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Print Date Nut Bread Recipe with Jujube (Chinese red Date) Ingredients 1 ½ cup dried Jujubes Red Chinese dates ½ cup Papa Paulo Port 2 ½ cups water 1 Tbsp baking soda 1 cup chopped pecans optional 2 cups granulated sugar 3 tbsp butter 2 eggs beaten 1 tsp salt 4 ½ cups all […]
JUJUBE – GARDENING TIPS FROM THE CULINARY VIEW as recommended by Michael Vidrine It is certain that August will be a warm month and possibly quite dry as well. Despite tough growing conditions, we will be harvesting one of our most hardy and somewhat unusual fruit trees – the jujube. The jujube (Ziziphus jujuba ) […]
Print Cowboy Caviar Ingredients 2 cups cooked black beans – cooled 2 cups cooked southern peas also known as cow peas or black eye peas- cooled 1-2 cups Fresh diced tomatoes 2 cups cooked corn kernels 1 small red onion diced 1 green bell pepper 1 jalapeno minced 1 bunch cilantro chopped S+P to […]
SOUTHERN PEAS – GARDENING TIPS FROM THE CULINARY VIEW as recommended by Michael Vidrine July is the first full month of summer and brings hot days and warm nights. July is typically our lowest rainfall month as well so the crops we are growing now need to be robust. Fortunately, there are many wonderful vegetables […]
Print Ingredients 1 lb Fresh Blackberries hulled and rinsed 3 Tbsp sugar 3 Tbsp AP flour ½ cup MH port 2 cups rolled oats 1 cup flour 1 cup brown sugar ½ lb cubed cold butter 1 Tbsp cinnamon Instructions • In a bowl mix together the berries/sugar/ flour/port• In a separate bowl mix together […]
BLACKBERRIES – GARDENING TIPS FROM THE CULINARY VIEW as recommended by Michael Vidrine When I was a boy my family would go “berry-ing” this time of year. Each armed with a bucket and a stick we would pick wild dewberries. The bucket held the harvest and the stick was used to probe for unwanted critters […]
PLUMS-GARDENING TIPS FROM THE CULINARY VIEW as recommended by Michael Vidrine In May we are right in the middle of Spring. This month we start harvesting some of our stone fruit including one of my favorites, plums. There are several plums native to Texas including the Chickasaw plum and the Mexican plum both of which are […]
Tips for your Garden in April as recommended by Michael Vidrine By April, we are well into Spring and the vegetable garden is transitioning from cool to warm season vegetables. Many of the crops that have been growing through the winter have been harvested or they have bolted and been removed. One hardy leafy green […]
Tips for your Garden in March as recommended by Michael Vidrine March is often a month that can’t decide if its Winter or Spring – freezing one day and very warm the next. Despite the variability, Spring does officially arrive this month and lots of our flowering plants burst into bloom including one or our […]
Print Mixed Season Lettuce with a Berry Grenache Vinaigrette For the salad base use a blend of Romaine, Butter Crunch, Black Simpson, Oak Leaf and Red Tip (or a mix of whatever lettuces you have). I like to try to use the leaves in their whole form and stack them for plate presence. Ingredients ½ […]
