Yes, many of our lovely lettuces disappear as the weather turns, but that’s when cabbage, carrots and peppers start to shine! This salad is a perfect example of using what’s in season (delicious AND cheap right now!) to make something wonderful. The Thai Quinoa Salad comes from Shalane Flanagan’s Run Read more…
Fall is here, with cooler temps (at least up North), so our steady supply of berries, melons, tomatoes and fragile greens is coming to a close…but that doesn’t mean the end of awesome salads! This time of year produce like cabbage, kale, carrots, squash, apples, beets, broccoli, collard greens, grapes, Read more…
I have friends who seem to live for Fall when they can get their favorite pumpkin spice latte/muffin/pancake/dessert thing. Go ahead and enjoy your orange spice, but did you know that there are delicious, savory pumpkin dishes too? I used to turn my nose up at them too until I Read more…
Right now it seems like almost everything is in season…apples, berries, carrots, beans, greens, peppers, tomatoes, squash, etc. The produce section is a pretty place with some of the lowest prices of the year as farmers are trying to move their bounty into our houses before it’s overripe. But what Read more…
7 people, 1 tent, rain, s’mores, canoeing, mosquitoes, biking and cooking over an open fire…it was memorable! We started our annual camping/canoeing trip several years ago and they’ve gotten much easier because the kids are older and can help out quite a bit at this point. This year, 4 of Read more…
We leave tomorrow for our annual camping trip….5 kids + 2 adults in ONE tent. Hoo-boy…we’re either gonna bond or kill each other! 🙂 It’s one of the kids’ favorite trips of the year….cooking over a fire, riding bikes all afternoon, staying up late to see the stars, canoeing and Read more…
Everyone needs a few no-brainer meals to get through those days when all our brain cells are used up by 3pm. This seasoning is what makes several of my no-brainers work: Recipe: 1 cup Kosher salt, 1/4c black pepper, 1/4c garlic powder, 1/4c onion powder. Shake it up and done! Read more…
We’ve learned to garden through trial and error. Lots of error. 🙂 One of our errors was that we had no idea what real tomatoes tasted like until we picked them straight from the plant for dinner. Amazing!! Since that revelation we’ve grown a ‘tomato forest’ almost every year…literally as Read more…
Forget the mushy things from a can…these are the real thing! Fresh from the bushes and crunchy. CSAs (community supported agriculture), farmer’s markets and produce sections will be full of bags of fresh beans for the next month or so, so enjoy while they’re here. You grew up with your Read more…
Both of those numbers make me cringe, but $652.90 for a family of 4 is considered ‘Thrifty’ by the USDA. That’s a lot of money for something that’s going to disappear by the end of the month! I don’t know about you, but I want to make those dollars stretch…and Read more…