I made a salad Sunday with the gorgeous vegetables I had just acquired from the farmers market. Just thrown together, David and I were both startled by the beauty; what a great play on a complimentary color scheme! When I looked around our home, I was delighted to see the color scheme repeated over and… Continue reading Color study; Sunday salad
Last week at work while taking a break with Janet (when I served her some pumpkin pudding I had made) I looked around and realized that everything I was doing that day seemed to be dominated by pumpkin color. We are subliminally influenced after all... I thought you all might enjoy this brief photographic collage… Continue reading Color study; pumpkin pudding
It is said that "gratitude is knowing that we have enough" ...and for those of us that do, let us take on the role of care takers.Heirloom plants are our cultural inheritance. They have been handed down to us from a time before chemical agriculture. ...from a time with a much greater diversity of flavor,… Continue reading Heirloom Harvest Barn Dinner
We were so fortunate to inherit our late neighbor, Walter Goodwin’s, rhubarb patch when we acquired his property across the road from us. Mature, lush plants with tart apple-y flavored stalks, cooking with them are a throw back to gentler times now made trendy with the Slow Food eat-local movements. In an effort to… Continue reading Grilled rhubarb pie
What a better way to kick off the warm weather season then with a back yard party! Thank you to Danna and Bill and their hand-crafted mud oven for a day of fun and friendship. They made the mud oven a couple years ago over a pile of rocks from their property and a brick… Continue reading Back yard pizza and friends
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