Summer is fleeting, especially here in New England. Even those of you who don’t live here know it’s true. You see us on the weather map in February and marvel at our low temperatures, hanging right in there with South Dakota or occasionally even Canada. We don’t want to hang in there with the frozen… Continue Reading
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Thank You + Fun News
There’s been an awful lot going on here the last few weeks: travel to LA for my father’s birthday, harvesting the last of the tender crops from our garden, drying herbs, pregnancy-watching one of our sows, curing and smoking bacon (interconnected, yes. Apologies to those of you who don’t love the connection). While we were… Continue Reading
As Time and Tomatoes Pass By
Last week, I turned thirty-nine. The day before my birthday, I finished uploading the last of the photographs for the Poor Girl Gourmet cookbook to my publisher, Andrews McMeel‘s ftp, and on my birthday, JR and I made our 2009 maiden voyage to the beach, a disturbing and previously unknown late start – and, I… Continue Reading
Neighborhood Microclimates and a Use for Slightly Larger Than Shallot-sized Onions
Much of gardening theory – and therefore growing theory – is laid out before us in the pages of helpful and sometimes gorgeous gardening books, though, wine nerd that I am, I also find the wisdom of wine growers may be parlayed into the home garden. Smaller yields often result in better quality, keeping an… Continue Reading
Lime Icebox Pie: A Cloves and Cream guest post
My friend Laura of Cloves and Cream wrote this guest post for a quick and tangy pie that just happens to keep with the resourceful Poor Girl Gourmet theme. Coloring inside the lines was never for me. Perched at the sun bleached yellow formica table in my great-grandmother’s kitchen I would scribble wildly, weaving in… Continue Reading