Our Share of the Harvest

We are drowning in tomatoes!  But we’ll survive.  We’ll make it through by living on fresh salsa from here on out.  Salsa is hands down the best use of fresh tomatoes I can think of.  Easily customizable, hardly any fat or calories, full of nutrition and flavor. Tomatoes are kind of the darlings of the [...]

Greg and I are both grocery store veterans, he made his $6 an hour as a produce boy and I made mine moving up the cashier ranks.  I actually learned quite a bit from that job that make me more effective in my current job but I also learned a lot of softer skills.  For [...]

This week (July 17th-25th) is the Buy Local Challenge in Maryland!! Basically, you go the website and sign up to pledge: “I pledge to eat at least one thing from a local farm everyday during Buy Local Week.” Come on, how many Facebook groups do you join?  Or stupid emails do you forward?  Or votes [...]

I was all prepared to make a beet salad when I stumbled on a recipe for ravioli with a beet filling.  It took about a millisecond for Greg to decide that beet ravioli was several million times more appetizing than beet salad so dinner was decided. Unfortunately, I don’t have a pasta roller.  I’ve thought [...]

Have you ever totally ignored the existence of something–a certain brand of car, a certain breed of dog, a phrase or a product–until it’s brought to your attention.  And then it’s EVERYWHERE.  You never even noticed the Nissan Cube until someone pointed out that it is the ugliest car on the road and now you [...]