One woman's quest to buy local and eat healthy.
Posted in Cooking, Focus on local, Markets on Jul 7th, 2010
Cherry season is here and I’m using cherries in a variety of ways, although I have to admit that sorbets and ice creams are the easiest and most fun.
What’s great about working at the farmers market is that folks have so many different ways they use cherries, just eating them right out of the container [...]
Warm weather = tasty, cool margaritas.
During the early part of the summer I don’t settle for any margarita — I prefer one made with my strawberry-infused tequila.
Nothing could be easier, really.
The real key is good strawberries — the ones you buy in the store will work but won’t be quite as good as what you [...]
Posted in Cooking, Focus on local on Mar 16th, 2010
I grew up eating a comforting chicken dinner most Sundays. I remember asking my mom, “What’s for dinner?” and frequently hearing, “Chicken.” “Oh,” would usually be my response. Now, as a grownup (a relative term) I’m finding there’s more to just sticking a chicken in the oven with a couple of potatoes. Cooking chicken is [...]
Posted in Cooking on Feb 13th, 2010
It doesn’t matter how you slice it – summer tomatoes are divine and I eat salads daily, loaded with a variety of colors and types. Yum. But tomatoes also are great in the winter, coming out of the freezer for pasta sauce, salsa, chili or soup on a snowy winter day.
Before tomato supplies start dwindling [...]
Posted in Cooking on Feb 11th, 2010
This is definitely the winter of our discontent in the Washington, D.C.-Baltimore area – discontent in this case meaning a restless desire or craving for something one does not have – green grass and a sunny 75 degrees.
While mountains of plowed snow dominate the landscape – it’s a challenge to find good winter produce, never [...]