I love my grandparents — yes, I know that everyone loves their grandparents but it is still worth noting.  My husband and I spent our long weekend in South Florida with my grandmother and grandfather (my cousin and his fiance were there, too, which was fun). My grandmother is a great cook and my great-grandmother [...]

Last weekend, we went out to the garden, ripped up what was left of our summer bounty, and started planting for fall. You might have noticed that my summer blog entries often relied on farmers’ market produce rather than beautiful home grown produce from our garden. Well, that’s because we had quite a comical growing [...]

(Photo from princeofpetworth.com) Last weekend, I led a class at the Girard Street Garden on preserving and using summer produce. The garden is run by an amazing DC organization called City Blossoms, who build community urban gardens in DC and Baltimore and then use them to teach gardening and cooking to kids as well as [...]

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 [...]

Delusional from DC heat fever? Inspired by our brand new SC Justice? Whatever the reason, I took the plunge a few weeks ago and signed up to take the LSAT. While the logic games are really charming, the prep class is putting a serious damper on my Eatniks participation. I haven’t been making many gourmet [...]

I’m having dinner tonight with friends and was reminded of the funniest food-related story I have ever heard in my life. That’s not hyperbole. EVER IN MY LIFE. I thought that you deserved to hear it. I was at a baseball game with a friend and her friend… we’ll call her The Chef. The Chef [...]

Another great box this week!  This week’s box had things that we would regularly buy at the grocery store, which is very convenient. Boston lettuce container of cherry tomatoes (my husband loves these tomatoes!) 2 red tomatoes 2 sweet onions 1 huge cucumber 1 green pepper head of cabbage 5 ears of sweet corn

Just one of the important life skills and lasting memories I’ll take away from working on the farm in Costa Rica (lesson #2: don’t put fingers in dark boots) was learning about female anatomy… cow anatomy, that is. Ronald spent a couple mornings gesticulating and explaining enthusiastically about how to milk his precious vacas. It [...]

I know I’ve mentioned this before, but when I have guests in town I love to cook for them. I especially love cooking for them when they knew me back in the day as the-girl-who-couldn’t-even-make-mac n’ cheese. Such was the case this weekend. On Saturday night we decided to stay in and make a big [...]

With bug bites and farmer tans (literally), we triumphantly returned from Costa Rica last Saturday. After trudging through loads of laundry and catching up on some sleep, I’m looking very forward to writing what I hope to be a couple posts about our culinary adventures! First things first. After all, it was an organic chocolate [...]