Back in September, 2002 there was a recipe for Chicken and Bulgur Salad with Avocado Food & Wine that I decided to try because I happened to have a bottle of the recommended wine pairing (a 2001 Lindemans Padthaway chardonnay) on hand. This is the first and only time to date that I’ve flipped [...]
Last week I didn’t bother writing about our farm haul because it was more of the early-season same: buckets of strawberries and a bunch of heads of lettuce. This week, though, a bit more variety is creeping into things. As I walked out of the farm stand with my arms straining under the [...]
Even though it’s not technically summer yet, it’s feeling full-on summery these days. It’s hot and humid, and we’re all feeling pretty damn lazy.
The living? Is easy.
So this week I decided the best thing to do with my six quarts of borderline overripe strawberries was to make ice cream. I used the [...]
So this week we had a terrible convergence: a staggering, late-August-esque heat wave (temperatures up near 100, humidity right up there with it) and the bulk of the strawberry crop at the farm. So yesterday Boomer and I went out to pick six quarts of strawberries, and ended up with a gazillion berries that [...]
Huzzah!
After about a month of cold and rain, the sun finally came out, just in time to ripen up the strawberries at the farm. This week’s PYO haul? Three quarts!
Unlike last week, where it took an hour to find just four berries, this week all I had to do was put my basket [...]
Finally, at long last, after what seemed like a cold, rainy, interminable Spring, the Farm Season has begun!
Yesterday was my first pick-up day of my sixth season of membership at Honeybrook Organic Farm. Looking back, it’s sort of crazy how we ended up with our membership for the 2003 growing season; we’d moved back [...]
Many people scoff at my farm membership when they hear things like, “This week was awesome! We got 28 pounds of tomatoes!” Well, those people have never known the joys of homemade tomato sauce coming out of the dead-body freezer on a dark wintry day. The sauce and paste tomatoes from my [...]
Last night was Pookie’s late night at the library, which means I have to have dinner ready at 10:00 instead of our standard 7:00. The most difficult part of this is having the get-up-and-go, after an evening of IMing with her, to actually cook something. Normally I make things like “linguini fini tossed [...]
Chili
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Considering the vast quantities of chili powder I like to make, it should come as no surprise that I make vast quantities of chili. This is IPB Manor’s weekly standard, in part because it’s delicious and uses up a lot of [...]
BLTs
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Tonight’s dinner was an orgy of freshness, and we were able to pretend it was mostly free because the majority of the components came from the farm. I made a warm potato salad with the farm’s red blisses and a mustard, [...]
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