This summer, I’m determined to do plenty of berry-picking. Berry-picking has always seemed like a cornerstone of summer to me, along with the obvious result: jam. I love jam. In particular, I love strawberry-rhubarb jam, which is nearly impossible to find in the supermarket. And so when strawberry season rolled around, I was ready. In…
I have always been one of those girls who is adored by her boyfriends’ (and boy-friends’) mothers. Sometimes it’s been a good thing, and other times it’s been detrimental (might even have caused a guy or two to turn tail and run – I have no idea why, ha ha). There have even been occasions…
Almost every week, my farm share includes some greens. In late spring, it was arugula (lovely and peppery). Later, it was sweet mustard greens. Regardless, coming up with ways to utilize greens (they’re so healthy – filled with all those fabulous antioxidants) in ways other than the Southern-style boiled greens with a splash of vinegar,…
After making last week’s Apple-Rhubarb Galette, I still had a pound of rhubarb and some of those wintered-over apples left. I could, of course, have made a second galette, but the gourmand inside me wanted something different, just for the sake of experimenting. I thought, “the apples and rhubarb combination was so good in a…
I’d forgotten about my liking for rhubarb until last Saturday morning, when I happened upon a stack of gorgeous ruby-pink bunches of it at the farmers’ market. I had no idea what I would do with it, but I couldn’t pass it up, and so bought two pounds – enough for whatever concoction might present…
Since I decided to go to the next level in locavore-ism and join a community-supported farm this summer, I figured the best thing I can do is ramp up my attitude that food is an adventure. There are sure to be all sorts of unfamiliar vegetables in my weekly harvest share. I also figured I…