Veggies with a vengeance

So I was missing my vegetables last week, but are they ever back! Our farm share pickup last week contained 15+ pounds of vegetables! Red Russian kale, tomatoes, lettuce, zucchini, squash, pears, pumpkin and carnival acorn squash, We’ve had a busy cooking week. Here’s what has been on the menu:
Farfalle with creamy kale pesto and [...]

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CSA farm share >Week two

We picked up another big basket of beautiful organic produce from our Misty Meadows Farm CSA Thursday evening. It was more colorful this week — not entirely green. Visit FoodConnect.com to read what we cooked up with our bounty.
I am headed to California until next weekend, so Brian gets to enjoy the rest of the [...]

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I want to travel across oceans. I don’t want my food to.

Grab a cup of coffee. This is long.
Books have long influenced me. Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle caused me to stop eating meat (most of the time) at age 17. A few years later Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation kicked my fast food habit and pushed me over the line to no beef, pork or [...]

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