One thing about smoking foods is, you can multi-task. Cold-smoking – smoking food at a temperature of less than 150 degrees, usually – takes a lot of time, but does not require that one hover over the smoker. You can attend to other chores (like cutting up dead shrubs and dragging the trunks down to [...]
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Recommended: Samish F1 Hybrid Spinach Usually I prefer my vegetables open-pollinated because, for one thing, I like to save seeds from selected plants that outperformed their brothers. You can’t save seeds from hybrids because they don’t breed true. But I made an exception and tried an F1 hybrid spinach called Samish, and Popeye would love [...]
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After a dozen or so February days below freezing, probably near the kind of record I don’t want to play again, spring began yesterday, at least the kind of spring that stops by for a week at a time in the seasonal tug-of-war that ensues here. Maybe winter will show up to ruin another weekend [...]
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This I know: Few things will boost you beyond the grasp of winter’s frosty freeze better than a bellyful of hot Texas chili. Now farbeit from me to pretend to be a Texas chili expert. For starters, I’m not from Texas, although I’ve spent enough years here to qualify for Lyle Lovett’s Honorary Residency Certificate. [...]
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The problem with pecans is, you have to work at them to extract nut meat from shell. Before you can extract the meat (“shell” them), you have to significantly crack the strong shell (“crack” them). Before you can crack them, of course, you have to pick them. And, naturally, before you can pick them, you [...]
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As abruptly as June turned into July, so did the tomato harvest become the fig harvest. Suddenly we’re down from at least a dozen ‘maters a day to maybe a couple, and up to our elbows in the ancient fruit. We’re living inside an extended Iron Chef episode (if you’ve never seen the original, famous [...]
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Despite being knocked flat on their vegetable asses 10 days ago, the tomato plants made a quick recovery and are busy pumping out loads of big, juicy fruit. Among the heirloom German Johnsons and Belgium Giants, one-pounders are now almost below-average; every tomato in this picture weighs more than that. The largest so far this [...]
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