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
This is one of those conflicting things about gardening in Austin: the seasons don’t always match what we have growing in the garden. I mean, why can’t cilantro be nice and grow in the summer when we want to use it with all those beautiful tomatoes and chiles in our salsas and ceviches? And why do salad greens grow best in the dead of winter 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
So, as is usually the case, things don’t quite work as planned. Because we returned from the Larson home too tired to motivate and cook, and Willy was kinda down with a cold so not really into cooking much, I winged it. The Thanksgiving menu ended up pared down: we ate the caviar, but on toast points instead of eggs; the soup turned into a More
Thanksgiving is perhaps the most characteristic of all holidays in the United States, as I know no other culture that celebrates it. I hated it for years after spending every single one cooking the previously unknown fare at Threadgill’s (“what the hell is cornbread stuffing????”), but I have learned to love it not necessarily for it’s historical meaning, but as an excuse to enjoy family, More