Love Real Food

Love Real Food

Well, OK. Don’t we all love real food, especially when our favorite dishes are on the table? Mmmmm….what are those dishes? Did you prepare them or did you open a box of stuff prepared by someone unknown…in a laboratory… working for for a major...
The Challenge of Creating “From Scratch”

The Challenge of Creating “From Scratch”

Well, I had to do something with all that vegetable stock I made last week, so I decided to cook up some whole grains. Specifically, some wheat berries, which are the entire wheat grain—its bran, germ and endosperm, minus the hull. They contain a lot of fiber and...

Lettuce not despair….

Nothing much leafy and green this week—even the kale took a vacation. The hot, dry days of summer’s end  yield little for a green salad if you are intent on eating local, organic produce from the market. So, what to do? I reach for cabbage. My farmer at Daydream...
Cherries are at the Market

Cherries are at the Market

Bing? No. Rainier? No. Sour? No. Ground. Huh?   Ground Cherries are little fruits in the same genus as tomatillos (and we can talk about tomatillos sometime down the road). Ground Cherries share a papery husk like tomatillos and are in the same family as...