Been doing about what I always do in summer, feeding bunnies and trying to stay cool. We had a bumper crop of garlic and onions, but I lost about 20 tomato plants in the last heat wave, so I’m starting over with that.
We got a huge crop of volunteer sunflowers this year around the compost […]
I’ve been ill for the last few weeks, too tired to do much thinking. Meal plans have gotten us through. If I did not have them planned, I would have begged for take-out almost every evening, I think.So here goes:M–Stuffed baked potatoes wi…
If you’re anything like me, you’re at the beginning of the major growing season and the end of the school season (with all that entails), so you get how busy things are here. Not to mention two of my kids are in band (a year-round endeavor) and they start into the marching band season next […]
Time for our weekly menu again. Actually, past time… Three things shape this week’s plan:1. As I mentioned yesterday, I am trying a gluten-free diet for a few weeks. (I started last week, after I had already written the week’s menu. …
I loved Shauna James Ahern’s book, Gluten-Free Girl: How I Found the Food That Loves Me Back…And How You Can Too. (If you don’t know her blog, make sure you check out her regular posts, too.) I don’t have celiac disease, but I felt an enormous…
The menu plan for the upcoming week’s meals is all inspired by what vegetables are growing in our garden–and, for our non-vegetarian meals, what meat is eager to be defrosted from the freezer.Monday:Radish Greens Soup (from our garden)Brown-bread Toas…
Although I’ve spent most of my life as a seat-of-the-pants cook who loved to invent dinner on the fly out whatever was in season (or in the pantry), I’ve really enjoyed the last few weeks of planning a week’s worth of meals in advance. I’ve over-…
This has been a week full of celebration. My birthday and my son’s birthday fall just two days apart during this beautiful season of azaleas and dogwoods. We both always want the same cake, so we often celebrate with it on the day between o…
Last week, I made an official meal plan for the first time–and loved the relaxed feeling it gave me at 5:30 or 6pm when I carried my laptop into the kitchen and turned on a podcast (often The Splendid Table) while I cut veggies for a meal already thou…
For those of you who had doubts about my article back in 2007, I just came across this: Time, Water Running Out for America’s Biggest Aquifer
“The magnitude of this is incredible,” he continued. “We’re talking about, for the last 20 years, 20 percent of the irrigated acreage of this nation is over the Ogallala.”
For an […]
