Menu: Week of 09/20/20
A slightly disjointed menu preview this week... Some people are incurable romantics or optimists, I happen to be an incurable insomniac...
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Sep 13, 2020
Menu: Week of 09/13/20
Sunrise comes much later these days and morning bird song has diminished to near complete matinal silence though birds are still visiting...
Sep 5, 2020
Menu: Week of 09/06/20
Mea culpa, mea culpa. Much as I am enjoying my Cape Cod bubble and the transitory illusion that the real world and all of its issues are...
Aug 29, 2020
Menu: Week of 08/30/20
I have been having problems with loading posts to my blog for the past few days -- problems as in, I can't at all -- and the frustration...
Aug 23, 2020
Week of 08/23/20
This morning I was woken up by wild turkeys gobbling outside my window and by the damn cat digging his claws into to my inner thigh as...
Aug 16, 2020
Week of 08/16/20
I am in the midst of what I can only describe as a funk of nostalgia. Today marks the last day of O-bon, the annual Buddhist tradition of...
Aug 9, 2020
Week of 08/09/20
One of my friends from college has been visiting and, while we have been having a lovely time taking long walks and enjoying the natural...
Aug 2, 2020
Week of 08/02/20
Hard to believe that it is already August. Though we are not particularly social people to begin with, this summer has been even less...
Jul 26, 2020
Week of 07/26/20
I have gone from feeling slightly smug about the lovely weather that we have been having here to joining the rest of the nation in...
Jul 19, 2020
Menu: Week of 07/19/20
Less wildlife talk this week. And more hydrangeas. I can't help it, I know that I keep on posting pictures of them. It is just that I...
Jul 12, 2020
Menu: Week of 7/12/20
Yet another long missive from the Cape. At some point I may stop waxing euphoric about nature, but not quite yet. For those of you less...
Jul 5, 2020
Menu: Week of 07/05/20
A lengthy intro to this week’s menu. First, apologies for the broken link in last week’s email. One of the downsides to being woken up by...
Jun 28, 2020
Menu: Week of 6/28/20
Despite my promise of bonus recipes last week due to L.’s dad’s visit, he and L. mainly indulged in fancy takeout so there actually...
Jun 21, 2020
Menu: Week of 06/21/20
Last week those of us who live in New York started to emerge slowly from lockdown, a bit like sleepy bears after hibernation or, not to...
Sep 21, 2019
Menu: Week of 09/22/19
L. occasionally refers to the vagaries of my character as my sharing characteristics with people who suffer from OCD. I have always felt...
Sep 14, 2019
Menu: Week of 09/15/19
This Week's CSA box contained: Herbs: a bunch each of sage, lavender, thyme, Mexican mint, flowering tarragon, lemongrass, red shiso, ...
Sep 7, 2019
Menu: Week of 09/08/19
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...
Sep 1, 2019
Menu: Week of 09/01/19
This Week's CSA box contained: Herbs: sage, red shiso, thyme, flowering tarragon and lavender. Greens: curly kale, dandelion greens, a...
Aug 25, 2019
Menu: Week of 08/25/19
This Week's CSA box contained: Herbs: a bunch each of flowering dill, sage, purple shiso, thyme, purslane and celery leaf - also known as...
Aug 18, 2019
Menu: Week of 08/18/19
Last week was a slow week for posting - mea culpa: we were away for a few days, I cooked dishes that I had made before and the few new...
Aug 11, 2019
Menu: Week of 08/11/19
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...
Aug 4, 2019
Menu: Week of 08/03/19
Our first grocery shop in our new house - after a particularly stressful move, food deliveries and weekly menu planning are back on track...
Jul 20, 2019
Menu: Week of 07/21/19
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...
Jul 14, 2019
Menu: Week of 07/14/19
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...
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