Category Archives: Food

I made the rolls again last night.  I was out of cilantro leaves, and they did need them.  I cut back on the hoisin sauce in the dipping sauce, and increased the toasted seasame oil.  The rolls really need the Continue reading Spring Roll Photo→

I think the hardest part of cooking is making the menu.  Last Summer I was organized by what veggies were at the farmer’s market.  I followed MomCo3’s suggestion and looked dishes up in Simply Seasonal Cookbook.  But this winter I’m Continue reading B’s Menu→

     It was so beautiful in the grocery store, what a color,  what a delicate shape.  How pretty the pattern of the four leaves on the end.  It felt like a cross between a tomato and  an apple. The cook Continue reading Tasting an Unripe Persimmon→

I bought these at the Rehoboth farmer’s market from Oakdale farms.  I made them into Thai stir fried eggplant (Cooks Illustrated recipe) with chicken sate (don’t know were I got that one from, a low salt cook book in the Continue reading Fairy Tale Eggplants→

    This is tasty, cheap, nutritious and easy to pull out when you are visited by someone who is avoiding salt and fat, or is vegetarian (or if  you are yourself) bring 3 cups water and 3/4 cups lentils to Continue reading Assyrian Lentil and Bulger Pillaf – from our friend R→

      DH says I never do anything by halves.  We picked 15 lbs of strawberries yesterday, wanting to be sure we had enough for all the great recipes we wanted to try this year: strawberry scones from Cooks Country Continue reading Strawberry Week→

    Mrs W at church is in the hospital with a crushed foot, her car was hit by a delivery truck that was driving on the wrong side of the road.  It’s crushed too.  While she can’t come to church, Continue reading Soufle not Soflat→

    I’ve been intrigued lately by the idea of making up a menu based on what foods are available, not the other way around, as a way of eating more seasonally.       That seems to be a Chinese way of Continue reading Improvisational Menue→