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 …
Ah, the cool days of August! Wait – what?? We had a slightly hotter than average July, many days in the 90’s. Several times a storm came through, dropped temperatures by 20° in less than an hour, only for them to rise again three hours …
Slowly, I pick up the pieces. There are still calls to make, jobs to do, but everyday life is coming back. And in the long run, my daily life doesn’t change, it’s just… Every so often something hits me – this morning it was a …
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, …
So I’ve been busy. The newsletter is off the ground, I have some experiments going in the kitchen, I’m working on a new project… Our first CSA pickup was this week! Armloads of leafy greens (both salad and cooking greens,) radishes, snap peas (we ate …