Our Share of the Harvest

My friend Noelle has introduced me to many things in the 11 years I’ve known her: The Firm workout DVDs, Snood, hair straightening and Ricky Martin are among the things (that can be mentioned publicly) that enrich my life thanks to Noelle.  The most recent life-enhancement she’s brought me is the Bloody Mary.  Whether it’s [...]

One of the keys to CSA success is knowing when and how to preserve your harvest when it starts to exceed your intake.  Knowing “when” is pretty easy–if you’ve still got some of last week’s share sitting in the crisper when you get a bin full of new veggies, it’s time to start preserving.  The [...]

Excess jalapenos that are not long for the compost heap are a nightmare.  Aside from jalapeno poppers or some other iteration of stuffing them and/or breading them with crap that’s bad for you, there’s hardly a way to use them up en masse.  Luckily, when we were in Nashville, we had some of the best [...]

In the first few summers when Greg and I were first dating (yes, the first few–there were many summers of dating), we would visit his parents and had to specifically schedule extra time to stop at the grocery store and pick up peaches.  At that time, the store where he used to be a produce [...]

There is no snack better than salsa.  Except maybe hummus but I haven’t seen any local Maryland chickpeas so we’re going to stick with salsa.  It’s fresh, delicious, super healthy, can be eaten just on chips or used as a topping for almost any meat/soup/carb/veggie.  Maybe best of all, when you make it yourself you [...]