(This was cross-posted to Humble Garden) (Homemade chevre cheese) We are enjoying our independence from the food chain. We get our eggs and our milk (and now cheese) from our backyard. We eat our salads from our backyard. If you don’t now, what are you waiting for?! If you think food prices are high now,...

(Whole wheat yogurt pancakes with blackstrap molasses) Recently, I have not been able to cook during the week due to going back to work full time. I am very fortunate to have a husband (and more and more these days an older child) who is the main cook. This is good because when I get...

We are just at peak fall color here, mother nature has decided to cool off, the kids are wearing their Halloween costumes all day long, and it feels like fall to me, finally. We were expecting lows of 29 F last night so I had to put row covers over the spinach, bell peppers, beets,...

At the risk of being somewhat repetitive, I am going to talk about another potato recipe today. As you may know, we have been growing all our own vegetables this year. I have been writing about it over at my garden blog Humble Garden. I have learned a whole lot about organic gardening (mostly its...

(Image from USA Pear media library) Its FINALLY starting to cool off to a seasonal fall temperature around here, helping me feel a bit more in-season. The tree colors peaked this weekend, yesterday was psychedelic with the riotous oranges, yellows, and reds of the sugar maples around here. Other than pumpkins and gourds and squashes...

(Dosa stuffed with two onion potatoes. I know its too much but I love that stuffing!) Roll the drums, what you see above is my first ever masala dosa. Sure, its not the size of a small ox but its mine, all mine! I feel so empowered now. I can make my OWN dosa and...

First, I would LOVE to hear from you all how you personalize your ramen! What IS in your ramen? Are you Ramen-Orthodox who likes it plain? Are you a Ramen-Liberal who likes to make it different every time? I am not ashamed to say that there are times when the family just wants a certain...

I find the whole chauvinistic “My BBQ is better than yours” shtick we are treated to on various food TV shows and writing to be artless and crude. Food SHOULD be inclusive and NOT exclusive. Food is not about testosterone-laden showmanship, nationalism, or any of those misplaced concepts. Food should not be for a brag...

To celebrate the summer solstice, I made sunny yellow cornmeal “mush” with blackstrap molasses for breakfast this morning. We are enjoying an overwhelmingly beautiful bright sunny yet not-to-hot day here in central Massachusetts. The garden is soaking up the sun and growing with leaps and bounds, our moods are sunny, and all is right with...

I love dim-sum. I know thats not a terribly original thing to say because its likely that 2/3s of the world’s population loves dim sum. While the lion’s share of that 2/3 live where dim sum started, I am stuck in a dim sum wasteland. In fact, I think that dim sum is more available...