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Quick Leek Soup

Put soup into mouth hole. Nom nom nom.

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I love leeks.  They grow easily in the garden, and they’re super tasty grilled or shredded and steamed as a base for fish.  The only thing with leeks is that they don’t store well once harvested, and for as easily as they grow, you can end up with a lot of leeks just [...]

iUrbanHayseed

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In my other life, I’m a techie guy.  I just enrolled in the Apple iOS Developer Program, which mostly only means that I can test my apps on an actual device instead of the simulator, and an app I was working on was to make use of GPS and the camera, neither of [...]

Growing Potatoes: Repeated Hilling is Dumb

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One of my most popular posts, to this day, is this one about Growing Potatoes in Tires.  That was three years ago now.  I thought it might be worth revisiting this whole thing.  My opinion these days is that most of us are missing the point about this whole “hilling” thing.

Hilling potatoes [...]

LUNCH!

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Sometimes, I feel like my garden’s not cutting it.  I still have to buy tomatoes, and it’s heading into August soon.  The aphids have discovered my brassicas.  My only peaches obviously have residents at this point.

But, then, I make myself lunch from the garden:

Today, I had fingerling potatoes sauteed in [...]

Pig Roast 2000*

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*Yes, I know it’s not the year 2000.  It’s always called that.  I don’t even think it started in 2000.  Portlanders, eh?

This weekend was the annual pig roast that my neighbors throw.  It is always quite an event and has come to mean that we’re in the peak of summer.  This year, [...]