A slightly disjointed menu preview this week... Some people are incurable romantics or optimists, I happen to be an incurable insomniac...

Sunrise comes much later these days and morning bird song has diminished to near complete matinal silence though birds are still visiting...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Hard to believe that it is already August. Though we are not particularly social people to begin with, this summer has been even less...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...