Learn to make this fresh, homemade bright green pasta at home, with farm fresh eggs, a rich but simple savory filling, and a quick but luscious sauce, although it’s also fantastic served “en brodo” in a bowl of rich broth as an…
eto If you didn’t know that we weren’t Morman or “zombie preppers”, looking in our pantry wouldn’t convince you otherwise (we’re neither, btw). But still, we believe in keeping a deep working pantry whenever possible. And you should too! Are you curious…
I walk through the garden in the gathering fall, and find a last blooming Ferdinand Pichard rose and hips, a few tarrying half-ripened blackberries, pelted with pellets of icy snow on a grey November day. Beauty lingering, clinging to green, a wintery…
Opened the last of the self-indulgent birthday lox for breakfast, on sourdough English muffins with cream cheese, capers, cracked black pepper, and some rain-wet chives from the garden… Hence the fabulously dark and moody light today. And later, will use the rest…
Peaches come, from a can, they were put there by a (wo)man, near a factory and dowwnntowwn… (that’s how it goes, right? No? Ok, close enough) Growing Cold-Hardy Peaches in Chicago I guess these peaches are technically not free, but the…
Sooo chill. OM gonna shovel the porch now… We got a foot of snow during my vacation (finally! It was use-it-or-lose-it time, and boy howdy, did I need the break). I have been basking in the coziness of home and the luxury…