L. occasionally refers to the vagaries of my character as my sharing characteristics with people who suffer from OCD. I have always felt...

This Week's CSA box contained: Herbs: a bunch each of sage, lavender, thyme, Mexican mint, flowering tarragon, lemongrass, red shiso, ...

I skipped this week’s CSA box order (gasp!) in favor of checking out my new local farmers’ market. It is that lovely time of the year...

This Week's CSA box contained: Herbs: sage, red shiso, thyme, flowering tarragon and lavender. Greens: curly kale, dandelion greens, a...

This Week's CSA box contained: Herbs: a bunch each of flowering dill, sage, purple shiso, thyme, purslane and celery leaf - also known as...

The above still life with tomatoes shows only 5 of the 7 pounds worth of tomatoes that I received in this week's CSA box. A huge, dense 1...

Our first grocery shop in our new house - after a particularly stressful move, food deliveries and weekly menu planning are back on track...

As far as I am concerned, opening the CSA box on Saturday morning is like a weekly version of Christmas morning. I love the surprises...

Behold the fridge of a girl on a sustainable diet, an image only shared so far with subscribers of my newsletter. Go on, sign up, you...

I didn't feel any of the sentiment expressed above last week and don't plan on it this week either, if my menu goes as expected. My CSA...

Another mixed bag of a weekly menu throwing my usual template to the winds – it is the 4th of July, it is hot as Hades and I am still on...

With my sister turning 60, and my dad in town for her birthday, it has been a week of celebrations, many of them revolving around the...

My dad is in town and my sister is having a big birthday - all of this means lots of dinners and celebrations this week and a short menu...

Happy Memorial Day weekend! We have had sunny days so far so L. and I are discussing using the balcony grill for tomorrow's Eye of Round...

This week's menu was very much built around our CSA box which, to my slight dismay, was mostly comprised of perishable greens - collard,...

While I enjoyed last week’s Rainbow Week theme – fun with creativity, a lot of veggie varieties and more vibrant images on the blog...

No, I did not plan a special menu for Cinco de Mayo and yes, this week's menu is me being particularly whimsical. The stores and farm...

This year's spring is decidedly on the cold, wet and grey side. Rather than wait for April showers to turn into May flowers, my mother,...

Seems appropriate for Easter...We are on the Vineyard for the weekend. Like everywhere else on the East Coast, the weather is gray and...

Between a couple of weeks ago when I let L. pick the menu, last week's many outings, the joys of menopause, and a recently even more...

First weekly menu since the big changes - please stick with me as I get my bearings. A lot of things that used to make blog writing easy...

It is “Redux” meal week. I don't much like to make something that I have made before for a second time. It feels counterintuitive. If I...

It is starting to feel like there is hope for Spring's arrival. We have had a week with clear blue skies and pretty nice weather but it...

A mixed bag of a menu this week; inspiration didn't strike as it usually does and menu planning came down to what vegetables from the CSA...