Caregiving from my kitchen
Behold the humble onion! Workhorse of the kitchen, flavor base of soup and stew, pungent addition to stir fry and salad – but so rarely given a starring role. French Onion Soup, certainly – but people are often distracted by the bread and cheese, and …
You may have noticed that we have been getting tomatoes… Our CSA farm grows many fields of tomatoes, well aware that this is something the Customer Likes. We even got tomatoes the year Blight hit the Northeast badly – by some luck (and some good …
Quickly cook tender, delicious okra whole so that it isn’t slimy! Like many of us, I first encountered okra in gumbo, where the mucilaginous quality contributes to the recipe. (If you don’t use okra, you use gumbo filé to accomplish the same thing, though …
It’s September, and a woman’s thoughts turn toward… soup. I’m not tiring of my summer love, salad. (Better not – I think I have four different heads of lettuce in the crisper!) But we have had a few cool nights, and there is talk of …
