Posted in Recipes on Mar 30th, 2007
As my last hurrah before I go without leavened, wheaty foods for a week in observance of Passover, I’ll talk about injira. There are a lot of flat breads in the world (my friend Suzanne has an entire cookbook with just flatbread recipes), but injira is special. Injira has a unique tang to it, a [...]
A little PSA for you:
Whole Foods offers weekly podcasts to compliment their Flavors e-newsletter. You can listen to it while you’re cooking up a storm, or while you’re riding home on the metro thinking about what to make for dinner. Or you can read the e-newsletter while you should be working (not that I [...]
Posted in Green living, Recipes on Mar 18th, 2007
On CSAs:
Glory be–I’ve found one! Bull Run Mountain Vegetable Farm, which adheres to organic growing principles and has a DC pick-up location, still has shares.
I like what I’m reading on the website and the email exchange I’ve had with a rep (the grower?). I’m getting a two-person share because it cost just a tad more [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 13th, 2007
I was home for the weekend, looking through childhood memories. I came across some early clues that I’d become entranced with food. Here’s one:
If you can’t tell what this is, it’s Baby Rhea (yes, she was a blond!) crawling around on enormous summer squash set in a pastoral scene with homemade jams.
(Incidentally, this is [...]
Posted in Green living on Mar 8th, 2007
It’s local, it’s fresh, and often it’s organic. How can you say no to community-supported agriculture?
My mom gave me my first CSA experience when I was a kid. We joined the Phillies Bridge Farm CSA, which is right off Route 208 in what uninitiated folks might call the Middle of Nowhere. It’s actually in the [...]
It’s the 6th of March (at least for another hour or so), and I’d like to propose a toast.
To a place with waterfalls and highlife music, cities and tiny villages. To a place that, one day at the stroke of midnight soon after independence from British rule, started driving on the right side of [...]
Posted in Recipes on Mar 4th, 2007
You’ve heard about her. You’ve asked about her. Perhaps you’ve even sampled her.
Somehow, everyone wants her. Is it her stunning appearance, her crisp wit, her slightly tart sense of humor, her ability to get along so famously with lime? What is it that draws revelers to her side? Whatever it is, the Hibiscus Margarita is [...]
