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Sunday, September 7th, 2008
Link of the Week: Save The Legs!!!
Welcome to the inaugural edition of Link of the Week! Each week I will feature one of my favorite websites and provide a link to it so that you may enjoy it as well. The featured website may or may not revolve around food and wine but it will be enjoyable. This week’s featured website [...]
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Saturday, September 6th, 2008
A La Turka
My husband and I have just returned from enjoying this month’s Foreign Food Night at A La Turka on the Upper East Side. This month was my husband’s turn to choose which cuisine we would explore and he chose Turkish. We used to live in the same neighborhood as A La Turka and we always [...]
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Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
My Farm Share Week 12
This week’s Farm Share delivery had a huge surprise in it… a watermelon! See the photo below: The watermelon pulverized one of our 4 tomatoes and made a humongous mess in the box so we had to clean off all of the vegetables and discard the box immediately (hence, no box shots). In addition to [...]
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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
My Farm Share Week 11 Summary
As I told you last Wednesday, the tomatoes we received were on their last leg and had to be used ASAP. So, that night, after work, I went to the market and got 1 pound each of ground beef and ground pork, 1 can each of black beans and kidney beans and a bottle of vegetable [...]
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Monday, September 1st, 2008
Homemade Applesauce
Happy Labor Day! As today is the unofficial end of summer, tomorrow is (unofficially) the beginning of Fall! Fall makes me think of apples and apples make me think of applesauce and applesauce makes me think of my Great-Grandma Hollingsworth who used to make homemade applesauce for me and my brother when we were little. [...]
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
My Farm Share Week 11
Well folks, we are at the half way mark for our farm shares. The time is really flying by and I am having a lot of fun working with the awesome variety of vegetables that we receive each week. If you are not yet a member of a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture), I encourage you [...]
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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
My Farm Share Week 10 Wrap-Up
Good Morning, Dear Reader. I had a great time “playing” with my food this week. Luckily, my mother never taught me not to play with my food… what fun I would miss out on! The photo below is an awesome salad I made with the 2 larger cucumbers (seeded), grape tomatoes, parsley, the light yellow-green [...]
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Sunday, August 24th, 2008
Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie
My husband and I enjoyed an early dinner with our good friends, Alyson and Lamar, tonight at Dinosaur Bar-B-Que in Harlem. After having our fill of ribs, chicken, brisket, sausage and an array of sides, we somehow had room for dessert. My husband’s choice reminded me of a pie that I make for him on [...]
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
Local vs. Organic
I have a question… Which is the best way to buy: Local or Organic? There are many ways to debate this question and tons of research to support each side, I’m sure. Buying local products reduces the amount of fossil fuel burned in transporting the products to us, thereby reducing the emission of greenhouse gases [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Drinks,Food,Philosophy by Tracy
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
My Farm Share Week 10
Good Morning All! I am really excited today as we received a very colorful box of vegetables this morning… a bunch of spinach (I love spinach!), a bunch of yellow and white Swiss chard, a few sprigs of Italian parsley, 4 cucumbers, 4 red tomatoes, a bag of grape tomatoes, 3 cubanelle peppers (1 red, [...]
