This Year’s Garden

This Year’s Garden

Every garden year is different.  Because I grow a wide variety of fruits and vegetables, I can usually be assured that I’ll get some good harvests of most things, even if occasional failures occur.  Thirty-three years of growing in the same area also contribute a lot of knowledge of how things work and increase the chance of success. Peppers, Sweet and Hot This year we had a better than average and most bountiful harvest of peppers, both sweet and hot....
Instant Pot Vegetable Bean Soup

Instant Pot Vegetable Bean Soup

Vegetable bean soup is one of our standby dishes in the fall and winter.  I make it every couple of weeks in the Instant Pot.  Using the Instant Pot is a very carefree way of making this soup but you can certainly cook it on the stove top. The basics of the soup are the same each time but you can vary it by the type of beans and veggies and herbs you use.  I used a mix of fresh and frozen garden vegetables. Unlike our Capucijner pea soup, the...

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