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Sep 26, 2024 | 
motherearthnews.com | Barbara Damrosch
Leaves may be falling from the trees now, but if you’ve planned well, abundant fresh ones currently color your garden green. Leafy green vegetables love fall, and their flavor improves in cooler weather – especially if grown without synthetic, high-nitrogen fertilizers. For kale and spinach, whose sugar content rises as the temperature falls, this is the best season of the year.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
motherearthnews.com | Barbara Damrosch |Judy DeLorenzo |Ann Tom |Jack Mcquarrie
Here’s a soup to warm your bones after raking autumn leaves, toting in firewood, or playing football in the yard. Skip the kielbasa sausage in this potato soup recipe if you wish; it will still be satisfying.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
motherearthnews.com | Barbara Damrosch
Discover how to grow and cook garden-to-table meals with potatoes and garlic. Potatoes and garlic, together or separately, are pillars of the kitchen. Of the major carbohydrate crops of the world — wheat, rice, corn and potato — the homely spud is the easiest for a home gardener to grow in a meaningful amount. And for adding flavor to daily fare, earthy and pungent garlic is almost as essential as salt. “Why should I grow either, when they’re cheap to buy and easy to store?
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Oct 5, 2023 | 
motherearthnews.com | Pamela Stevenson |Averie Sunshine |Domenica Marchetti |Barbara Damrosch
This easy tamale pie recipe from one of our readers provides a great way to use green tomatoes from your garden. For the base: 1 pound green tomatoes 2 cups cooked black beans 1/2 small habanero, seeded and minced (more or less to taste) 2 cloves garlic, minced 1 small onion, minced 1 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon pepper 2 teaspoons chili powder 2 teaspoons ground cumin 1 teaspoon dried oregano 1/2 cup cornmealFor the topping: 1-1/2 cups milk 1 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup cornmeal 8 oz.
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Sep 27, 2023 | 
motherearthnews.com | Anne Vassal |Averie Sunshine |Domenica Marchetti |Barbara Damrosch
Indulge in twice as much banana goodness with this simple and satisfying Double Banana Bread Recipe.
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Sep 26, 2023 | 
motherearthnews.com | Renee Pottle |Barbara Damrosch |Jack Mcquarrie |Juliet Blankespoor
Use the zucchini harvest from you garden for this zesty Oatmeal-Orange Zucchini Bread Recipe. 1 hour and 30 minutes DURATION 1 hour and 15 minutes COOK TIME 15 minutes PREP TIME 3 eggs1/2 cup safflower oil1/2 cup plain yogurtJuice from 1 large orange1 cup granulated sugar1/2 cup packed brown sugarGrated zest from 1 large orange3-1/2 cups grated zucchini3 cups all-purpose flourDash salt1 tsp baking soda1/2 tsp baking powder1 cup rolled oats Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Sep 21, 2023 | 
motherearthnews.com | Barbara Damrosch |Jack Mcquarrie |Dale Pinnock |Stephen Salaff
Follow this Traditional Ratatouille Recipe or improvise with whatever vegetables you have around the kitchen. 3 medium onions, thinly sliced
eggplant, sliced into half-inch pieces
green peppers, slice julienne style
tomatoes, quartered
zucchini, peeled and sliced into half-inch pieces
2 cloves garlic, minced
1/2 cup olive oil
dried basil
parsley Heat majority of olive oil in a wide, heavy pan.
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Sep 21, 2023 | 
motherearthnews.com | Barbara Damrosch |Jack Mcquarrie |Tabitha Alterman |Averie Sunshine
Use your basil harvest in this Soupe au Pistou Recipe. Pistou is a French dish, much like Italian pesto. Soupe au Pistou, the French high-summer vegetable soup, gets a bump of flavor from the pesto-like pistou.
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Jul 20, 2023 | 
motherearthnews.com | Barbara Damrosch
Fennel's anise flavor and scallions' allium zing add savor to your table. Looking to learn how to grow scallions from seed and plant fennel? Learn more about how to prepare fennel and scallions for fresh and flavorful meals. Two bulbs, two different flavors: Fennel and scallions come into their own in early summer. Perhaps it’s time you welcomed both, along with their distinctive flavors, into your own garden and kitchen.
