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Pepper Flower

June 15th, 2012 · 3 Comments

Pickled Peppers and Homemade Hot Sauce are on the horizon!

We sowed our first sets of seed garlic cloves in the fall following the colder climate method, and is typically the last crop to go into the garden before winter. Garlic is usually planted in the late fall and harvested the following early summer.

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Tags: Homestead · Ingredients

Wild Mushrooms à la Crème

October 22nd, 2009 · 15 Comments

This image is circa 1985 and taken while working the evening sauté station when in the second Sous Chef position. This scanned image, originally taken with an Olympus OM10 35mm camera and printed as a 3×5 photograph, is a bit grainy at higher resolution in this digital format. The appetizer priced at $4.95 at the time seems like a real bargain price today for these delectable morsels. The garnish also consisted of a green onion flower and a tomato rose, adding both color and variety to the place presentation.

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Tags: Appetizers · Columns Hotel · Ingredients · Recipes

Stir-Fried Chicken

October 14th, 2009 · 12 Comments

For this recipe, I used a combination of broccoli florets, shredded Chinese cabbage, sliced button mushrooms, mung bean sprouts, diced tomatoes from the garden, and snow peas for the fresh vegetables and water chestnuts with baby corn for the canned vegetables