Last week I bought more vegetables than I needed for meals. And then on Saturday I got my awesome CSA box stuffed with all kinds of fun vegetables. As exciting as all of this was, I was up to my ears in vegetables and I am leaving town on Wednesday. Things would go bad… unless… [...]

Yes!  We’re finally here!  We made it to that place in the summer where my box isn’t filled with only lettuce! I picked up my box and it was heavy.  Heavy! That meant there were ACTUAL veggies in there!  When I opened it up I was pleasantly surprised… no, “thrilled beyond belief” is more accurate. [...]

I started buying turkey cutlets when I saw them on sale. That was really it. I needed meat for dinners and turkey was on sale. When I got home I looked them up to see if they are any different from chicken. What I learned was that they are different from chicken in a few [...]

I look into my CSA box and I see the ingredients like Scrabble tiles. A bunch of individual items that I can either use to add to other existing things or, for maximum points, I can use lots of the ingredients from the box in one dish. I line them up using a triple-point square [...]

Whenever I have guests in town as I did this weekend, I like to cook at least once. In the winter it is easier to prepare something ahead of time to just pop in the oven on Friday night: lasagna, brisket, etc. But in the summer I like light, fresh flavors and, as you know, [...]

This week we got a bit of variety… although still a lot of lettuce.  I’ll take it! Baby lettuce Head lettuce zucchini basil sugar snap peas green onions Glad to have the lettuce, of course, for lunches.  And the zucchini will definitely be grilled.  Any thoughts on how to use the basil in a hot-weather [...]

This week my dinner menus have mostly consisted of whatever I can find in my pantry or fridge. I didn’t plan well when I went grocery shopping, so I’ve been digging around for anything that could make for a relatively interesting meal. So that got me thinking… there are certain things that I keep stocked [...]

I saw this article in the NY Times today about Sriracha, that Asian delicious hot chili sauce that is easily recognizable by the big rooster on the bottle. Coincidentally, I’ve been talking with a friend who recently discovered this red goopy condiment and now puts it on everything he eats. He even got a bottle [...]

Run, don’t walk– strawberry season is in full swing! You might even say on its last legs, as farmers’ market signs warn of the dreaded last week and grocery stores, that’s right, put their strawberries on SALE. I almost grabbed 10 boxes and bolted last weekend when I saw organic strawberries for $2.99 at the [...]

Thanks to an excellent late wedding gift, my husband and I headed up to Philadelphia this weekend to see the Red Sox play the Phillies. Our weekend, like most, was organized around food (and the game… but mostly food). We ate a little bit of everything, ranging from the cheap and greasy to elegant delicacies. [...]