Souped-up Garden

cooking with garden-fresh ingredients grown in an intensive southwest France urban potager; writing book reviews; traveling around & about, mostly in France; taking photographs and making art of it all

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Tuesday, 28 August 2012

How to Harvest Charentais Melons and Grow Carrots...plus making velouté de carottes

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Since we live in the Poitou Charente region of France, it's appropriate to grow succulent, fragrant Charentais melons which look li...
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Tuesday, 21 August 2012

How to Make French Onion Soup...and fresh green bean salad

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With temperatures in the nineties, summer is reaching a climax.  This tall Queen Elizabeth rosebush is preparing for autumn with a last sp...
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Tuesday, 14 August 2012

How to Make Mirabelle Plum Jam...and refrigerator pickles

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Being the third summer into my rejuvenating an once neglected garden, it is encouraging to see plans being realised.  An eight-foot square...
Tuesday, 7 August 2012

How to Make Fresh Basil Pesto...and tomato soup concentrate & gazpacho

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The fruit harvest throughout France has been greatly reduced this season. Instead of several bushels of plums,  I have just a few small b...
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