by Toni | Apr 29, 2020 | Let's Eat, Live Green, Vegetables
April may be the cruelest month according to poet T.S. Eliot, but for Don, it’s a food fiesta. Every April, we clean out the deep freeze, defrost and scrub it, getting it ready for the new market season ahead. Everything’s gotta go. Nothing is wasted, and for Don it’s...
by Toni | Feb 29, 2020 | Come Home, Let's Eat, Vegetables
Don and I have only made one brief trip to the fabled French Quarter, but we loved the history, the cultures and the food…especially that Cajun and Creole cooking! The Louisiana city simmers with beauty and sizzles with passion. The traditional dishes are...
by Toni | Dec 30, 2019 | Let's Eat, Live Green, Vegetables
The Impossible Burger. It is said to be “the one that bleeds,” a plant-based burger made from “plant meat” (Read: GMO soybean root heme—and doesn’t that sound appetizing.). Finding its way from high-end restaurants to fast food chains to grocery store shelves, this...
by Toni | Sep 29, 2019 | Let's Eat, Live Green, Vegetables
Autumn is the season of BIG harvest. It’s as if Nature put on a fireworks display all summer and September and October mark the grand finale, when the world is literally lit up with abundance. All the winter squash is coming in by the wagonloads at my market, while...
by Toni | Jul 29, 2019 | Farmer's Market, Let's Eat, Vegetables
Ok, enough with bad punning because there is nothing bad or far away about this easy, totally-transportable salad that tastes just like a summer garden. But it’s true, isn’t it? Just when all the great salad fixin’s arrive at the farmers markets—the tomatoes, bell...
by Toni | Jun 28, 2019 | Farmer's Market, Let's Eat, Vegetables
I know that I go on and on about the Goshen Community Market on this blog. You’d think I never went anywhere else in town. There are, however, other community events in Edwardsville that are favorites of mine—especially St. Andrews Church Used Book Fair. It happens...
