All Posts ByAndy

Garden Update II

Alright, so I intended to post this garden update in early July. Oops. Only missed by six weeks. As a result, way too much has happened with the garden for me to properly get into all of it. Here’s where we’re sitting right now. -I finally managed to fill most of the holes in my […]

Roasted Beet Bruschetta

Any way in which I attempt to open this post will pale beside the words of Tom Robbins as he opens his book Jitterbug perfume, so I am going to allow him to lead us out: “The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the […]

Wild Greens Omelette

I have an interesting history with omelettes. For a long time I was convinced that I simply could not eat them. There is something about eggs that have been cooked a little too long that makes my stomach turn. I need a moist scrambled egg, and all too often I find that omelettes are heavily […]

Lamb’s Quarters

Lamb’s Quarters, or Chenopodium album, is another plant that I have seen all over the place but was until very recently unaware of its edibility. I worked as a biological science technician and fire effects monitor for the National Park Service for about five and a half years. During that time I learned a ton […]