Jane's Garden Report

Quickly Sate Your Appetite! Fast Food Vegetarian Meal on a Summer's Day   Possible List of Ingredients: Zucchini or any variety of Summer SquashCo...

This roasted beet and pecan salad can be served for lunch, or as a side dish or dinner salad.

Even people who swear they despise brussel sprouts will love this dish.

Spring and early summer are times to celebrate one of my favorite legumes, the Fava Bean. If you've never seen, eaten or grown favas, also known as broad beans, you've been missing out on one of life's short & healthy sweet pleasures!

Black Mustard Seed, Cumin Seed, Asofoetida, Ajowain, Star Anise Seed, Cinnamon Stick, and whole Nutmeg

This delicious healthy spring, summer or autumn soup needs a minimum of ingredients and preparation. I recommend using heirloom beets.

This main course grain & vegetable 'salad' has been the hit dish of this summer season in our household for home or pot luck meals. The cooked quinoa, mixed with roast potatoes or tofu along with the freshest just cooked green vegetables from the farmer's market, lightly seasoned with the tastes of summer, make this dish not only easy to prepare but delicious to eat & filled with protein for someone on a vegetarian diet!

Summer time staple!! Zucchini Soup, nourishing, fast, simple & one way to use up that preponderance of Zucchinis!

I am such a lazy gardener that I had the good fortune this spring to discover a veritable emerald forest of 'volunteer' young cilantro seedlings in the vegetable bed! Upon this serendipitous discovery I created a delicious way to make use of this delicious, nutritious & fragrant herb.

Why not build up your immune system, eat delicious food & escort potential radiation exposure out of your system at the same time! Try this easy way to eat your seaweed & your greens too! Just add a cup of nettles & red clover tea with this meal & you'll double your benefits in protecting your health after exposure to radiation or to prepare your immune system for whatever the future may hold.

Japanese researchers studied survivors of the atomic blast in Hiroshima & Nagasaki. Russian researchers after Chernobyl found miso & soy products such as tofu, and with seaweed, specifically kombu or kelp were effective in escorting radiation out of the body. Read More

I recently discovered this recipe in a recipe journal that I started when I moved to Houston with Curtis in 1984. I used to get lots of local peaches in Texas, one of the fruits that state is known for & make peach salsa, peach chutney & this peach relish! The acidity of the tomatoes & the peaches seems to complement one another. If you're a corn, tomato or peach lover like we are, their abundance now in the late summer makes this a fast & easy relish to add the sun's energy to any meal!