mushrooms

Thyme and Mushroom Soup

Thyme and Mushroom Soup

Soup is super, especially during cold seasons like fall and winter. With a warm bowl of soup, chilly days won’t seem as dreary and you can easily perk up even  
Garlic Mushroom Quinoa

Garlic Mushroom Quinoa

Here’s an easy side dish you’ll want to serve with every meal. The nutty quinoa melds with the earthy flavors of mushrooms and garlic to complement a host of main  
Wild Things!

Wild Things!

In the shade of mingling paulownias, eight children sprawled like a litter of puppies atop a blue tarp, fair heads and dark dappled by sunlight. Seasoned veterans of our library’s  
Fairies

Fairies

My father’s garden was beautifully kept, immaculately mowed and weeded—except for one corner that was totally fenced off so neither people or creatures (he had hens running free and several  
Veggie Soba Noodle Bowl

Veggie Soba Noodle Bowl

Rice noodles pair so well with mushrooms and other veggies that this bowl is healthier than you might think. The hard boiled egg adds a punch of protein and the  
The Special Delivery Mushrooms

The Special Delivery Mushrooms

Here in central Indiana, most people herald Spring’s arrival when crocuses burst through the soil and buds start popping on the cherry trees. As a young girl, I learned that  
The Gardener’s August

The Gardener’s August

I have long been in love with The Gardener’s Year, that most beautiful of garden reads. (Indeed, I first ran an excerpt from it back in GP#4!) How odd its  
Potatoes on Mars

Potatoes on Mars

In Andy Weir’s The Martian, astronaut Mark Watney, victim of a freak accident, has been left for dead on Mars. Now 140 million miles from home, stranded and incommunicado, but