by Sarah Lemon | May 13, 2025 | Recipes, Vegetarian, Spring, Summer
Resolved to squeeze as much food as we can out of our small-ish suburban yard, my husband and I intermingle ornamentals and edibles. Pencil-sized leeks punctuate our flower beds. Strawberries sprawl around our backyard rosebush. And our front yard is a riot of...
by Sarah Lemon | Mar 11, 2025 | Recipes, Vegetarian, Spring
My enthusiasm for eggs runs strong all year long. So it’s easy to forget that this supermarket staple has a season — unless you make a point to shop the region’s first farmers markets of spring. While March markets’ fresh produce is still scanty — even supplemented...
by Sarah Lemon | Jan 19, 2025 | Recipes, Vegetarian, Spring, Winter
It’s a bleak season for seasonal eaters in Southern Oregon — a time of “default-mode” cooking, rather than inspiration from nature. After a solid three months of eating winter squash, interspersed with potatoes and root vegetables, propped up by hardy greens, I’m...
by Sarah Lemon | Oct 21, 2024 | Recipes, Vegetarian, Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter
The time has come to baby basil. Lest they blacken once nights turned frigid, my garden’s lushest, least leggy basil are ensconced in terra cotta pots indoors. For mint, there’s no such accommodation. A persistent perennial, the herb will wait out winter in its pot by...
by Sarah Lemon | Apr 6, 2024 | Recipes, Vegetarian, Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter
The pop of coriander seeds, the piquant bite of fresh ginger, the tang of lemon that never could have come from a mere tablespoon of juice. I just jarred another batch of my family’s favorite carrot kraut. The condiment that started as a savvy way to use up a surplus...
by Sarah Lemon | Apr 1, 2024 | Recipes, Vegetarian, Spring
Eat-local enthusiasts hunger for springtime’s start to local open-air farmers markets. The calorie payoff, however, is still months in the making as leafy greens, herbs and even garden starts constitute the vast majority of freshly grown items for sale. ...
