Our Share of the Harvest

I’ve been meaning to post this for over a month but bees and baby showers don’t exactly mingle well with Christmas posts so I got backlogged.  But I was too happy with this shower to let it slide by un-blogged. It was actually a “sprinkle” hosted in honor of the second baby of one of [...]

I like to think of the definition of “eating well” as a checklist of wants: local, from a small family-owned business, organic, humane (which means different things depending on the type food), unprocessed, no fake stuff, high quality, etc.  We use these criteria when we can but, as a young couple, cost is still very [...]

You may remember we got a pile of cucumbers not too long ago.  And, while I like raw cukes as much as the next gal, but we got 10 in Week 10!  So, when life gives you cucumbers, make pickles. For those who have never made pickles, the whole thing is rife with decisions. Refrigerator [...]

We have an absolutely fantastic Afghani restaurant nearby called Awe Shack.  My go-to dinner there is the chicken kabob with Kabuli rice, salata and tandoori bread with a cool cilantro-jalapeno-yogurt dipping sauce.  The wait can be pretty long but it makes for great people watching.  We haven’t been there in awhile (and not because I [...]

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 [...]