My goal these days is to eat as much salad as possible. This is in part because our backyard garden is bursting with lettuce, kale, spinach, and more, but also because we joined a CSA and they have lots of leafy greens too! However,there’s also the reason that I want to stock up on the […]
This post was originally written for Bailey’s Local Foods. I’m very new to the world of fermentation, especially when it comes to foods. I didn’t grow up eating sauerkraut and still find it a bit odd. However, the first time I had kimchi I knew I’d have to learn how to make it (because I’m […]
If you read this blog with some regularity you may have noticed that there was no meal plan posted last week. Some weeks life just gets too busy to plan. It’s not quite true that we didn’t make any plan, but what we had was a list of possible recipes, without any formal designation as […]
For several years I was a vegetarian*. Because those years were very formative years for me as a cook I have continued to prepare mostly vegetarian meals since my return to occasionally eating meat. In my view veggie burgers do not replace meat burgers. They are simply a different food, probably owing more to falafel […]
Things are getting better–I mean in terms of the arrival of summer. It was a long winter and spring has been quite full of cold, windy, dreary days (like winter in Atlanta…). Today however is beautiful! We went as a family to the Kitchener Market and found lots of wonderful things to add to our […]
June 3-9 These days the menu features lots of green items. It’s wonderful. It also would seem that there is some debate on the internet (and maybe beyond) as to whether it’s healthier to eat leafy greens raw or cooked. Since my 3-minute internet research session was inconclusive I’ll stick to just not worrying about […]
May 6-12 Spring is beginning to arrive at the market and that is good. It also is beginning to arrive in my backyard where I’ve been able to harvest small amounts of leaves from various young plants—dandelions, mustard, spinach, kale, and lettuce. So this is good. However, asparagus hasn’t come yet (Friday we will get […]