Mastering the Art of Country Living

September 23, 2009

House-sitting in the country (with real live chicken and everything!)
is life exotic to citified dwellers like Jef and me. A few weekends ago, you would have found us porch-bound with mugs of tea, a guitar, and a gigantic stack of food magazines. Heaven in a woven basket.

Above, the stuff snacks in dreams are made [...]

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Summer lovin’…happened so fast

September 10, 2009

*Recipes below*
Goodbye thick, heavenly homemade tzatziki* with farm-fresh cucumbers, dill, mint, and garlic…
Goodbye plentiful, colorful summer CSA bounty (and sweet goodbye to my '09 favorite summertime meal- eggplant, tomato, zucchini, summer squash, onions, and bell peppers –all grilled together making up a drippy, delectable vegetable souvlaki*, topped with a blanket of homemade tzatziki)…
I'm not going [...]

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what’s been hapa-ning

August 4, 2009

It's hot, I've been away, my computer only works when the charger is attached, my left shoulder's been killing me for weeks, and I've just overall been running running running. And maybe have been somewhat cranky at times. But mostly happy-go-lucky.  (Did you catch that movie, by the way? I really enjoyed it. Poppy's [...]

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crumble me this

July 7, 2009

Huge storms here lately, days on end of massive pounding raindrops.
"Liquid sunshine" is what my tv deliveryman called it (new owners of a flatscreen!).
The liquid sunshine has finally transformed into dry sunshine, of the superbright and shimmery quality.  It's very welcome around here.  Our CSA's crops are happier, too.
Also welcome is this strawberry rhubarb [...]

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hooray for csa!

June 22, 2009

Jef and I are giddy every week to pick up our farm stash from Catalpa Ridge CSA.CSA stands for community supported agriculture, and I don't know about where you are, but this type of program is positively blowing up around me!(Still, "csa" is one of the few terms I've googled in which no wikipedia [...]

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Meet & Eat me on Serious Eats!

May 29, 2009

Hi, world!
Check out my Meet & Eat profile over on Serious Eats! 
Find out things you never knew about me…exciting stuff!

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(ohhh sooo) slow & steady wins the (risotto) race

May 27, 2009

I wouldn't mind if I didn't see a grain of rice for a good long while. Of course that isn't likely since I way overbought the Arborio rice I needed to compete in the Just Food Risotto Challenge at Jimmy's No. 43 on Saturday. (Plus, I'm half Korean [speaking of which, check out Hapa [...]

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I hop for whole wheat buttermilk blueberry pancakes

May 18, 2009

 Leisurely Saturdays are a gift. The work week is behind you and the free day sprawls in front of you like a dusty back country road. These late mornings beg for pancake breakfasts.I had a carton of buttermilk I needed to use and Heidi's recipe from 101 Cookbooks uses a hefty 2 1/4 cups [...]

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!Andale! Make this Tortilla Soup now

April 25, 2009

Let's go! Make this soup before it's too hot and sticky outside to want to eat something warm, soothing, and spicy!  (Will it ever be too warm for that? Probably Aug. in NYC…)
It's Saturday and so sunny I feel like a caged animal indoors, so I'm going to keep this short.  You don't need [...]

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spreadsheets, saving $, and dinner

April 20, 2009

This dinner was built out of a new resolution: save as much money as possible and use up all of the food I have at home.
'Doesn't look too shabby, does it?  The meal was quite delicious, especially the pasta — a concoction I riffed from the Penne with Potatoes and Rocket I saw a [...]

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