Caregiving from my kitchen
Isn’t that pretty? Why, yes, I do like winter squash… All kinds – this Carnival, and acorn, and butternut, and hubbard, and… We’re having a very strange year. It’s October, and we’re still getting corn and tomatoes. Not that I’m complaining – we …
I had eggplant. Oh, boy, I had eggplant.. So – ratatouille. It’s a classic French dish from Provence, a stew of summer vegetables. Roughly equal amounts of eggplant, zucchini, and tomato, with onion, garlic and basil. Unlike most vegetables dishes, it’s cooked until the vegetables …
Autumn is here! Well – the Autumnal Equinox is actually tomorrow… but close enough. The season has changed… The weather started fluctuating between cool and hot a few weeks ago, but, this week, the warm spell following the cool weather was in the seventies, not …
This was a difficult week for me. A huge cold front came through, which is always hard on my body – especially my head. (Major, major migraine trigger.) So I didn’t write my blog. We were still eating, mind you, and I was still cooking …
We got the cutest little eggplants from the CSA… I don’t normally go all ecstatic over Cute – but really, aren’t these adorable? Delicate, tiny little things, streaked with lavender, almost too pretty to eat. I couldn’t see just simmering them into a sauce, or …