“Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond…”
— Mark Twain
I started canning this summer and, as with most of my culinary ventures, I do not excel at it. I like to be terrible at lots of things at once, though, so now I’m bad at canning too! (Continued)
We’ve been pretty obsessed with the farmer’s market this summer. We go and let the kids run around and buy a bunch of stuff we have no use for. Then we eat some of it, and I scramble to keep it from spoiling before we finish the rest. (Continued)
“I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.”
—Ulysses S. Grant
Summer break is almost over. We’re fully committed to stuffing ourselves with peaches and nectarines in record breaking amounts and hopefully you are too. We will have plenty to say about it very very soon. Wink.
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“They take great pride in making their dinner cost much;
I take my pride in making my dinner cost so little.”
–Henry David Thoreau
There are only three saffron threads to be found in a Saffron Crocus flower. Such threads are harvested by hand in Persia, where they grow in what are apparently impossible to reproduce conditions. If it were possible, someone would have started chaining sad crocus flowers together in a factory somewhere long ago in order to capitalize on the world’s most expensive spice. (Continued)
The Selfish Vegan is attempting to reacquaint herself with the kitchen. What in the name of Natalie Portman’s shoes is a Mandolin Slicer for?
