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Category: Cooking

Posted on March 15, 2025March 15, 2025

Sponge cake by the chefs

The Chef doesn’t bake often but he got wild yesterday.

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Posted on October 24, 2024October 25, 2024

10/24/2024 quiz time

The Chef and the Paula prepared a sumptuous meal tonight.

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Posted on August 23, 2024August 19, 2024

08/19/2024 garden and neighborhood elements of dinner

Tasty stuff.

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Posted on June 11, 2024June 11, 2024

06/11/2024 and 06/10/2024 recent dinners

The Chef and Paula have been really outdoing themselves lately.

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Posted on May 17, 2024May 17, 2024

05/17/2024 cilantro garnish

Most cilantro in our yard is blooming now, attracting excellent little pollinators and parasitic wasps. The few remaining ones we used this evening on an Indian curry made by the Chef.

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Posted on May 7, 2024May 7, 2024

05/07/2024

Spring keeps springing!

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Posted on May 5, 2024May 5, 2024

05/05/2024 garden salad et al

Yum

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Posted on May 1, 2024May 1, 2024

04/30/2024 so behind

Things keep happening!

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Posted on April 26, 2024April 26, 2024

04/26/2024 so much happening

But all I have time to post is dinner.

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Posted on April 24, 2024April 24, 2024

04/24/2024 garlic scapes start

I found a new guide to when to harvest garlic and it says after removing the scapes (flower buds) and before all the leaves die back (just some). hopefully we’ll have fewer bitter cloves this year.

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