Slow Cooker Everyday Challenge: Days 5 and 7, post...

It was inevitable, really. I had to beg a sick day from the slow cooker challenge. Not a break from slow cooking, mind you, just from posting about it. This “bug” (which is really too diminutive a word for the repulsive, green slimey, lung-flapping viral/bacterial ball it is) has been a real b***. Because misery loves company,  it’s tempting now to go into extreme detail about the progression of chest...

Slow Cooker Everyday Challenge: Day 3, Black Bean ...

I’m going to aim for being a poster child in brevity today. Everything that comes spewing out of my mouth this afternoon seems slurred and clouded, because I am presently exhausted. Our school has felt like a cesspool of bacteria, and I’ve been fighting (and gradually winning, I might add) a severely disadvantaged battle against the crud clogging my head. Disadvantaged because it’s making it practically...

Zucchini Zoo 2: Summer Spaghetti

Turns out, my mammoth zucchini are almost too easy to deal with deliciously. I  can almost say I’ll really miss them, even. If only they didn’t all burgeon up with such alarming suddenness, like a swell of fat swim noodles in a kiddie pool. In any case,  I’ll certainly miss the ease of scavenging the garden for  sweetly sun-ripened dinner components when the season turns, all too soon. It’s hard to...

Zucchini Zoo 1: Quinoa-stuffed

It wasn’t all that long ago, before we began to tentatively dip our toes into the sunlit speckled, buzzing, and bedazzling world of home gardening, I was majorly impressed by mega-sized zucchini. By their staunch appearance, anyway. Like squat vegetable soldiers camouflaged for legions of the shadowy forest. Inside, I noticed, they weren’t such stellar acquisitions, all squishy and airy. Then Sandra, a parent of...

A Radish is Ravishing: Simple Roasted Radishes, Ra...

Today marks the first post documenting official small steps of hopeful progress towards a long-term goal. It was one of my few bold, publicly stated New Year’s resolutions, I would begin to acquire the semblance of budding photography skills, even if my methods remained “simply point and shoot”, and my best shots continued to be taken with an iphone, perhaps, for awhile. I can’t say my...

Sweet Potato and Black Bean Burritos

If we’ve talked this week, you’re probably expecting the amazing ricotta recipes I stumbled on recently, and I promise you they’ll be here soon, and worth the wait. The truth today is, however, I’ve had a head-spinning packed week; it’s been all about looming Boston, just one week away, a couple of hovering deadlines, clusters of birthdays and friends’ good news to acknowledge, and...