wine Archives : Cast Iron Garden

March 26, 2024March 23, 2024

03/22/2024 garden tastes

Sometimes it feels like adding cilantro or walking onions is how a lot of dinners end up blog eligible.

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September 23, 2023September 23, 2023

09/23/2023 hors d’ourves

The Chef pours the house wine (from farm share muscadine grapes). The cucumber appetizers are topped with feta and tomato (farmshare) and who knows what else. They were good!

December 16, 2022December 16, 2022

12/16/2022 rosemary recovery

The rosemary was unhappy near the raised beds as the irrigation leaked there. The roots were rotting. The second plant was almost dead. Hopefully it will be drier here.

Basil getting some sun. We’ve been nursing it along with nights in the garage.

This Euphorbia maculata is still alive and looking lovely.

Wes did some wine bottling today. The muscadine grapes were from the farm share and the elderberries were from our yard!

Shackleton was enjoying scritches and sunshine until Briar showed up to gaze admiringly. He does not like the dog.

January 22, 2022January 22, 2022

Frozen summer tomatoes become winter tasty foods

Pasta sauce over The Chef’s homemade pasta contains white currant tomatoes from freezer.

Paula’s focaccia bread (in front of pasta) is also topped with white currant tomatoes cut in half. Note the cranberry-crabapple wine in the background.