FOOD ON THE FOOD

Peek in My Drawers

Crisper drawers, that is. So you can see what I got in my farmshare this week: 2 heads of lettuce a bunch of basil and dill 4 peppers 4 cucumbers 12 ears of corn 4 eggplants a bunch of beets...

Tastes Like Chicken

The Toddler has developed his own code names for the two farms we frequent most. Drumlin is the “Owl Farm,” for its rehabilitated birds on display that the Toddler is so fond of. Codman is known as th...

Vacation in a Nutshell

We had a really great time last week. This is actually the second year we’ve had a good vacation, so I think the karmic debt owed to us after the Great Vacation Disaster of 2006 has been settled at lo...

Things I Learned While on Vacation

Life goes on without the Internet. Seems impossible, but it’s true. I swear I knew this prior to 2006, and yet, since then, the Internet has succeeded in luring me in with its promises of instant erec...

The Kitchen is Not Done

But that’s not going to stop me from going on vacation tomorrow. On the contrary, I can’t wait to get the hell out of here. My deadline for finishing the kitchen was today, and the only thing I succee...

Misunderstanding Michael Pollan: The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Chapter 6

It feels odd and somewhat wrong to be talking about surplus corn when half the state of Iowa was recently underwater. But the fact is that the whole first section of this book was rooted in surplus co...

Bok Choy: Suggestions Welcome

Bok choy is to my Summer CSA as squash was to my Winter CSA. Not necessarily in terms of outrageous quantities (though that remains to be seen), but in how much I look forward to seeing it. Of all the...

Cake for Girls

That’s what my dad would call this rhubarb cake. Girly. Suitable only for tea parties and baby showers. Nothing a real man would eat. And that’s why there shan’t be any left when he arrives.

A Pesto Poem

garlic scapes, of any amount, roughly chopped a bunch of basil, stems removed, leaves fragrant a handful of walnuts or pine nuts or such quite a bit of grated Parmesan cheese a sensible amount of salt...

For Dessert

It was hard to justify doing anything to these cherries besides eating them out of hand, but it seemed even sillier not to make the dessert that inspired the whole trip in the first place. Stupid’s mo...