Quietly, on a frigid winter Wednesday, one of our favorite seasons of the year arrived. I caught a glimpse of its herald as I skidded round our corner and headed toward our driveway. I spy with my nearsighted eye … Honey Bells! The bright green and orange package leaned suavely against our otherwise unadorned front [...]
Tag: food blogging
On wishbones and purple soup
Four days following our attempted consumption of the biggest bird we've ever shoved into our poor little oven, we're still coming up with creative ways to eat the leftovers. We turned the post-Thanksgiving sandwich tradition into competitive gaming, we used leftover bread crumbs and veggies in a Black Friday breakfast bake, we whirled frozen chunks [...]
The Kohl of the Rabi and other things we learned from our CSA
We shamefully dissed a perfectly good vegetable earlier this season and we’d like to apologize. Mea Cupla, Kohlrabi, Mea Maxima Culpa. Fortunately, the Kohlrabi has very thick skin, which, as it turns out, is what led us astray. Sheer laziness and a ridiculous refusal to step out into the cold led me to discover that [...]
An evening of Iron and Wine (A guest post by Katherine)
An anemic since birth, I scored tickets to see the band Iron and Wine, which seemed like the perfect excuse to make an iron rich meal. Unfortunately, my friend Leah who purchased the tickets does not eat red meat, my usual first choice for iron. “Can’t we just focus on the wine part?” she asked. A [...]
A honey crisp afternoon
We made our way through a honey crisp orchard Sunday afternoon and spent the Packer's bye week the best way we knew how, by picking apples. I took my bookends -- 26-year old Charlie, visiting from New York, and 15-year old Molly, thrilled to have a partner in crime. The tree branches sagged with their [...]