Our Share of the Harvest

There is no snack better than salsa.  Except maybe hummus but I haven’t seen any local Maryland chickpeas so we’re going to stick with salsa.  It’s fresh, delicious, super healthy, can be eaten just on chips or used as a topping for almost any meat/soup/carb/veggie.  Maybe best of all, when you make it yourself you [...]

We’ve started to see some noticeable casualties around here. More tomatoes than I wish to mention have hit the compost pile and yesterday some cut up watermelon and cantaloupe bit the dust. There’s a variety of contributing factors but mostly, there’s just a lot to keep up with. Two whole melons per week requires prep [...]

I used to get marinara sauce for $0.50.  Sometimes free, if I was really strategic.  See, working at the grocery store made me a Coupon Queen.  I knew how to stack coupons, match them to sale prices and get stuff for dirt cheap; I’d routinely spend only 30-50% of the list price on groceries.  Sadly, [...]

Pizza may be the single greatest dinner I can think of.  It’s quick, can be cheap or splurge-y, can be portioned for two or for ten, is amenable to all tastes and preferences, and is a terrific dumping ground for all the random stuff you have in your fridge or pantry. The only pizza that [...]

We had a cabbage problem.  As in, too much cabbage, not enough recipes.  But it wasn’t for lack of trying–we made eggrolls, regular coleslaw, fish taco coleslaw, a cabbage-radish salad and hot and sour soup with shrimp and cabbage.  Greg vetoed my desperate attempt to use a head for bacon and cabbage soup and I [...]