I was looking forward to March to get everything caught up for a last clean sweep of winter. But no….it decided to be Spring a few weeks early. With temps in the 70s most days and a few climbing into the 80s we have a full blooming spring right now! Most of the trees are budding and many are blooming, like never before. That meant climbing around the hills to rake off all the winter muck and moldy leaves so the newbies didn’t get smothered on those hot days.
After a decadent holiday like Thanksgiving I just need some simple and “clean” soup. Not that I don’t love the holiday and butter and cream. I adore butter and cream! Checking out the reserves in the refrigerator I discovered 4 beets remaining from the CSA box. They were a bit weathered, but still perfectly firm and good. A couple carrots and a wedge of cabbage secured the deal…Borsch!
My dad was a big smoker..well, he did smoke in his younger years, but what I really mean was he loved to smoke salmon and chicken and whatever. When he discovered a stove top smoker he loved it and gave me one for
It all started on our vacation in the mountains. My 4-year old daughter had her first taste of clam chowder at one of the local restaurants during our stay. She loved it! The very next day she and her dad took a trip to the local market to load up on some good eats and there they were, huddled behind a glass case… clams, lots of live clams.
Mulligatawny…Don’t you just love the sound of it? With fast approaching cooler days I’ve brought out the big soup pot. I love soup. I’ve often thought of opening a soup shop, ala Jerry Seinfeld’s “The Soup Nazi.” The actor, Larry Thomas, actually stayed at a B&B down the street about a year ago. He was doing a benefit in
Every other Friday I receive a gift. It’s almost like Christmas for me…but I actually paid for it…and I actually LOVE vegetables. It’s a CSA box. If you’re not familiar with the concept, it’s a wonderful thing that is “growing” around the nation. Community Supported Agriculture. In the spring you sign up for a subscription,
My International Lunch Ladies started it! They meet every other month at the Cookery for lunch. We decide on a date and then they pick a country. I come up with the menu and surprise them. It’s fun for me and fun for them. A small town in the Midwest does not offer many ethnic restaurants.
In November when they had chosen Vietnamese as
With a last sweep of the garden on this bright, but very cool, day I discovered the parsley had survived some very cold nights when everything else around it was dead. It doesn’t often happen this late in the season.Trying to think of some fun food gifts for friends is always a challenge, but the parsley got me thinking…last year I made bouquet garnis for Priscilla, and she was asking for more.
Since I was feeling a bit under the weather, I was hanging out watching the morning news shows which reported a strange sidebar to the flu scare…it could crash the internet. And…since I was feeling a bit under the weather…I was hanging out on the internet and now writing a blog for the internet. Seems you just can’t win! But, alas…I found a food solution—Chicken Soup!
I returned from a week out of town and made a tour of the garden. It had been a hot week and the window boxes and pots were in dire need of a thorough soaking. The tomatoes had started to ripen…finally, and the potato barrel was looking dreadful. Then I realized it was time to harvest! Only a couple of the plants had any green left on them, so I started pulling out the yellowed and withered plants.
