This spicy apricot sauce is one of my favorite recipes to make in the summer time when apricots are in season. They are fresh and juicy and just begging to be used in all kinds of dishes from desserts to more savoury ones like this. I like to put away a few jars of apricot preserves each year so that the goodness can last well into the winter season. After spending the day in front of the stove putting up preserves tossing together this dish on the grill is a nice reprieve come dinner time….
Around here, corn is only supposed to be “knee high by the fourth of July” as the saying goes, so that means we aren’t seeing much for fresh ears locally. Thankfully our friends just south of us are already starting to get some perfectly sweet ripe corn and it’s showing up at farmers markets stands….
I realise that it’s summer now, and most places have already begun to move on from beets and radishes, but around here they are just starting to wane. So I’m posting this recipe anyway.
Last weekend Chuck and I found ourselves at the farmers market, ogling all the bright beauties and I couldn’t help myself from buying them. I didn’t need pink and purple radishes or orange beets, but sometimes you just have to go with your gut right?…
I love this time of year. It feels like there’s some kind of new produce in season every other week. It’s just a time of abundance and it’s so refreshing after a long winter and wet slow spring.
Personally, my gardens are not growing as well as I would like so we are getting as much as I had envisioned. I, like everybody else I talk to around here, blame the weather. If it’s not cold storming, it’s ridiculously hot and humid. There’s just no in between. The poor plants don’t know what to do….
Last year was my first year really growing garlic on my own. I mean I had watched my family and numerous other people do it for years, but like so much in gardening there were a number of nuances that I just simply wasn’t aware of. One of those things was the actual use of those little curly-ques that come off of the main stalk, and will if left eventually bloom into a flower….