What in the heck is a garlic scape? It sounds like it’s fleeing…that can’t be good. (So went the doubtful voice in my head as I was reading the list of produce included in the week 3 CSA box, on my way to pick it up.) If you didn’t know, a garlic scape is the […]
CSA Week 2: Vegetable Potstickers with Sweet Chili Soy Sauce
A few weeks ago, I stumbled across a recipe for spring veggie potstickers that immediately peaked my interest. So last week when I opened up my CSA box and found a bounty of late-spring produce, I immediately figured out how to adapt the recipe to the veggies in my box. What I received for week […]
Did you know that the English word cherry is actually the result of a misunderstanding? That’s right. Back in the thirteenth century when we were stealing all kinds of words from French (ahem), those Anglo-Saxons heard the French word cherise (modern French cerise) and assumed it must be plural! In fact, it wasn’t…but we hacked […]
Oh, pizza topped with asparagus, where have you been all my life? I am so happy that we had a cool spring and the asparagus season lasted a little longer! When my CSA box arrived with a tidy bundle of green and purple spears, I almost danced with joy. This pizza is seriously delicious. It […]
When I was a kid, I always ate my spinach. Want to know why? It was always smothered in ranch dressing. I think I actually may have been eating more ranch dressing than spinach, which probably doesn’t even count as eating a vegetable. (As a result of this childhood experience, I am a little horrified […]
Sautéed Purple Asparagus
Did I tell you we joined a farm? Maybe joined isn’t the right word, but I definitely think about it as my farm these days! What we actually did is buy a CSA share for the summer. In case that’s an unfamiliar acronym, CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture, and it’s a program that many […]
A few days ago, Jake and I wandered outside to drop a few things into the mailbox. My neighbor immediately came rushing over with an armful of mint, freshly snipped from her garden. (And before I made it back inside, I was also gifted a huge handful of oregano and sage! Yay for neighbors who […]