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Here’s a healthy, tasty way to use those home-roasted tomatoes you made in August, along with lots of other garden vegetables.
Roasted Red Pepper and Tomato Soup
6 red peppers
1 yellow onion
2 cloves of garlic
2 carrots
1 quart of home roasted tomatoes, or 1 28 oz can of fire roasted tomatoes
2 cups of carrot juice (fresh is best, [...]

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Try this Vegan Green Bean Casserole!

About two years ago I stumbled upon a recipe for Vegan Green Bean Casserole on Fat Free Vegan.  I’ve been back to visit the recipe several times since then, but I hadn’t made it until last weekend.  Now I know: whether you are a vegan, a vegetarian or a meat eater, you will LOVE this [...]

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Next year I am planting more San Marzanos. We have been making tray after tray of slow roasted tomatoes, and the San Marzanos are better than any other variety for this purpose.  Yeah, we have roasted every variety we have, but the San Marzanos are so meaty and they have great flavor when roasted!
There [...]

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Garden Fresh Three Bean Salad

I picked a pound or two of fresh beans over the weekend, and turned them in to a fabulous three-bean salad.  Much better than store-bought!!!
Garden Fresh Three Been Salad

1-2 pounds pound of fresh garden beans (I used a mixture of jade, romano purpuriat and romano gold beans)
1 fresh Walla Walla sweet onion from the garden
1 [...]

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Here’s the loot from tonight’s garden trip:
Nelson and Sugar Snax Carrots, Romano Purpuriat and Jade Beans, Butterstick Summer Squash, Partenon Zucchini and two little Sungold Tomatoes.
The tomatoes aren’t really that ripe, the Sungold plant just had a rough couple of days and decided the end might be near, so it ripened some tomatoes. I [...]

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The spring greens are taking over the garden! We’ve been harvesting mass quantities of lettuce, spinach, swiss chard and pac choi.  Last night we had a beautiful spinach salad for dinner, with a side of steamed spinach. (It’s a good thing we love spinach!)  Tonight we had a salad made of flashy oak butter, mascara [...]

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