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As it turns out, with the kids off at sleepaway camp, and a couple dinners out, I am thinking that I don’t actually need a menu plan this week. Our box from Two Small Farms has a couple things that I will need to eat this week (Little Gem Lett (read full article)
We join a community pool for the summer, and starting today, they light the BBQs and members bring picnics and grillables and enjoy the longer days and late afternoon swims. I am starting to plan my menu around food that easily portable. I bought a (read full article)
Our box this week from Two Small Farms contained Agretti, and if you remember from last year, this is one of my favorites. It is a strange vegetable, but very tasty in a salty, ocean sort of way. And again, I scored more than one bunch, so we get to (read full article)
This week’s CSA box from Two Small Farms contained a very interesting essay about French Tarragon. Apparently, true French Tarragon cannot be started from seed, but by dividing the plant’s roots in the winter. Sounds like a little too mu (read full article)
This weekend, we celebrated a birthday and an anniversary, so there was lots of cooking to keep me busy. The best thing I made this weekend was an Orange Cheesecake with Candied Kumquats (and Blood Oranges) which used up the cute kumquats from our Fr (read full article)
You may have noticed I have not posted anything on Kitchen Gadget Girl for the last few weeks, more about that later. In the meantime, on March 19th, the new season of the Two Small Farms CSA started! I am as excited as I was when I found out Glee wo (read full article)
St. Patrick’s Day is here on Wednesday, and I will be able to indulge my love of corned beef. I am going to follow the Crockpot Corned Beef recipe I used last year, and fingers-crossed, there will be enough leftovers for the next day. Here is t (read full article)
My trip this Sunday to the Farmer’s Market was awesome! Spring has definitely sprung and the variety was overwhelming. Every available stall was filled with a farmer, and I enjoyed just walking through and visiting with some of my favorites. He (read full article)
Hard to tell what the weather is going to be like this week, so I cannot tell if I am going to want comforting soups and stews, or grilled and fresh spring items. Oh well, how about a mix of both with Pancake Night thrown in for good measure. Here is (read full article)
Saturday morning I was so excited by all the new recipes I wanted to try that I went ahead and made my menu plan starting this weekend. I plan to cook 5 days this week, with one day for leftovers and another for takeout (got to love Friday Movie Nigh (read full article)
With friends coming to visit on Tuesday night, a bunch more baking I want to accomplish, and Christmas dinner to plan, I thought a menu plan for the week would be a good idea. I do need to get a shopping list put together, and I will try to fit in a (read full article)
With Thanksgiving only days away, and my in-laws arriving on Tuesday, plus a boat-load of cooking planned between now and then, I am operating on the KISS principal for dinners this week – Keep It Simple, Stupid. One of the dinners I had plann (read full article)
We are getting close to the end of our CSA season with Two Small Farms, which means figuring out where to find my fresh, local, organic produce. Fortunately, we have a few Farmer’s Markets which stay open year-round so I am sure to find good so (read full article)
What is wrong with you people? Don’t you know about Collard Greens? Super high in Vitamins A, C and K, manganese, calcium, potassium, iron, and rich in phytonutrients that are thought to fight off cancer, bacteria and infection? Good stuff, pe (read full article)
I knew this squash was coming, I just didn’t realize how ugly it was going to be! All bumpy and lumpy and twisted. Very strange looking. I cannot wait to open it up and taste the insides. I am sure this is a case of the vegetable kingdom hidin (read full article)
Last week’s menu plan was a little bit of a miss – I got all the way through Wednesday, then we had take-out for the next two nights. Oh, and on Tuesday, we didn’t really have leftovers from Monday (since the kids ate all that!), s (read full article)
A couple weeks ago, we received hot cayenne peppers in our boxes, and if you recall my reply comment to Julie, you will notice that I punted on cooking them. I just did not have it in me to figure out a plan. And this week, I have another chance to (read full article)
This week’s box had a bag of ripe, green tomatillos, a tart relative of the tomato. I have purple and green ones growing in my garden, but unfortunately, things are not so bountiful in the back 40, so I was pleased to see these tomatillos f (read full article)
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