Caregiving from my kitchen
In my New York City childhood, Greenmarket had not yet opened. The Italian greengrocers my mother grew up with had closed, the Korean ones that later sprouted all over the city had yet to appear. Our very small local urban grocery store had a produce …
Last week, we received the first corn of the season in our CSA, and this week, the first tomatoes! I sliced the first perfect, beautiful heirloom tomato to eat alone and savor… But we have several plum tomatoes, and a few ears of corn, and …
P Green muffins! Well, that’s what we call them, even if we do risk evoking those ghastly neon-green dyed objects foisted upon the world every year in mid-March… Ours are much better! (And infinitely more useful.)
Isn’t that lovely? It was in my CSA share. When you see broccoli this young, you remember that it is a flower. I was half tempted to tie a ribbon around the stems to make a nosegay!
When I worked in daycare, our playground was surrounded by grass and flower beds – one of those ideas that looked better in the renderings than it did after 100 children had run through the flower bed dividing two sections of the playground… It was …