How to Plant Garlic in the Winter for Early Summer Harvest

I'm a newbie to the gardening game, so imagine my excitement when I found out that I could plant some veggies in the fall to have them appear in spring or early summer.

Love it.

And with all the cooking I've been doing lately, I have discovered I use a lot of garlic. So why not start my fall planting experiment with garlic.

I started by breaking apart the garlic into individual cloves, keeping the thin shells on each.

Ripening Tomatoes Indoors: It's Easy

My garden was a little delayed in harvesting thanks to a little thing called flooding in Colorado this year. It water-logged most of my plants right at prime harvest time.

So after things dried up, I cleaned up the fruits that were no good, and decided to let the remaining tomatoes in particular hang out for a bit in the garden.

When I could finally hold out no longer, I took the tomatoes - mostly my San Marzanos - off the plant, placed them in a box in the hopes that they would ripen in my kitchen. I had nothing to lose really.

Chipotle Shrimp Tacos with Avocado Crema

I discovered Foodie Crush the other day; in particular this recipe on the blog – Chipotle Shrimp Burritos with Simple Avocado Crema.

One word: Awesome.

How did I come upon this recipe? I bought chipotle in adobo sauce to make tacos out of the cookbook, Salsas and Tacos, I got for my birthday in September. If you’re interested in checking that out, visit the Santa Fe Cooking School’s online store here.

I wasn’t really sure how the tacos, which involved shredded chicken with chipotle seasoning as well as a sour cream (crème fraiche is what it actually calls for) sauce blended with the abovementioned chipotles in adobo sauce. Turns out, I really liked it.