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Restaurant food in Annapolis was good. I only ate out once a day, otherwise subsisting on Luna bars and motel buffet yogurt, but when I did, I enjoyed it! The dish shown above was Parmesan encrusted salmon on green bean risotto with roasted red pepper sauce and pesto garnish. Below, were two night’s worth (at … Read more
By way of an update on our peach tree – I mentioned that we had lots, and I wasn’t exaggerating – the tree was so burdened with peaches that the largest branch of them actually broke off under the weight and came crashing down! This cobbler is the first thing we made with our … Read more
What to do with all this cabbage? We like this casserole recipe by Mollie Katzen from her revised edition of the Moosewood Cookbook. Mollie calls it Macaroni & Cheese Lite (page 126), but if you are thinking it will be Mac & Cheese, you will be sorely disappointed for it it is mostly veggies, especially … Read more
I took these photos this morning at our Farmer’s Market here in town. It is a true feast for the eyes and a wonderful place for friendly community spirit. In the last six pictures you can see what we brought home, that is, besides happiness, sunshine, and light hearts.
Our peaches are starting to ripen! There are a lot of them, although a little spotted… Not bad for the third year. Last year we had only a couple but they were delicious. Now we just have to compete with the squirrels for them, but we took precautions this year…
I saw this movie on opening night here, as we had been anticipating it for a while. I had read the book by Julia Powell, Julie & Julia, describing her year long blogging adventure of cooking all of the recipe’s in Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking. My friend had read Julia Child’s … Read more
We’ve recently gotten a lot of fresh garlic from our shared harvest program. In the past, one of the things I’ve done with garlic is make a great roasted garlic vinaigrette where you roast the garlic in the skins and they just pop out afterwards. But I was not inclined to do that with these … Read more
This is a great movie which I would strongly encourage everyone to see. I give it five stars. Not only is there important information shared but a real need for individual action afterwards on the part of the audience to remedy the situation. Consumers, like all of us, are the ones that will have to … Read more
I am a major fan of farmer’s markets. Not only does local food taste better because it is more fresh and in season, but what I buy is responsibly grown and often organic. Food in this country is 50% of our national carbon foot print. Whenever we can buy local organic produce we are doing … Read more
This is a delicious, easy salad that is great right out of the refrigerator. I made it with beans from our shared harvest program that you can see in the picture below. Half of them were green and half a purplish black so I was very surprised to find them all green after steaming! … Read more
Summer and the living is easy… and the food is good! I’ve taken some photos of our recent lunches. Yum! Enjoy…
My husband and I like these. They pack a punch of meatless protein and are delicious and satisfying. I got the recipe from the South Beach Taste of Summer Cookbook. See the photo below if you are unfamiliar with buying tempeh; you can see what the package looks like. (It is pretty generally available; … Read more
I’m just enough of a foodie that I couldn’t resist showing you these photos of a great gourmet grocery on Montague Street in Brooklyn, between the Brooklyn Bridge and Brooklyn Borough Hall. Stores like these are one of the many pleasures of the city. What did I buy? A bag of plump, juicy Mount Rainier … Read more
Garlic Scapes are the flower shoots of the garlic bulb and farmers cut them off to encourage the bulb to grow plumper. I first bought local “scapes” from the Farmer’s Market in the last couple years, and this year my CSA is over run with them. To eat up the scapes we’re getting weekly, we’ll … Read more
We have made these literally hundreds of times. They are a particular favorite of my senior in High School that graduates tomorrow, but we all like them. Sometimes I think you can tell how good a recipe is by how dirty and worn the recipe cards is. To give you this recipe I took … Read more
We are fortunate to be part of a shared harvest at a local educational farm and weekly get a box of vegetables and fruit. This week our box included kale, which I have not found a way to care for yet as a sautéed lump on my plate(!), and tatsoi, which is also known … Read more
