Lettuce

My video about transplanting Jalapeno paid off. Now it’s starting to flower and fruit. That’s the consolation I get from planting from seed. I just can’t help but smile to see some fruit of my labor. I like to use Jalapeno in making salsa. It’s easy to make. I put about four quartered tomatoes in…

I have been gathering sayote from my garden for awhile now and I can’t keep up with the fruits. Some are getting mature already and ready to be planted again. Its funny how it gives fruits continuously and then suddenly stops and then continues fruiting again. I have made so many recipes out of these…

We call these delectable green vegetable Baguio beans because they are mostly grown in the Mountain Province where the temperature is cooler than the lowlands in the Philippines and Baguio City is the most popular destination during the hot summer months.

  We have been using squash flowers for as long as I can remember in cooking.  But the method is just simple.  Removing the anthers first and then mixing it with other vegetables seasoned with fish sauce is the norm.  But I found out that the popularity of using the flowers in the modern culinary…

This is my latest experimentation on lettuces. I bought the seeds just because of the picture. I thought it would look good in my lettuce garden bed. So after a few weeks, I am starting to harvest them. In combination of other types of lettuce plus the arugula, it makes the salad more appetizing. It…

Artichoke is perennial vegetable that belongs to the thistle family of plants. The edible part of the plant is the bud before it opens into a flower. The immature florets in the center of the bud is called the “choke” but its not edible. You have to remove it from the base called the heart,…