It was close to a year ago that I began my experiments with sprouts and have been enjoying the bounty of alfalfa and mung beans ever since. It never occurred to me to venture out and try the same method on other seeds/grains until this past weekend when I came across a recipe for a [...]
Read more →The title of this is silly but it’s an ode to my dear friend Tara who will be moving to France this month. Tara is a vegetarian so she likes to eat taters because they are hearty and filling and when she gets saussy she likes to tate. This past weekend we celebrated New Years [...]
Read more →Broccoli and Potato Soup: guilty pleasure from Panera Bread and Au Bon Pain but one can only imagine what goes into the soup to make it so rich and creamy. My guess is a ton of sodium and fat because it makes everything taste better but if you’re the person making the soup its hard [...]
Read more →It dawned on me that I haven’t made a hearty eggplant dish since last winter so I had a new mission on my hands. I am a fan of the slender Japanese varieties but since I was aiming for hearty I went straight for the honking Italian ones. In an effort to step out [...]
Read more →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 →Check out this amazing article in the NYT style section today on preserving fruit in alcohol rather than canning. The crows do an awful lot of booze-fruit eating in the summertime when we fancy-up our white wines and simple cocktails with a little fruit garnish to be munched on at the end of the drink. [...]
Read more →As the days of farmers markets begin to dwindle i feel so lucky after each visit, hoping that it won’t be my last. Squirreling away the items i think will last the longest such as potato, onions and garlic, dreading for when I will have to pay for them in a check out line. This [...]
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 →If I am blessed with some leisure time on Sunday, meaning that it’s not spent traveling back to the Bean, then I love to make some type of hearty salad to munch on during the work week. Since I did not have ample time on Sunday, my work week prep took place on Monday and [...]
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 [...]
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