Fall is my favorite season of the year. I love the crisp, cool air, the leaves on the ground, and giving myself permission to eat heavier foods again. The week, CSA dumped a big pile of hard, green apples into my lap—perfect for making a fall dessert! Tarte tatin! This dessert is a little nerve-wracking […]
Let’s keep it sweet and simple. Like these corn cakes! This recipe was practically written for the ingredients in my fridge. CSA this week brought more corn, cherry tomatoes, and lettuce. Add in a handful of potted basil, a green pepper left over from last week, and a ripe avocado, and you’ve got a slam […]
My computer recently decided that its SD card reader didn’t exist. When you add that to the fact that two of the three USB ports had already abandoned ship, and that Word recently glitched and erased a whole day’s work on an editing project I was doing, you probably arrive at the conclusion that I […]
A few weeks ago, we went to Montreal with several of my husband’s siblings. Traveling with a baby is…interesting. We had fun, but I am not too eager to fly with Jake again soon (and sorry to everyone who suffered from burst eardrums when my cheerful, angelic child turned into a velociraptor). One of the […]
Ode to My Mandoline Oh mandoline! How your sharp, angled blade sets my heart a-flutter. Your smooth, white surface Parallel and barely offset from that blade Eagerly waits for squashes and eggplants To be swept across it. As I slice hundreds of thin slivers of vegetables, Quickly but carefully, I exclaim with surprise and delight […]
Um…do you ever get all excited about a picture of a recipe, only to read the ingredients and realize you totally misinterpreted what you saw in the picture? Yeah. I found a beautiful picture of salmon kebabs this week and did a little dance about how pretty the squash medallions looked with the salmon and […]
CSA Week 12: Niçoise Salad with Seared Tuna
I looked in my fridge this week and almost had a panic attack. It has finally hit me…the overwhelming overabundance of veg. You know, when I told my friends that I was joining a CSA for the summer, anyone who had ever done a CSA before me immediately commented that although it was a fun […]
I got several big, beautiful tomatoes last week in my CSA box…but then I went out of town before I could use them! I was afraid they would go bad sitting on my counter, and I would return home to a sticky, moldy mess—plus no tomatoes!—so I stuck them in the fridge. FYI: Don’t put […]
Corn! Corn! It’s here! And lo and behold, I also got a poblano in my box this week (along with several ears of corn, a watermelon, potatoes, grapes, several beautiful tomatoes, and a cucumber). It was a perfect storm of amazing, because I have been waiting to share this pizza recipe with you all summer. […]
CSA Week 9-10: Gazpacho
The first time I ever had gazpacho, it was more like a mealy pureed tomato than soup. I decided gazpacho wasn’t worth my time and promptly forgot about it. But last week, with three cucumbers and one beefsteak tomato in the same CSA box, I got to thinking. When three more tomatoes and a bell […]