Kitchen Gardening Archives - Healthy Green Kitchen

Essential List of Edible Flowers (with Pictures!)

There’s more food waiting to be harvested in your yard than you think. Here are twenty delicious edible flowers you’re likely to find growing right outside your door.

How to Make and Store Dried Tomatoes

With the growing season quickly coming to a close, I’ve got a glut of San Marzano tomatoes right now. Seems like the perfect time to try sun-drying them. After reading this beautifully photographed process of making sun-dried tomatoes a few weeks back, I really wanted to go the sun-dried route. But since the weather has … Read more

Tomato and Summer Squash Cobbler + A Giveaway

Amanda from HeartBeet Kitchen is one of the sweetest bloggers I know, and I’ve fallen in love with her new cookbook: Smitten with Squash (Northern Plate). Since my squash plants are incredibly prolific this year, I am so grateful for this resource. It has many, many wonderful-looking recipes for both summer and winter squash.

The first recipe I decided to try was the Tomato and Summer Squash Cobbler: I served this last weekend at my family birthday dinner. I used a combination of Sungold and regular cherry tomatoes (the Sungolds were from my garden but I didn’t have a whole pint of ripe ones so ended up buying the others) along with homegrown pattypan squash and zucchini.

I also grew the thyme, onion, and garlic!

The flavors of the tomatoes and squash really deepen in a beautiful way when they are baked…this dish is SO delicious.

It’s been almost a month since I last wrote a blog post: I don’t think I’ve ever taken this long of a break! Why the silence? No particular reason except that I’m having a fun summer ;)

I haven’t taken any big trips or done anything super exciting: I’ve just been tending to (and eating/cooking from) my garden,

I am so happy to finally give you a little peek at my 2014 garden, the place where my husband and I have been working our butts off most weekends for the past few months.