Although beets come in different varieties and can be striped like a peppermint, typically when someone mentions beets, you see a picture of a purple root vegetable in your mind. If you have ever handled beets, you are aware of the purple stain that gets on your hands or even on your clothes if you're not careful. This purple color also escapes into water if you boil beets. Typically if you are boiling an item, once it has reach it's desired state, you toss the water. I a

The best part about federal holidays is that most people have the day off and are able to spend time with family. Sunday and Monday, my boys and I (hubby decided to catch up on some sleep) harvested some items from our garden in preparation for today. Salad I unexpectantly ended up with some lettuce plants (although hubby suggests that these occurrences happen too often to be considered unexpected). This was the first time I have ever planted any lettuce and we planted thre

Last year, we grew mint for the first time. We selected two chocolate mint plants from our local nusery and grew them in pots on the window sill of our sunroom. The plants did not grow back this year. We really liked the chocolate mint so we purchased two new plants this year and one sweet mint plant. We placed one plant in each planter we have built into our deck. The sweet mint plant grew quickly. It was time to harvest some leaves and make something tasty. We really