by Toni | Mar 18, 2021 | Come Home, Let's Eat, Meat Masterpieces
The Spring season always awakens our tastebuds for those fresh, earthy, cool-weather greens and roots that are the first to emerge from the garden. We dive into kale and leaf lettuces, spring onions, peas and maybe some early varieties of turnips. After winter, the...
by Toni | Feb 16, 2021 | Come Home, Let's Eat, Sinful Sensations
Even after many years, I still miss my grandma. I am as old now as she was when I was a little girl living in her house. That is just so hard for me to fathom. My grandma left this world on June 10, 1993, the year of a great flood where I live. Several similar floods...
by Toni | Dec 20, 2020 | Come Home, Green Decisions, Let's Eat
As most Green Gal readers know, I worship the ground Chef Vivian Howard walks on. So it should come as no surprise that when her PBS series A Chef’s Life came to its final episode, I was inconsolable and weepy for weeks. True to her nature and her calling, Chef Howard...
by Toni | Sep 22, 2020 | Be Simple, Come Home, Live Green
Last year I made the decision to start ripping up my front yard—eventually I mean to rip up all my yard. The plan is to give back some of my land to the Earth: remember last year’s post She Went Native Right in the Front Yard? With the help of local native plant...
by Toni | Aug 30, 2020 | Come Home, Let's Eat, Sinful Sensations
In college, I took two years of French. I loved studying and speaking this beautiful language. You can literally read a grocery list in French and create poetry. Pommes de terre, les haricots verts, et rôti de boeuf—that’s potatoes, green beans and roast...
by Toni | Aug 13, 2020 | Be Simple, Come Home, Let's Eat
The kitchen as classroom—it’s certainly not a new concept. A culinary hero of mine, Alice Waters, was one of the first chefs to identify this idea with her Edible Schoolyard Project, a project that has since taken on a life of its own and been replicated in...
