it’s the last day of july and quite frankly it’s been an eating frenzy around here.� between the new blog, two�summer excursions, celebrating both our birthdays�and a 9 day stretch with�my guy’s�kids – well, i’ve been bad – very bad. now i’m not making any excuses.� it’s all me – and my lack of discipline.� […]

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i soaked, i rinsed.� i rinsed.� i rinsed.� i rinsed.� i rinsed. and lookey here.�

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here was sunday night’s dinner which was actually quite wonderful despite the photo.� the potatoes were� csa yukons – small one’s – boiled and then flattened and then put in a hot pan with some olive oil for about 3 minutes a side as recently seen in the ny times mag ‘potato tostones’ recipe.� i […]

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ok so here�we’ve got an�angel hair summer pasta dish.� listen up kids cause it’s a snap.� just saute the diced shallots in butter (gasp) and then once the shallots have softened�add some cream (double gasp)�- carefully so as not to seperate, along with some salt and pepper.� then�use as many cups of seeded and chopped […]

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hands down. and this is not debatable. this was some fine ratatouille. not too stewy. not too heavy. just right. and the sad part is that it’s not my creation. it came from a recipe from "smitten kitchen". she saw the movie and got inspired. i suppose i’ll see it on pay-per-view one of these […]

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(upon opening my fridge…)� hey you eggplants in there, stop yer whining!�don’t make me pull over and have to cancel that ratatouille recipe i’m making tomorrow. yes – you damnwell heard me. that’s right. i said tomorrow. YES TOMORROW. now settle down in there. for god’s sake, just go talk to the 3 heads of […]

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� it came from delvin farms weekly share and it’d been in my fridge for over 3 weeks.� a big beautiful purple orb calling out to me, begging to be used.� begging�not to be relegated to die a slow and chilly death, shriveling up little by little while i pass it by for other more […]

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