It’s a great time of year for the under appreciated produce in your life! Cook up these garlic scapes during the precious short timeframe they’re coming in from the garden. It might sound odd to think of biting into a piece of garlic, but the subtle hints in these greens are much more reminiscent of…
Seasonal Recipes
Here you will find a compilation of recipes and ideas that correspond with the seasonally available ingredients coming out of the Southwestern Missouri garden this summer. Each of these recipes has been selected or created with the intention of bringing together simple, nutritious, and delicious meals straight from our garden to your kitchen.
Herbal Tea with Fresh Herbs
It took me two embarrassingly long years to get a mug of tea from my garden that didn’t taste like grass. The secret to a good cup of leaves? Use more than you think you need. Pair a strong flavor with more subtle flavors to bring the best out of them both. I like to…
Herb Garlic Knots
These are a staple with pizza in our family. Sometimes I make them with the same sourdough recipe I use for pizza, but these ones are really good when I don’t plan ahead.
Second Stomach Spinach Soup
What you’ve all been waiting for: my mother’s most disgusting looking soup that tastes like it’s straight from heaven’s cookbook. (Actually her Pink Flamingo Gut Soup looks worse, but I have no plans to put that on my website. That one can lay at rest in my childhood memories.)
