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 [...]
Having made the decision not to visit my family until after Christmas day and thereby giving ourselves our first Christmas celebration with just the two of us, I really wanted to cook something special. Brian put in an early request for his family’s traditional Christmas breakfast of pierogies, kielbasa and scrambled eggs. Knowing that meal [...]
Lately I’ve sort of been in a cooking slump. I don’t know if it was the end of the semester busyness or the holiday season or just plain laziness, but I feel like I haven’t made a “real” meal in weeks. Luckily I finally found some inspiration and spent some time in the kitchen on [...]
I spent most of yesterday waiting for the power to go out, checking the weather forecasts and reading people’s Facebook updates. Predictions were that Sandy was going to be worse than Irene and I was not looking forward to spending hours, or days, in the dark. Not that the dark would be terrible, but I [...]
On September 9th, I ventured to the farmer’s market. My market attendance has gone way down since we started getting produce from our CSA a couple years ago, but I like to stop by occasionally to see if there’s anything I’m not getting from the farm. At this time of year that something is generally [...]
Apparently the first week of school is going to take a bit more out of me than initially expected, despite all my good intentions. Still, I managed to make a pretty decent dinner this evening. Savvy Eat’s Creamy Indian-Spiced Lentils (which is a slow cooker recipe and perfect for school days), vegan flatbread from No [...]
The discovery that August’s grain of the month was rye was certainly a relief. Though I’d never worked with rye flour before, I knew I liked it, I was pretty sure I’d be able to find it and I knew what I could do with it. Much better than driving all over looking for amaranth [...]
One of my projects this summer has been getting to know my popsicle molds. They’re not new and I have an ice cream maker that I also intended to try out this summer, but generally speaking, making ice pops has been far simpler. I started out the summer searching my recipe collection, favorite blogs and [...]
It’s only been a few days, but it appears that my first attempt at canning jam was successful. Here’s a very abbreviated version of how it happened: As you may recall, we picked nearly 10 pints of blueberries last Friday with the intent of making blueberry jam. I used the recipe posted just days before [...]
April break, obviously, provides me with a lot of free time. I decided yesterday that some sort of kitchen mini-project would be a perfectly acceptable way to spend that time and it wasn’t long before I settled on bagels. I have this recipe that Rachel Wilkerson shared a million years ago (also known as 2009) [...]
