The subtitle for this post should be: The World’s Longest Post Ever About a Slice of Bread. I’m just sayin’. You may wonder – aloud, even – how a self-proclaimed poor girl could afford to take vacation to Italy. And that curiosity is well-founded. After three years without a vacation, and a major birthday for… Continue Reading
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Chouriço and Potato Hash
“You have to go to the potato store yourself,” JR insisted, with me standing, petulant, in the kitchen, chouriço and onion all chopped up and ready to go. “Why? Why can’t you? I mean, you’re right there,” I whined back. And he was. In the living room, glancing back at me over the island separating… Continue Reading
Honey Bees Pooh Bear-style
Two weeks ago, JR and I schlepped down the formerly-closed-by-flood-waters Rhode Island leg of Route 95 to our beeman’s house in Warwick, RI. Not just a beekeeper, this particular beeman is also the supplier of new bee colonies to quite a number of beekeepers in the Northeast. Over the course of two winters, we had… Continue Reading
Red and White Onions from the Garden
We’ve started cleaning the garden up for winter. Where once there was zucchini and summer squash, tomato plants, and okra and onions, now there is overturned soil, a clean slate upon which to begin again in the spring once compost is worked back in. This season saw a lot of onions jammed into random spots… Continue Reading
Scrambled Eggs with Edible Flowers
It’s been a busy spring and early summer here. A new flock of chicks arrived mid-May, just in time for JR to be injured at work (again, though this time less seriously than his car accident, thank goodness, however, he is quite lucky to still have his index and middle fingers on his right hand).… Continue Reading