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Monthly Archives: August 2011

It’s Practice.

“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!  

Weekly Menu 8.22.11

No recipe books this week.  The weather is too nice for elaborate cooking.  If you decide to try the cornbread mix we use, you’ll see it calls for eggs.  We substitute 3 Tbsp warm water + 1 Tbsp flax meal per egg (whisk together before adding).  I gave up on trying to make it from scratch [...]

It’s Excess.

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. 

Weekly Menu 8.15.11

We’re back.   Monday Collard Greens with Corn Grit Cakes Tuesday Creamy Mushroom Bake with Chickpeas