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 | Jan 5, 2025 | Recipes, Vegetarian, Winter
After the celebration comes the catharsis — that inevitable literal and figurative purging following the holiday season. After taking down and packing up holiday decorations this week, I deep-cleaned the kitchen, sifted through piles of paperwork on my desk and...
by Sarah Lemon | Oct 28, 2024 | Recipes, Vegetarian, Fall, Winter
Pumpkin may be autumn’s icon, but America’s favorite fall flavor arguably is butternut squash. Those little sugar pumpkins — aka pie pumpkins — certainly are cute in their corpulence. Their taste and texture, however, don’t appeal as much as their aesthetic. So food...
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 | Oct 4, 2024 | Recipes, Vegetarian, Fall
I’m ordinarily not one to dig potatoes — unless I literally get to dig potatoes. Ambivalent to the average supermarket spud, I couldn’t be more passionate about potatoes homegrown in Southern Oregon. Far from the bland filler I associate with long-keeping russets,...
