During the winter, when we don’t have our regular weekly CSA boxes, Mariquita Farms has a Mystery Box program to pick up the slack. Sort of like a CSA, but way more casual, interested folks signup for a box, delivered to a local spot, filled with whatever is ripe that week. In the middle of [...]
Very very soon, all of you who work (in or outside the home) will be invited by to sling wet noodles at my face. I feel as though I have been dutifully posting menus (each week since 2009), with the idea that they were somehow helpful to working moms who did not have time to cook. What [...]
With a short week, soccer starting (both Spring and Indoor), a science fair project or two, and a volunteer recognition dinner, the week’s menu needs to be easy and designed with planned over (leftovers) in mind. We arrived at the airport tonight after a weekend away, and stopped by Whole Foods on the way home, [...]
Wake up! Time to get started. We are already 8 days into the New Year and I feel behind. Well, not really behind, but there are definitely opportunities to take advantage of. Did you make any resolutions this year? The article in the NY Times this morning suggested that we have space for one resolution, [...]
Two interesting features I would like to highlight on the new and improved Kitchen Gadget Girl site (eventually I will move over to the Food in the Kitchen name, but I hate to rush into new things). First off, did you know you can print any of the recipes on Kitchen Gadget Girl? That’s right! [...]
Ah, the joy of late fall/early winter dinners. Slow cookers and pressure cookers become my BFFs, for their ability to transform everyday food stuffs into delightful soups and stews perfectly suited to cold weather and busy schedules. Last week’s menu, particularly the Slow Cooker Beef Barley Soup, was great. The Farro with Butternut squash made [...]
Apologies for those of you totally into the NaBloPoMo and eagerly awaiting my last few posts. I sort of fell apart this week (even with the lame-o editorial calendar I put together). The good news is that I have gone back to work (part-time, don’t panic); the bad news is I have less time to [...]
Our first week without a box from Mariquita Farms and it is probably a good thing. We have a busy post-holiday week ahead and I think we may end up eating out more than in. Last week’s menu turned out well – the Lime-Cilantro Sweet Potatoes were excellent, and while the crab feed lacked crab [...]
From a menu planning standpoint, last week was a disaster. The menu plan was good, but our schedule was all wonky, and we ended up abandoning the entire plan by Tuesday night. We still ate well and at this point in the season, many of the vegetables in our box from Mariquita have good [...]
Remember I wrote about kohlrabi back in April? Mariquita Farms stuck some in our spring box and it was a new vegetable for us, one that we enjoyed quite a bit. Jonathan came in May to cook for a party at our house, and demonstrated a quick way to cook kohlrabi (or tokyo turnips): Seared [...]
Last year, when Mariquita Farms included fresh peanuts in our box, Louise and I made peanut brittle. Not really a disaster, per se, but not super successful. The candy was rock hard and I might have chipped a tooth. This year, I am looking for a different way to prepare the peanuts and fortunately Chef [...]
From our Mariquita Farms and Happy Child CSA boxes, we have a lot of apples around our house these days, and since I am newly endowed with braces, I am not eating them out of hand as before. Besides sliced in lunches, I found a few other recipes last week that were quite tasty: Apple [...]
