Recipes for Spring

Pick them young, before the choke develops and try this.

“This recipe is so good, I have to share it.”

It is not so hard to cook dried beans on your stove top.

Around mid-June our hardneck garlic sends up scapes – curly stems you can eat.

Would our white “Aztec” beans work in this dish?

JAs are delicious roasted, and as soup.

Spring is the time for kale sprouts – the best part of the plant.

Frijoles refritos are easy to make, and Borlotti beans work really well.

A versatile Finnish cake with apples or other fruit.

There is more to it than pie and crumble.

has an unexpected gentleness on the palate and a subtle flavour…

Utterly delicious – worth keeping a small bed of sorrel somewhere.

An Indian recipe for spinach, this works with cabbage or kale, too.

Jayne brought some to our work parties. Delicious!

My favorite bean dish, using our large white “Aztec” beans, or borlottis.