The plum trees have gone crazy. Both the proud peacocky one in the corner (tiny fruit that taste like candy), and the sturdy and reliable pillar of fruit production in the back center (larger, tarter, shaped like a heart). There are plums in every colander and bowl in my kitchen, and there’s nowhere to put anything…
car snack 5 (nut free!), and a reusable lunch giveaway
And like that, the conversation turns from popsicles to lunch boxes. It must be that moment of the summer when it instantly becomes clear that the end is near. Happy ides of August. I took these pictures the other day. The girls put down their comic books and let go of being bored for a…
kumquat ricotta tartine
Again. I start writing on an ordinary day. I put it down with the hope of finishing later, and then in that time in between, the New York Times starts yelling at me from my phone. I check the news, I check Twitter (which on the whole I don’t love, but it’s always where I…
the upside
If you were worried that there wouldn’t be anything to get up and knead and roll and shape in your quiet-morning-everyone-is-sleeping-or-watching-cartoons kitchen, no need. Here you go. We’ve got scones! Way back when the sun shone and we wore T-shirts (Summer, Fall? I can’t remember–all I see now is cold), I did a sauerkraut demonstration…
the black radish
This is a different radish (perhaps the sexiest of them all). Elizabeth at Indian Line Farm grows these every year, and they store so well through the Fall that I find myself talking about them through both the November and December holiday markets. “Sell the black radishes!” She tells me. This is no perky nipple…
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