Our Share of the Harvest

Fall rolls around and all of a sudden everything I make turns harvest-y.  Cheesecake gets pumpkin-y, cakes get caramel-y and frosting gets maple-y.  It’s just the thing to do. So when I saw “Cranberry Harvest Muffins” in Ina Garten’s Barefoot Contessa Cookbook, I knew they would fill some breakfast slots this fall.  Or, I had [...]

Can you imagine a 23-year old college guy going apple-picking with his girlfriend?  Sounds kinda lame and wussy right?  Well, luckily Greg doesn’t care about the potential for wussiness because he and I have been going to local orchards to pick apples for years.  I know he first did it just to appease me and [...]

Fall tends to bring out the warm, mushy side of people.  It kicks off a whole season of coziness, getting together, celebration and giving thanks.  We mammals are hard-wired to seek out warmth during the fall but, unlike our ancestors, most of us have our heat controlled by a little box on the wall and [...]

I’ve been jealous of my city-dwelling friends for awhile.  I would love to spend just a year living in DC or Baltimore for the experience of it, appreciating having so much of what I need close by.  Greg has his reasons for wanting to stay in the suburbs (parking and crime being his top two) [...]

I have a bowl of eggplants. Greg doesn’t like moussaka, eggplant parm or eggplants in general.  So, I have a bowl of eggplants and two options: make something he won’t like and leave it up to him to eat it or cereal OR try something new with components he might like.  Because I’m a nice [...]