Garden Wisdom Blog — category: Recipes

Roasting garlic transforms it from spicy, sharp, and pungent to sweet and smokey. The garlic loses its hard texture and becomes creamy and smooth. There are lots of ways to achieve this, but our preferred method is this simple roasted garlic recipe. Preheat the oven to bake at 400°F (205°C). Using a sharp knife, carefully cut through the top 5mm (1/4″) of the upper side of a whole garlic bulb. This is the flat side, opposite the root end. This cut should expose all of the largest cloves in the bulb. Be sure to keep the parts trimmed off for...

Pizza Margherita is supposedly the original prototype of all pizzas that followed. Tradition holds that its three simple toppings symbolize the red (tomato sauce), green (basil), and white (mozzerella) of the Italian Flag. It is a pizza constructed with restraint, that features the simple flavours of a minimal number of toppings. There are a multitude of variations when it comes to crust, sauce, and toppings, but we like this recipe for its simplicity. It’s a great way to use up cherry tomatoes, which can be very abundant during high summer. Our Margherita Pizza with Cherry Tomato Sauce recipe makes two...

Simple Corn Soup: Three little words that really mean what they say in this recipe. This is the perfect summer soup to serve warm and start a harvest meal. It provides all the joy of buttery rich sweet corn on the cob, except there’s no cob, no buttery fingers, and no mess! This soup transforms the corn-on-the-cob experience into a rather more elegant affair. It forms the platform for any number of toppings or applications. Adjust the water content to adjust the thickness. Make it thicker to enjoy as a purée on which to place steamed baby carrots and scallopini...

Ah, the zucchini – the crop that keeps on giving and giving! By the fifth week of harvesting bundles of the tender fruits, you’ve had it in pasta. You’ve had them grilled. You’ve made zucchini bread. You’ve even tried the Masala Zucchini recipe! As tempers wear thin, and you begin to question the wisdom of planting five zucchini plants, it must be time to attempt Chocolate Zucchini Cake! While no specific health claims can be made about this indulgent dessert, it does produce one of the richest, chocolatiest, and most moist of all cakes imaginable. It is an easy recipe...

This Gazpacho Verde recipe makes the perfect introduction to an outdoor meal on a hot summer evening. Served chilled, it is both cooling and refreshing, with a refined flavour that is out of this world. This cold (vegan) soup can form the base for countless variations of garnishes and complementary items. It’s a very simple recipe, with only a handful of ingredients — but it must be prepared in advance so it has at least one to two hours to chill. Ingredients: 3 cups English cucumber, sliced thinly 1 cup fresh Sweet Basil leaves 2 Tbsp fresh Oregano leaves, removed...