My Summer of Tomatoes is going very well.  I love them.  That’s weird, I know.  To clarify, I love the good ones.  The bad ones are dead to me.  This week we got these adorable baby heirloom tomatoes from the CSA.  They were all different colors and some were shaped sort of like bowling pins.  [...]

I remember when I started really getting into cooking that I would either crave an ingredient or have the urge to try a particular technique.  I wanted to braise something so I would search for recipes and go buy the necessary ingredients.  I wanted to try cooking with coconut milk so I would find a [...]

I’m sorry for not posting on my CSA boxes over the past few weeks. Things have been pretty hectic.  But that’s no excuse.  Anyway, I’m back! My boxes have been great lately — overflowing with fabulous veggies!  Ok, not overflowing but close.  This week was my first lettuce-free box of the year!  Woohoo! – Cucumbers [...]

Welcome to guest blogger, Steve Ziegler.  While this post is all in good fun, he is quite serious about this sandwich.  You’ll see… Steve Ziegler has been in the restaurant supply business for over 20 years and is an avid home cook. He is the Product Expert at the WEBstaurantStore.com, which is the Web’s largest [...]

Two years ago this month Mike and I went on our honeymoon to Greece.  We spent some time in Santorini and in Athens, but the highlight of our trip was our time in Crete.  The scenery, the history, the food… oh, the food.  We ate moussaka that was great and of course we ate gyro [...]

It is no secret that I love to grill.  Anything that I can grill gets grilled.  Why not tomatoes for a quick fabulous sauce?  Why haven’t I done this before? In my CSA box this week I got one beautiful deep red tomato; it was such an incredible color that I picked up a couple [...]

Oh what a week.  I was away for work for the early part of the week leaving my husband to deal with the CSA box.  While it was easy for him to pick it up and put it all away, starting to make his way through the veggies on his own wasn’t so easy.  I [...]

Last month I posted a recipe for granola bars. They tasted great!  I tried them right out of the fridge and they were terrific.  Then I took one to work for lunch.  By the time I got to it, it was so soft I couldn’t pick it up.  I ate my granola bar with a [...]

After three years in our wonderful Takoma apartment, my roommate and I will be moving out in just over a month. I’ve experimented a ton in our little kitchen and feel so much more confident and adventurous in my cooking than when we moved in after 4 years of college living. My cooking endeavors are [...]

This was one of those weeks, ya’ll.  A busy, tired week.  I was out one night, Mike was out another night.  Not how I wanted to kick off my second CSA season.  I had high hopes for the ingredients in my box this week!  I did use them all, but I didn’t have the time [...]