A half dozen or so years ago, right around this time of year, over our forty-second consecutive dinner consisting of corn on the cob and some variety of grilled meat, I felt compelled to let JR know how I felt about the impending ingestion of corn for our forty-third consecutive dinner. “Honey, some people in… Continue Reading
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Out in the World
When you spend 13-plus years at any one thing (which happens to a lot of us eventually), it’s difficult at best to imagine doing anything different than that. And when you do, the novelty can be so enthralling, you wish that it would never end. Such is the case for me with book promotion. The… Continue Reading
An Untraditional Bolognese Sauce
Today is the last day for my garden. It’s going to be 28 degrees here overnight, and 20 degrees overnight on Wednesday, so this afternoon, I marched out to what’s left of the garden with scissors in hand and harvested the remainder of the lettuce – which yielded me an entire plastic shopping bag of… Continue Reading
This week in the garden – end of July: tomatoes, eggplant, and blackberries
I’ve been a little remiss about garden updates these last few weeks. With family in town from Los Angeles mid-month, followed by an uncontrollable need to get to Block Island (if you know The Block, you understand), we’ve been on the go, and I’ve been keeping my distance from the computer, which isn’t a bad… Continue Reading
Apply for a Grant – or Help Fund – Whole Kids Foundation’s school salad bars and gardens program
One of the things I love most about gardening and making meals from what we grow is that there are so many variables. I know, I know, who likes more uncertainty, right? But when you grow your own food, you have to understand the cycles of the seasons, the impact of weather (like this year,… Continue Reading