I’ve had a couple days to rewind my September and October in Maine. My two month stay at Super Chilly Farm — a homestead and genetic bank for apple diversity…
For the last two months I’ve been collecting eggs from (very vocal) chickens roosting up the road, and harvesting baskets of veggies from the gardens surrounding my house. With these…
I want to take a minute to give my childhood chum, Priya (writer for the deliciously delightful “muffins on sunday” blog) a mongo-mega-super-dooper thank you! She not only came up…
Tomorrow I jet eastbound to southern Maine (Irene, permitting)! The following morning I’ll don my faded farming pants and begin a short term apprenticeship on an heirloom apple orchard/homestead. I’ll…
It’s Friday and it’s pizza night! While five-minute-pizza dough most certainly has its merits, if you have a hankering a gluten-free pizza alternative, grind up some beans (or buy ‘um ground) and…
Being a native Tucsonan, I’m not the kind to get sappy or nostalgic over summertimes. I’ve bolted out of the desert each June and July since high school, fleeing to…
Some of you may already carol the merits of the two primary ingredients in this drink. But if you’re not a member of camp-ginger or camp-lemon—if, let’s say, the title…
I’m big on shmears. I like whizzing black beans around in a food processor and adding cumin and cilantro, or pulverizing garbanzos with the predictable hit of lemon and garlic,…
I normally crow that it’s “positively criminal!” to cook tomatoes before July. In fact, I usually eat them only out of hand for the first three or four weeks of…
When it comes to grab-and-go snacks, I’m positively addicted to salted peanuts & brazil nuts plus a few banana chips. But after overdosing on a shockingly large freezer bag of…
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