You’ve heard of nose-to-tail cooking. You’re all too familiar with chefs using all parts of the beast from snout to trotter, and ox tongue to ox tail. Now we’re applying those rules to the humble watermelon. If you don’t compost, it can feel a little wasteful throwing away all that abundant watermelon rind once you’re [Read more]
Archive for August, 2011
How to Grow Melons: Go Vertical
(image via theeasygarden) I bet you’re wondering if a person can actually grow melons in a pot on a balcony. It’s one thing to grow tomatoes. They’re the size of baseballs. But melons? They’re the size of babies. Surely, melon babies need more space than you can provide, right? Wrong! Melons, like all their friends [Read more]
This Week in the Garden: Hurricane Survival
This week, there was some pre-hurricane fun, like the first crop of beans and baby cucumbers. And then, we declared a state of emergency for the garden. See that picture on top? That’s the garden on Friday. See the picture below? That’s Saturday, after we hauled all the furniture and plants into the house. To be [Read more]
Sweet Corn and Maple Cupcakes with Maple Cream Cheese Frosting
I’ve always wondered why you don’t see sweet corn more often in desserts. After all it makes perfect sense: It has a wonderful complex sweet flavor, as well as a savory quality that benefits plenty of sugary treats (consider the carrot cake and sweet potato pie), and when pureed down to a smooth pulp is [Read more]