Garden 2.0
We’ve been enjoying a streak of above-normal temperatures for the past week, and today seemed like a good day to work on getting the garden ready for planting. We learned a few things from last year’s...
View ArticleTuna Puttanesca
We stopped at the fish market on the way home tonight and bought two beautiful tuna steaks, ruby red and about an inch thick. They’re gorgeous. I’m going to pan-sear them (rub with a small amount of...
View ArticleGarden Update 2010
This weekend was garden weekend, but we got totally sidelined by the weather. Saturday was actually pretty nice, although it started out rainy. It eventually cleared, and we headed out to Home Depot...
View ArticleGarden Update & Other Stuff
This past weekend blessed us with absolutely glorious weather, and I spent most of Saturday planting stuff. First up: setting up the two new Earthboxes for the tomato plants. That was actually more...
View ArticleA Week Away From the Garden
We returned yesterday from our annual jaunt out to Martha’s Vineyard. Although we were only gone for a week, a week of warm temps and sunshine can really bring about big changes in a garden, and I was...
View ArticleFourth of July Garden Update
I’ve not been particularly good about updating, not for a lack of things to write about, unfortunately. Finding the time has been a challenge, so here’s to a little writerly discipline. In spite of...
View ArticleSteamed Mussels
Yesterday we were pondering what we might like to eat over the weekend, and Jim requested steamed mussels for this evening, one of his favorite dishes. I love them too, not just because they’re good...
View ArticleThe Midsummer Garden
At long last, the yellow squash seems to be coming to an end. I don’t know if this is part of the normal squash life cycle or if the plants are being bothered by something, but in any case we’ve had...
View ArticleThe End of the Garden 2.0
So it’s the end of the garden for this season, and the end of another part of my life as well. I resigned my position as executive editor at Blogcritics at the end of September. After six gratifying...
View ArticleSlow Cooker Pork Roast in Apple Cider
It’s Sunday, and it’s also Halloween. In the interest of freeing up my day to spend some time on task (I’m seriously going to try to clean up my studio today, or at least get a start on it), I popped...
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