Our Share of the Harvest

I am the meal planner in our household.  I choose 4-5 recipes, mark the magazine/cookbook/website I got it from, take an inventory of what we have, make the grocery list and shop for the ingredients.  Then, on any given work night, Greg will ask me what we’re having for dinner, I’ll pick a recipe and [...]

For a bridal shower, I was assigned The Vegetable Tray.  As most potluck contributors know, The Vegetable Tray, that bastion of buffet appetizers, is probably the easiest yet most forgettable dish one can contribute.  If you’re not into cooking, it’s awesome because you just go to the grocery store, plunk down $14 and get celery, [...]

At the risk of sounding like a total fangirl, I find that every-other recipe I star in my Google Reader is from the blog Smells Like Home.  Tara’s photos are so lovely and her food always looks delicious and approachable.  This recipe is one of her most recent that I’ve starred because it makes great [...]

This month’s What’s Baking was hosted by Dani, of Cloud 8 1/2, who charged us with baking a family favorite.  I recently had a real awakening to the power of favorite family foods. My grandfather was an amazing man.  He helped me move into college, taught me steer to his boat and always had a [...]

Normally, my Thursday post would be the pick up post, featuring all the delicious fresh veggies that seemed to magically appear in our bin.  Sadly, the winds of Hurricane Irene and the massive flooding of Lee wrecked havoc on the established late summer veggies and early fall seedlings and we had no pick up this [...]