Caregiving from my kitchen
Super Simple Cucumber Salad is perfect for the hot, hazy, lazy days of summer! I like recipes that don’t need much of my time, but sit and simmer, or marinate, or set on their own. I particularly like them if those processes don’t need to …
It’s salad season! Red leaf lettuce, arugula, romaine, spinach – I have a crisper drawer full of leafy greens, and we feast on them! But – around here, we do not yet have most of the other vegetables we generally put in salads. No peppers, …
When I shopped at Greenmarket last week, I did not limit myself to fiddleheads, even if they were my most exciting purchase. The market brimmed over with spring greens! Spinach, of course – sauteed with eggs for lunch the other day. Meltingly tender Swiss chard. …
Looking at older posts, I notice that I’ve spend much of the last few months saying, again and again, “But in the Northeast, we don’t…” Here in the Northeast, nothing grows in February. Our Fall harvest is plentiful, but then abruptly over. We only get …
Somehow that title sounds as if it should be the name of a really bad pseudo-Asian martial arts movie… Anyhow – the inspiration. A short while ago, Inhabited Kitchen had a sudden, unexpected surge of visitors from Buzzfeed. I was somewhat flattered to discover that …