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Archive for March, 2008

Garden started

Posted in garden on March 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

One of my favorite things about food is making it. Not just making it from scratch with all the right ingredients, but making it from soil and seeds and water. Last year we had no garden, but instead had a little nino – a darling baby boy. But this year, as he is [...]

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Good and Local

Posted in citrus, local food on March 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »

We did the local thing as much as possible this trip, but of course the camera wasn’t always around so we didn’t get much by way of pictures. But we did get some. There is so much by way of locally produced food, and a support to sustainable agriculture here. I would love [...]

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By demand

Posted in cabbage, local food, onions on March 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Matt’s aunt El was asking about a cabbage thing I made to go with our locally made kielbasa the other night. We didn’t have any kraut, so we had to improvise. So I sauted some red and green cabbage with onion – one onion or so to a half a head of cabbage [...]

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Local food

Posted in local food on March 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

This is a reminder to me that I want to post about all of the local food we’re enjoying, including raw milk from my grandfather-in-law’s dairy farm (and the cream on top!) Yum.

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Veggie Omelet

Posted in america's test kitchen cookbook, eggs, freezer, spinach, vegetables on March 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Before leaving to visit family, we had a lot of produce to use up, mostly spinach, and a fair number of eggs. So what did we do? We dug around in the freezer, found some roasted red peppers from this summer, and sauted up some peppers, spinach, the tail end of a red [...]

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Sugar on Snow

Posted in local food on March 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I like to see food the way food is made. We have been doing a lot of “foodie” things while traveling in the northeast, but one fun thing was sugar on snow. Matt has asked if we could make “sugar on snow”, and of course my reply has always been “Sure! What is [...]

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