Chinese New Year begins today, February 3, 2011 and will be celebrated for the next 15 days, during which many foods considered to be lucky and fortuitous are served. The qualifications for lucky or symbolic foods vary, and their powers can be attributed to their appearance (long noodles for long life) or their names, which may resemble words like “fortune”, “gold,” or “abundance.” Last year More
After a beautiful spring-like day spent in the garden on Sunday, another front is arriving today to remind us it is still winter, after all. I have been shopping from the pantry and playing with inexpensive cold weather recipes lately, and it’s likely that some of these will be on the table during the next couple of days. They all make big batches to feed More
Our second annual New Year’s Eve dinner and dance party turned out to be delicious and fun. It stared with a bit of work, as planned, cleaning the garden as best as possible and harvesting things we wanted to use or needed to be picked. I grabbed some of the ‘Early Wonder’ beets, which have proven to be some of my favorites. The roots are More