Caregiving from my kitchen
It’s here! Spring has (finally) arrived! It’s been unseasonably cold, then unseasonably warm, then chilly, then downright hot… and now we’re going in to Memorial Day Weekend at 60° – the farmers must be going crazy, and I hate to think how this is confusing …
It is the week after Easter. Leftover ham is not nearly as ubiquitous this week as leftover turkey is the last week of November… First of all, of course, many people simply don’t celebrate Easter at all. And for those of us who do, while …
Well… more carrots… and frozen vegetables. Green beans, in fact. Trader Joe’s down the street sells French beans – long and thin, and uncut – and they are much better quality and a better price than the frozen beans available in the local grocery store. …
It is mid March – so we are surrounded by green. Green grass, green flower shoots – but also, for St. Patrick’s Day, green mint pies and green pancakes, and, so help me, green bagels… I thought it would be a nice change to give …
As I said a couple of weeks ago, one sign that I, at least, think Spring is approaching is that I’m starting to want salads. But it is March in New York – and it has been a cold one, with lots of snow… (Warming …