pasta dinner

Dinner

Ok, a day late posting, but I was seized by the need for veggies last night, and made a fabulous pasta primavera with a goat cheese sauce. It was lovely and springy, and exactly what I needed last night.

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glory of the snow

Pansies

So just yesterday I was telling my mother that I’d been avoiding the garden centers because I really wanted some pansies, but didn’t quite know what to do with them, so wasn’t going to buy any. This morning, at her church, one of the parishioners brought in a ton of pansies she didn’t want any

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spring flowers

Garden Notes

It’s amazing what hitting 60 degrees will do. The daffodils were barely budding yesterday. This picture was taken when I got home from work. By the time we were back from dinner (yep, totally choked on any amount of cooking creativity and went out to eat), almost all of the buds in this picture were

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beef and bok choy stew

Dinner

Now, I’m not that much of a beef girl. I think I’ve had my own personal steak precisely once in my life. If I want some beefy goodness, I go for beef stew. Of course, the season for that is winding down now, so for probably the last time until next winter, I made my

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the side garden

Garden Notes

The garden is coming along, considering how early it still is for the season. The hyacinths have actually started to bud, so I’ll soon have more then just crocus. Thursday was an absolutely lovely, seasonally warm day, so I took the opportunity to take all of my perennial pots out of winter hibernation in the

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