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    Garden Vegetable Recipes

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    The "garden" section of this website is dedicated to interesting and unique vegetables. These plants may not be wild, but I cook them using a forager's instinct.

    One of things I'm most passionate about are parts of common vegetables you may not know are edible.

    For example, just like with green tomatoes, many plants are edible in different stages of ripeness. Squash and pumpkins being just two.

    a green pumpkin cut in half showing seeds.

    The unripe seeds and flesh of green pumpkin are edible and taste similar to summer squash.

    Carrot greens are delicious if they're prepared correctly. Whatever you grow, and however you like to cook, I hope you can find some inspiration here.

     

     

    • Foraging Ground Elder / Snow on the Mountain / Bishop's Weed
    • Wisteria Flowers
    • Homemade Agrumato / Lemon Olive Oil
    • Italian Braised Escarole and Beans with Sausage
    • How to Cook with Parsley Root
    • Hot Carolina Reaper or Ghost Pepper Salt
    • Roasted Parsley Root and Carrots
    • Curried Kabocha Squash Soup with Roasted Pepper Relish
    • Lovage Sauce / Garlic & Herb Aioli
    • Creamy Parsley Root Soup
    • Parsley Root Puree
    • How to Cook With Lovage: A Delicious Forgotten Herb
    • Green Burgers / Spinach Patties
    • Old Fashioned Turnip Green Soup with Black Eyed Peas
    • How to Make Sauerkraut in a Crock
    • Ciambotta / Giambotta: An Italian Vegetable Stew
    • Asparagus End Soup (What to do with Asparagus Ends)
    • Whole Roasted Celeriac Steak Baked in a Crust
    • Sea Beet
    • Fermented Turnips (Sauerruben)
    • Puntarelle: A Deliciously Bitter Italian Chicory
    • Pasta with Chicory, Anchovy and Pecorino
    • Green Pumpkin Pie
    • Lampascioni: Southern Italy's Edible Hyacinth Bulbs
    • How to Cook a Green Pumpkin
    • Lacto-Fermented Lemons
    • Wild Greek Salad with Purslane and Stonecrop
    • Green Coriander or Unripe Cilantro Seeds
    • Oven Dried Tomatoes with Bergamot Leaves
    • Daikon Radish Steaks with Wild Mushroom Ragu
    • Fresh Horseradish
    • Homegrown Horseradish Cream
    • Hosta Buds
    • Fermented Root Vegetable Sauerkraut, with Wild Caraway
    • How to Make Nasturtium Capers (Lacto-Fermented)
    • Green Butternut Squash
    • Rau Ram
    • Milkweed Flowers
    • Common Amaranth: Amaranthus retroflexus
    • Bee Balm (Monarda fistulosa)

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