Our Share of the Harvest

I had never really been exposed to any kind of Indian cuisine until I worked in a very international environment and found myself cubemates with  an Indian woman in a department that was fond of having group lunches at a local Indian buffet restaurant. If you’ve never been to an Indian buffet, I highly suggest [...]

Here’s the thing about me and coleslaw: I kind of hate it.  Look, I’ll eat it if you tell me it’s your great aunt’s recipe or your grandmother made it but if it doesn’t involve an old lady I’m trying to respect, I’m probably going to pass. The problem isn’t coleslaw itself, it’s the dizzying [...]

Well, I skipped over Week 2 because all we bought was some romaine lettuce and I didn’t think that would make for a very captivating post–there’s only so much you can say about one head of lettuce. This week, we saw a few new-comers to the pavilion.  We scored a huge swath of Swiss chard [...]

I think strawberries are the quintessential local, seasonal food.  Some people would argue that tomatoes better represent the kind of quality you can only get locally but I think the difference between a May strawberry from a farm near your house and a December strawberry from somewhere else in the world that ends up in [...]

To anyone who lives or has lived in a more rural area, these cookies should look somewhat familiar.  Versions of this recipe can be found on bake sales, at church socials, holiday gatherings and those compilation cookbooks firehouses sell.  Maybe they have chocolate chips instead of white chocolate or maybe they don’t include the oatmeal [...]