Soup Week!: Yellow Pepper and Pine Nut Soup

I love soup, so I decided to have a soup week.  Since there are only two of us it didn’t make sense to make a new soup every day, but I did eat soup every day.
I’ve really been enjoying a cookbook I recently picked up called The 150 Best American Recipes by Fran McCollough and [...]

Vegetarian Black Bean Chili

Autumn is coming and one of my favorite things to make in this season is Black Bean Chili from The Greens restaurant in San Francisco.  I’ve never eaten at The Greens myself, but my friend Megan was a chef there a few years ago, so I picked up the restaurant’s cookbook from my local library [...]

I love my garden

Here we have mixed greens and radishes from the garden garnished with Gorgonzola cheese, pecans, and ranch dressing.  Click on the photo for a better view.

Garden report and more on the Earth Machine

So (by request) here’s a shot of my Earth Machine compost bin.  As you can see, it is fairly large for an apartment dweller, but it fits quite nicely right next to my flower bed garden.  The ideal would be to have it closer to the door to my apartment (making it easy to dump [...]

Co-op in the Tribune

I just placed my order with the co-op and they mentioned that there was an article in the Salt Lake Tribune yesterday about them.  Check it out: http://www.sltrib.com/ci_9194457?IADID=Search-www.sltrib.com-www.sltrib.com