Category: Food

Purple & red potato hash with red shallots, bacon, lemon, parmesan, and kale (served with fried eggs on top) October strawberries from our garden Tuna salad with capers, sweet onion, shredded carrot, sea salt & pepper on baby kale Guinness chili Banana muffins Macarons (a sweet gift from our even sweeter friend Elisha) Lentil stew … Continue reading “How We’ve Been Eating”

Last week, I got the old familiar craving for something comforting and delicious- a French dish my mom used to make for us when we were growing up (yes, we ate well). It’s a dish that takes a bit of time- a lot of chopping and sautéing and stirring and watching, but I’ve found that … Continue reading “Yummy Stuff: Coq Au vin Rosettes”

Our early fall garden is doing remarkably well after I went through and pulled up all of our demolished cruciferous plants- the kale, cabbage, broccoli and rapini- all of it sad and eaten by cabbage butterflies and their caterpillars. More kale went in quickly to get the most of our growing season, and this time … Continue reading “Yummy Stuff: Roasted Butternut Squash with Thyme”

Frankly, things went from sucky to suckier really fast over the past couple of days. At the same time a very close family member discovered she has cancer, a friendship that meant a lot to me dissolved unexpectedly. Both situations are extremely personal to me and this is not the space to share them, but … Continue reading “Yummy Stuff: Caramel Sea Salt Brownies”

Early this week, I checked on our tomatoes. There, tucked away close to the center of the monstrous plants, was quite a bounty. Twelve pounds of tomatoes, to be exact. And they were quite ripe- a thing to behold and not to mess around with, as twelve pounds of rotten tomatoes is something to be … Continue reading “Yummy Stuff: Late Summer Harvest Gazpacho”