One of the things I love about summer is that it doesn’t take much to create something beautiful. This is true most of the year, but in this northern climate we so appreciate our chances to spend time outside and to eat good fresh food. […]
Blueberry pie seems to have become a July tradition for me. It doesn’t seem like summer without it. This pie plate makes for an enormous pie, but our visitors helped us to devour most of it. When it comes to pie, I believe it is […]
So far, it has been a beautiful summer. We have filled the days with getting to know Amos and ourselves as parents and they are speeding by. At the moment he is napping, his normally wiggly body barely moving with each breath. I am sitting […]
On Monday, I already had Tuesday planned out. I would work on some writing, do a few kitchen tasks, a little sewing, finish the laundry, and go for a run before work at 4. Monday afternoon I was unexpectedly given a box of these- must-be-canned-now-before-they-perish […]
Over the winter, I finally got around to reading Home Cooking by Laurie Colwin. I enjoyed her straightforward honest writing about food and eating both glorious and messy, satisfying and repulsive. Maybe because I was reading her book far away from summer, the chapter that […]
I’ve immersed myself in canning projects as much as possible in the past few weeks, ensuring that I will have plenty of summer stored away. I often put these jars in the pantry and cupboard with ideas for winter meals. Yesterday while canning raspberry jam […]
The market was full of color and corn and peppers and even apples. The aisles between the tables and trucks were crowded and not wanting to move with the slow current of people, I slipped in and around the other shoppers looking to my left […]
On Saturday morning, Ray and I rode our bikes down to the farmers’ market. When I say down, I mean it is an easy coast of a couple miles downhill all the way. Since we had to carry everything all the way back up […]
Although I know that I love the process of preserving fruits and vegetables because they taste good, they are beautiful, it is satisfying to fill the jars, and I feel rich with a pantry full of many of the flavors of summer, I still ask […]
I love the height of summer produce season when my kitchen is filled with vegetables and fruit, sometimes piled on tables, sometimes tucked into the fridge. As I peruse recipes and decide how to use my treasure I am inspired by such great potential. Each […]