Our Share of the Harvest

I’ve been to several management classes/seminars that have preached about the Golden Triangle–this balance that hangs between Quality, Time and Cost.  Basically, one of them has to give for the other two to be optimal.  In my cooking life, I usually try to optimize Quality and Cost at the expense of Time–I pick my own [...]

I menu plan based on what we have in the CSA and what we have in the house.  From there, we grocery shop and supplement with after-work trips to the store as needed.  I only plan 4-5 meals in advance so as we run through them, we have more and more conversations like this: Me: [...]

Here I thought we’d be sick and tired of greens but it’s actually gotten to be fun to see how creative we can be.  I’ve learned that lettuce and dressing is just about the worst salad you can possibly have; even if you are positively in love with your chosen salad dressing, it can be [...]

On Sunday, between the tragic comedy that was our strawberry hunt on Sunday morning (farms not open, trip to farmers’ market blocked and detoured by marathons and various festivals–only to leave the market empty handed, and no fruit at another farm) and a trek out to my hometown for a meeting, we managed to kill [...]