Mark & Ethan are off looking at colleges, Northeastern & George Washington. Not sure what their Saturday night plans are; tomorrow they’re taking the train from Boston to DC. So I’m on my own. This morning I braved the rain and cold and went to the first farmers’ market; bought some potatoes from Matt – [...]
So it’s been a funny couple of days of cooking. My first winter share CSA box was arriving on Thursday, so I was trying to use up as much as possible from prior boxes. I’ve been trying more dishes for French Fridays with Dorie. I had the fixings for a lovely salad: roasted beets, roasted [...]
It’s been all about using up whatever’s in the fridge, since I got back from Pittsburgh on Sunday. On Sunday, I made a pasta with roasted vegetables, and a plum tart – used up that pack of RP’s pumpkin tortellini, and the leftover salad greens from School Woods birthday, and the bulb part of 2 [...]
… if I didn’t do School Woods, or my other cooking outlets. All last week, and this weekend, I executed various cooking plans, many without sufficient eaters to consume the end results, and one notable flop. Last Monday, I made green bean salad and broccoli casserole. The salad got eaten up, alright, but I never [...]
On Friday, I served up the second in the summer supper series. The theme was roasted vegetables. I roasted summer squash, peppers, and cherry tomatoes (adding, to the tomatoes, lots of garlic, and crumbled oregano dried from a bunch of fresh that came in my CSA box in May or June) and put them on [...]
… And write – and here I am again a once a week blogger. There’re a lot of things I could blame it on, but I’d rather not. Last weekend I sent my foster daughter off to camp, so Saturday we went to Old Navy, and got her packed. I made some beef and peapods [...]
Deborah Madison just did a new book, What We Eat When We Eat Alone. The overall conclusion of the book is that when we eat alone, we don’t have to follow the rules – we can eat what and where we want – standing over the sink, in bed, in front of TV, and we [...]
