I’m not sure how it happens but every now and again my vegetable bin gets bombarded with carrots. Luckily carrots have a long shelf life and can be used in a wide array of dishes (bolognese, carrot cake, mac and cheese, marinara sauce, etc.) so it doesn’t hurt to have a stash on hand. My [...]
Read more →How do you celebrate the peak of succulent, vibrant fruit and vegetable season here in New England or elsewhere? With big salads, ripe fruit straight from the bowl, quick, heat-minimizing simple preparations? How about eating a peach at work, and it’s so juicy, you realize it’s obscene and you may get fired for lewd behavior? [...]
Read more →Living in an urban environment makes it hard to feel really connected to the food you eat. When I first moved to Boston, I frequented Haymarket, rain, snow, or shine. Haymarket filled a great void for cheap produce in my early years of cooking, but now that I have a little more money to spend, [...]
Read more →Last Thursday I unintentionally made dinner from items that were all purchased at the Brigham Circle Farmer’s Market or picked from my back porch. Of course this would exclude olive oil salt and pepper, maybe some day I will be blessed with an olive grove, salina, and pepper vines (?), but for now those extras [...]
Read more →The Crows That Be have bestowed a login upon yours truly, Mo Tracey. I made a brief guest “caw” over a year ago with a post about recycling, which was really a thinly-disguised attempt to justify the obscene quantity of beer, wine, and liquor vessels that had piled up in my foyer (pronounced the French [...]
Read more →It had been two years since my friend Summer’s last visit to Maine so I was excited to plan some activities for another real “Maine Experience”. Since we are both lovers of seafood my main goal of this trip was to bring her musseling. I doubt that’s the correct term but that’s how we refer [...]
Read more →I had a mission to branch out of my guacamole ways and get a little creative with my recent surplus of avocados. I found a few crafty ways on my own and also stumbled on this article at the perfect time: Beyond Guacamole- 5 Ways to Use Avocados. I seriously felt like the internet was [...]
Read more →Here are a couple meals I whipped up this week when my kitchen energy was running pretty low. These two recipes follow the same theme but when you change the flavor components in the marinade/dressing it doesn’t taste monotonous at all. Grilled Chicken & Rice Salad RICE: I chose brown rice for this salad and [...]
Read more →Last night the JP Crows had plans to make dinner but for some reason we were all feeling uninspired as to what we were going to cook up. The email discussion we had throughout the course of the day ranged from baked pasta to thai- all of which sounded tasty but not good enough to [...]
Read more →Feeling nostalgic for summer yet? I know I am. Tonight I made a winterized version of one of my favorite summer staples: a Caprese Salad. Used delicious roasted beets instead of tomatoes and it was so fresh yummy and satisfying it made me forget the cold for a moment or two. Just wrap up the [...]
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