Green Salad with Roasted Squash, Apple, and Grapes

Green Salad with Roasted Squash, Apple, and Grapes

My friend Aimee from Small Eats recently posed a question about food phases. She was talking specifically about her Thai food phase, having posted a photo on Instagram of Meatless Kabocha Curry (the recipe for which is on her site, btw). This whole mention of food phases started me thinking. Aside from a year orContinue Reading

Thank You + Fun News

Thank You + Fun News

There’s been an awful lot going on here the last few weeks: travel to LA for my father’s birthday, harvesting the last of the tender crops from our garden, drying herbs, pregnancy-watching one of our sows, curing and smoking bacon (interconnected, yes. Apologies to those of you who don’t love the connection). While we wereContinue Reading

The Honey Harvest

The Honey Harvest

We had just one hive this year, but the bees did pretty well, and we’re up to our ears in honey. Yet I’m pretty sure it’s still not enough. One can never have too much honey. JR pulled the frames containing the honey from the hive and hightailed it to the barn, where we harvestedContinue Reading

Linguine with Fennel and Kale + a Dreamfields giveaway

Linguine with Fennel and Kale + a Dreamfields giveaway

This giveaway is now closed. Congratulations to Janet Faye who won the selection of seven Dreamfields pasta cuts and a $25 gift card! Thank you to everyone who entered – it was fun to read all of your favorite pasta dishes! Coming from a family whose nearly every meal felt the very strong influence ofContinue Reading

This Week in the Garden: early October

This Week in the Garden: early October

Or, as I call it, the sad time. I get it, I get it. People love autumn. It’s pretty, there’s no humidity (or at least less frequent bouts), and the sky is always a brilliant blue, the grass – whether watered or not – returns to a lush, emerald green. But the garden is coughingContinue Reading