’s called Marketmore 76 and I purchased them from Southern Exposure Seed Exchange….
Fall is officially here, and pumpkins are everywhere. So many pumpkin recipes are shared through social media. I tried a couple, but still have a big bowl of pumpkin puree in the refrigerator. I usually get a big pumpkin and make a puree, then substitute it in all the recipes I try for the canned…
What’s summer without a sweet, red watermelon? Did you know watermelons are both a vegetable and a fruit? They are part of the cucumber and squash family. Watermelons contain 92% water, lots of vitamin A and C and are a good source of potassium. They contain no fat or cholesterol. There are more than 1200 verities of…