WGRS: Best Gingerbread Cookies in the World, reblogged

I hope it’s ok with Alice (and if it’s not, A, just delete this post!) but I thought I’d share her gingerbread cookie recipe and include in the Wedding Gift Recipe Series. I cut and pasted the recipe text from her personal blog.
Gingerbread cookies
from the Moosewood Dessert Book, p. 184
but modified to fit [...]

Summer begins when…

… you first go outside into your garden and your basil is big enough to cut some and not worry about the rest of the plant dying off.
Mmmmm…. basil. I threw the chiffonade of a big handful as well as a diced clove of garlic into a cup of cooked pasta, added salt and [...]

Eating seasonally: asparagus with ginger

What to do with a bounty of asparagus? Ah, if only to regularly have such a problem…

Eating seasonally: swiss and rainbow chard

A dolled-up recipe for sauteeing swiss chard, the bountiful summer green.

CSA starts up: summer is here!

Sorry for the long blogging absence!
We are members of two CSAs(=”Community Supported Agriculture“), one in Illinois and one in Indiana. The one in Illinois, Henry’s Farm, is fairly infamous for its fabulous variety of vegetables, and its servicing of Chicago restaurants. The one in Indiana we’re new to, ECO/TwinCrooks, which works with an [...]

The seasons collide: roasting spring, summer and fall veggies

It’s been a few weeks since I have had time to cook anything fun – too much work and traveling. Friday I got to go home for a few days, and as we finally got to go to the grocery store yesterday, we got good veggies for cooking. On the weekends, we try [...]

Ginger tea

I’ve been ill. A big January cold to welcome in the new year, and my birthday (of course). I had heard that tea with honey was better for coughs than cough syrup, and so drank through my entire herbal tea collection in the space of a week. Desperate for an alternative that [...]

Cherry soup

A recipe from a colleague who brought this soup to the Vanilla Fest of last weekend – the annotations are also hers. It was delicious! You can use it for a main course during a hot day, or as a dessert. Mmmmmm…..
Hungarian Cherry Soup
2 bags frozen cherries (I used sweet, but [...]

Vanilla Fest 2008

A friend of mine was brought 153 vanilla pods as a foodie gift this year, and in celebration, hosted the first annual Vanilla Fest on Jan 12 (mark your calendars for next year!). While sharing the recipes would be more apropos of this blog, it would also be overwhelming for me. So instead, [...]

Introducing Alice

Hi readers! I’m a 30-something vegetarian (mostly) who has an addiction to seasonal, local food. My husband and I have our own vegetable garden in Illinois, and we grow tomatoes, peppers, garlic, onions, herbs, chard, carrots, spinach, cucumbers and zucchini when the weather cooperates. We eat well in the summer, and preserve [...]