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Tomatoes

On Saturday I got 5 pounds of Roma tomatoes at the Farmers Market. I divided them into the ones I was going to blanch and skin and freeze – the less-perfect ones with a few more blemishes – and the ones I was going to quarter and slow roast in the oven. For dinner, I […]

Defrosting the freezer

Today I emptied everything – bucket after bucket (washed out quart yogurt containers and cottage cheese tubs) of veggie broth and chicken stock and pesto and pie cherries and corn and rhubarb puree, ziploc bags of blueberries and peaches and cranberries, a few hunks of meat – a pork roast – a bag of shrimp, […]

My cat is so smart

Or, at least, one of them is. We have two black & white cats. They’re sisters, or littermates, more correctly, I guess. They have names, Holly & Ivy, like the Rumer Godden story, but one is more black, and the other more white, so naturally, we call them the black one and the white one. […]