Our Share of the Harvest

Usually I tell a story about how I came to find a recipe or crave a food or what I like about certain ingredients.  But for this recipe the pertinent story is about something that happened after I made this dish and about a specific dislike of an ingredient. I was roasting a pretty big [...]

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 [...]

Here’s one of the realities of farming that I’m sure you can all relate to: sometimes, shit happens.  No, I don’t mean that like some clever joke for manure.  I mean, sometimes crazy stuff goes down and you have to deal with it. Last season, my uncle, like so many other farmers, planted rows of [...]

Two years ago, I took Greg to Pottsville, PA for his birthday.  If you have any idea where or what Pottsville is there is only one explantion–you are a beer fan and have been to the Yuengling Brewery. Because there is really no other reason to go to Pottsville, especially for a birthday. The brewery [...]

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: [...]