Another heavy box this week! And lettuce free! red melon green pepper sweet pepper mix — about 5 little peppers garlic 4 plum tomatoes 2 red tomatoes (I think one was an heirloom) cucumber yellow squash zucchini 6 ears of corn

Remember I told you about my grandmother? And what a great cook she was? One of her signature items were homemade pickles. I can not explain how much this impressed me as a kid. There was this huge jar on her kitchen counter filled with cucumbers and what, to me, looked like grass and little [...]

In a couple weeks I will be smoking for others for the first time. This is a big step. Other people will eating my smoked food. Other people will be watching me smoke stuff. Other people will know if I have to secretly finish the meat in the oven because I couldn’t keep the heat [...]

I love going to pick up my box only to lift it and find that it is really heavy! Heavy is good! When my boxes were filled with lettuce, the thing was super light. Now I watch others struggle to lift the bag out of the box and place it in their own reusable bags. [...]

Cooking for yourself means making whatever YOU want. Cooking for others on a regular basis can be tough because you can’t always do that. When I lived alone, my dinners usually consisted of something with eggplant. It is easy to stir-fry, saute, grill, roast, bake, you name it. For someone who could just barely make [...]

My mom and I took our annual trip to Rehoboth last weekend. We’ve been going for at least a long weekend during the summer since as long back as I can remember, and by this point we are self-certified beach food aficionados. During the car ride there, we usually plan out the meals for the [...]

This is going to be a very busy week. Tonight was going to be one of the few nights that would actually allow for cooking dinner, but alas, not so much… my dog suddenly had to go to the vet throwing a wrench in everything. (She’s worth it, but still.) For nights like this we [...]

This week’s box was filled with tomatoes! As you may or may not know, tomatoes are my least favorite food. I try and I try to enjoy the flavor that everyone else seems to adore, but I just can’t. I can, however, appreciate that everyone else loves them and I can certainly appreciate how pretty [...]

When people ask me if I’m a vegetarian, I sometimes say yes just to make things easy (Michelle will never let me off the hook for this.) I don’t eat much meat, and when I do I want to know where and how the animal spent its life. Saying I’m vegetarian to prospective hosts guarantees [...]

A few years ago my husband, Mike, went with his Taiwanese friend to an authentic Chinese/Taiwanese restaurant in Rockville. Rockville has a HUGE Chinese/Taiwanese population (Quick note: Taiwanese people identify as being Taiwanese rather than Chinese. They have a strong cultural identity that is different from the Chinese. There has been some confusion with the [...]