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I had planned to post a delicious way to use up all those CSA greens, but then Erik met a friend for a drink last night and I made myself a post-baby-bedtime cocktail. While sipping said amazing cocktail (and then wanting another), I realized that we never posted our favorite jam recipe. So here it is – blueberry lime jam + blueberry bramble cocktail. It’s also awesome as the filling in a coconut layer cake . . . → Read More: Blueberries for Morning and Night  Comments are closed  Canning/Preserving, For a Party, Recipes  blueberries, cocktail, jam, lime, local food, preserves, Recipe This week, I stumbled into two great examples of how food brings people together. First, we scored some local grains (for free!) from a poster on a Yahoo listserve for local parents. Super! After a short trip and a nice conversation, we are the proud owners of two quarts of local oats and some helpful info on CSAs in the area. Not quite sure what we’re going to do with the oats, but I’m excited . . . → Read More: Building Community Through Food Comments are closed Breakfast, Dark Days, Desserts, Get Involved, Recipes All-Natural Breakfast, allergies, bread, brunch, local flour, local food, pumpkin, squash In the winter, I usually crave hot breakfasts. Oatmeal with applesauce and peanut butter, eggs of all sorts, or pancakes. Recently, I haven’t been eating particularly well, so I’ve been trying to get a little “insurance” at breakfast to make up for the Pad Thai at lunch and burger, fries, and a shake at dinner. Yep. That was yesterday. Smoothies are an easy way to cram more veggies into your day. A little fruit covers . . . → Read More: How to Make a Winter Smoothie with Local Ingredients Comments are closed Avoid the Oven, Dark Days, Fast Meals, Recipes, Vegetarian All-Natural Breakfast, dark leafy greens, how to eat locally, kale, local food, milk, peaches, pumpkin, Recipe, Root Vegetables, smoothie, spinach, squash, yogurt Happy New Year! For us, New Year’s Eve is an excuse to host a dinner party, so we invited our closest friends over and had a low key evening. We started with homemade French bread (recipe to come) with local butter and quick-pickled radishes. Then we had braised pork belly with turnips and an arugula-parsley salad. For dessert, Erik fried Twinkies. Yeah, we had fried Twinkies after such a homemade old-school meal. They were . . . → Read More: What to do with a half-drunk bottle of Champagne? Comments are closed Desserts, Recipes, Waste Not, Want Not champagne, how to, leftovers, local food, sorbet, vinegar My brother was in a band in high school called The Unmundane. They were pretty good and had a nice little following. I have a couple of their CDs and a t-shirt I wear running. I also have the word “unmundane” in my vocabulary now. It snuck in there at a time in my life when I used either “random” or “sketchy” to describe just about everything. I probably also used “wicked” a . . . → Read More: Unmundane Lentil Soup 7 comments - (Comments are closed) Avoid the Oven, Dark Days, Soups and Stews lentils, local food, slow cooker, soup |
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