Our Share of the Harvest

Yay!  We’ve made it to the half way point in our CSA share and life is pretty good.  We’ve been eating well, contributing to what we believe in and saving money.  Really.  Our food bill has gone up but we’ve been so far under our typical dining out budget that it more than makes up [...]

I think one of the hallmarks of being a grown up is being asked to “bring a dish to share”.  When I was in high school, hanging out with friends meant either my Mom would make cupcakes, we’d order a pizza or we’d stop at the grocery store for salt and vinegar chips and diet [...]

Like most kids in the 80′s and 90′s, my weekday breakfasts consisted of mostly Pop Tarts, Toaster Strudels and Cocoa Krispies.  Fortunately, weekend breakfasts were a whole different story.  I remember waking up to sounds of silverware clinking on dishes and the smell of bacon or pancakes wafting through the whole farmhouse.  Both my Mom [...]

Ok, so we talked about cold side dishes, now we have a hot side dish showdown.  Once again, we were looking to use the CSA to complement grilled meats: flank steak rubbed with coarse mustard one day and chicken breast rubbed with McCormick Grill Mates Chicken Rub the next.  Sidebar: I wasn’t crazy about the [...]

Like two conspiring twin Hayley Mills’ (I could said Lindsay Lohans but that analogy would make a mockery of the chemical-free nature of our veggies), the CSA share and the hot weather have forced us to change plans and discover something new: the fresh veggie side dish.  I have to confess that we rarely make [...]