Caregiving from my kitchen
One of the reasons that I have always been comfortable with cooking most things from scratch is that my mother always did so. Our cooking styles are quite different – as I’ve said, I grew up eating frozen vegetables, largely because there simply was no …
As you may have noticed, our CSA gave us many, many cucumbers. I’ve made salads, I’ve made soup, I’ve filled a quart jar with refrigerator pickles, and I still had cucumbers…
As I have mentioned, I grew up here in New York City, and have lived in or near the city all my life. So I have bought many a meal at many a delicatessen.
We got big, lovely bunches of collard greens from the CSA both last week and this. I find collards a bit tougher than other leafy greens, and I don’t like them cooked the way I cook other greens. I have found, though, that these do well …
