Last weekend (before this week completely ate any moment of blogging time) my parents and my in-laws came to visit. Their reason for arriving in the Berkshires was two-fold: Brian was participating in the graduation ceremony for his masters degree and none of our parents had seen our house yet. The weather for graduation day [...]
Last weekend, less than a month after moving into our new house, we held our housewarming party. I’m the type of person that starts planning the party before the closing documents are signed, so clearly I’d been looking forward to it for a long time. We invited more people than was probably sane, so I [...]
As a Massachusetts resident who went to school not far from Boston, this week has been so surreal. It’s incredibly strange to see updates from my friends who live near the city about what they’re experiencing. In light of the incidents there and in Texas, it seems inappropriate to write about my new kitchen or [...]
You may remember that, over 2 years ago (!) I fell in love with Kim O’Donnel’s The Meat Lover’s Meatless Cookbook: Vegetarian Recipes Carnivores Will Devour. Kim’s book inspired me to make tempeh for the first time and I’ve had success with everything I’ve made out of that book. This year for Christmas my sister [...]
This is the first weekend in a long time that I haven’t had a million things going on. It feels so good. After reading blogs, writing and taking care of this week’s grocery shopping, I wasn’t sure I’d ever find the motivation to get off the couch. But I kept thinking about how annoyed I’d [...]
This post was partially born out of necessity. A while back I’d bought a package of egg roll wrappers and, as suggested on the packaging, placed the unused wrappers back in the freezer. The attempts to defrost them later simply didn’t work. So I experimented with making and baking the rolls and freezing them in [...]
On Saturday I had the opportunity to attend my first food swap. I heard about the swap from one of my friends who happened to be a co-organizer. From Scratch Club regularly holds swaps in Troy and Schenectady/Saratoga Springs, but this swap was in the small town of Cambridge, NY. Apparently the bigger events can [...]
This is a very pretty apple galette. It also taught me a very important lesson. Here is the story of the most recent time I set our smoke detector off. Our CSA sometimes has apples, which is awesome, but they don’t always look as good as I’d hope. Brian suggested that we use our most [...]
At this point in the CSA season I’m desperate to do something new and different with the root vegetables we’ve been picking up since November. I am so ready for spring greens. Celery Root, or celeriac, is a strange vegetable, and whose uses aren’t immediately obvious. We’ve had good success with roasting it, but my [...]
In case you hadn’t heard, today is National Clam Chowder Day. If you want to celebrate, may I recommend making this chowder from Healthy.Delicious? I made it last week, because celebrations of things as important as chowder should last more than 1 day. I substituted an extra carrot for the parsnips and used full fat [...]
