Our Share of the Harvest

Last weekend at my brother-in-law’s graduation party, I had several people ask me if I missed drinking alcohol.  Now, I’m not a lush but I am the kinda girl who will happily drink a signature cocktail at a party, relax by the water or out on the deck with a beer, and thoroughly enjoy a [...]

Like many of you, I utilize the web for all sorts of recipe inspirations–I have dozens of blogs in my reader, I frequent foodie sites like Foodgawker, Tastespotting and Knapkins, I reference Food Network and Epicurious apps on my iPhone and I Google just about any ingredient or recipe idea I’m pondering to shore up [...]

This month’s What’s Baking theme was “Bake with Summer Produce” and I wasn’t even the one who thought it up!  Seriously, this theme that is near and dear to my heart is from Ammie who blogs at Adventures in My Kitchen. What she didn’t know when she picked the theme is that I had 1/2 [...]

When I was a kid, Jello seemed to be EVERYWHERE.  I’d get cups of Jello in my lunch box, Jello Jigglers were featured at every school picnic and birthday parties, my grandma would make Jello salads filled with fruit and topped with whipped cream and, of course, we had Bill Cosby telling us there was [...]

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 [...]