Caregiving from my kitchen
Sometimes I wonder how anyone ever came to eat rhubarb in the first place. It looks much like celery, but the outside is green to pink to red. (When you cut it, the inside is still green.) You can’t eat the leaves, which are toxic. …
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 …
So, we continue to continue as things have been… The weather is jumping around, and as soon as we opened the window with the stiff hinges and stubborn latch, and put away the comforter, it turned chilly. Perfectly normal weather for April – but we …
Sure you can teach an old dog new tricks – as long as the old dog, or woman, is willing and curious… So I’m still working with the phone – specifically, with the camera. (I seem to have everything else doing pretty much what I …