It’s hard to believe it’s the end of the year already. Sometimes, I feel lost amid the rapids of life – the work, the emails, our farmers market and real food bank, the everything. Seriously, it seems that everything I do to simplify my life leaves me open to complicate it further. Which is why this [...]
My Favorite Things in December: Hot Springs, Magnesium Oil and Site Updates
December 29, 2011 By Leave a Comment
A Recipe: Sourdough Challah with Poppy Seeds
November 29, 2011 By 2 Comments
Whole wheat sourdough challah, fragrant with olive oil and honey, is a nourishing bread – rich, flavorful and worth the extra effort it takes to lovingly prepare the dough, roll out the strands and intricately braid the loaves. While typically prepared from refined white flour, vegetable oil or margarine and refined white sugar, challah is, [...]
tomatoes provençale & where to find truly good olive oil
August 25, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Tomatoes provençale, a simple dish that highlights the bounty of late summer gardens with its emphasis on fresh tomatoes, finds its way to our table almost daily in August when we buy heirloom tomatoes by the case at our local market. Tomatoes, you see, don’t do well up here at 9,000 feet. So we get [...]
How to Host a Plot-to-plate Supper
June 22, 2011 By 1 Comment
Farm-to-table and plot-to-plate cooking is a culinary phenomenon in its own right and now, after years of writing about the beauty of fresh raw cream, the differences between CAFO beef and grass-fed and imploring readers and friends to take an interest in traditional foods, it’s finally happening. And why shouldn’t it? The food just [...]
mystery veggies in your csa box? what to do with what’s in your box.
June 19, 2011 By 8 Comments
I have a confession: I have no idea what’s in my CSA box this week, and, I’m confident I’m not alone. Sure, I can recognize the sugar snap peas and carrots, the lacinato kale with its pebbled dark green leaves, the baby collards (which we’ll combine with cream and the last of our overwintered shallots [...]
a recipe: staititai [ancient greek sesame & honey pizza]
October 17, 2010 By 1 Comment
Staititai, sweet, tart and perfumed by sweet bay and fragrant olive oil, is, perhaps, the ancient grandfather of modern day pizzas. Soured spelt dough is first fried in olive oil, brushed with even more oil and topped with crumbled ewe’s milk cheese, sesame seeds and honey. The combination of whole grain spelt flour coupled with ewe’s [...]
a recipe: triple beet salad with basil and olive oil
October 4, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Beet salad with fresh basil and olive oil, sweet and fresh and earthy, becomes the center of our supper tables in late summer and early autumn when both beets and basil appear at market in abundance. Farmers sell half-pound bags of fragrant Genovese and Violetta basil for as little as four dollars, and you can [...]
Tomato & Cucumber Salad
August 12, 2010 By 15 Comments
Tomato and cucumber salad, sparkling with the bright flavors of parsley, fresh lemon juice and a subdued and earthy olive oil, finds its way to our supper table several times a week during the height of the tomato season from early August through mid-September. Our family loves the simple combination of some of summer’s best [...]
A Recipe: Minimalist Roast Chicken
July 25, 2010 By 67 Comments
Easy roast chicken, using the most minimal of ingredients and techniques, has found its way into our kitchen more than once in the past month. When time is limited, as it has been for our family lately, nourishing foods become ever more important, and while we strive our best to eat well and to celebrate [...]
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