Garlic planting season

It’s time to plant the garlic so it has a chance to sprout and root before the cold weather comes. If it ever comes. We’ve hovered in the low 90s for days now, and the humidity has socked me into myself and made me feel like I’m menopausal. Maybe tonight when I get home from [...]

Apple crostate, autumnal pockets of heaven

I forgot to post this recipe! I’m not sure where it comes from, but it’s one my sister wrot e out on a recipe card for me while I was visiting her a couple of years ago. It’s my favorite thing to do with apples, now. These babies came out of the oven and the [...]

I’m really a conspiracy theorist at heart

You all had some interesting thoughts on my last post. I don’t think I was very clear in my writing (as is often the case when I do a first thing in the morning post and don’t sit on it to edit and clarify later). I am in a deeply frustrated place with several things [...]

The view from the road to nowhere

I see a huge vegetable garden on my way to work every day, set in the sunny side yard of an old farm house. I began to track my jealousy in early spring when the vast, rectangular patch of dead weeds got turned under and became a perfect blank slate of soil. All through the [...]

Chard tart with feta and happy blunders

This is a fairly straightforward recipe, but there’s one important step and that’s the step I skipped. When you roll out the dough, you’re going for a nice, even 15 inch circle. Easy enough, right? Except the recipe says to roll it out in between two sheets of wax paper so you can then lift [...]

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