By sally, on August 29th, 2010
A few weekends ago Graham and I escaped the weird wintry cold of the Berkeley summer and went to check out the farm where our CSA box comes from. For several months we had been getting notices in our vegetable box about Saturday farm tours and decided the time was right to go [...]
By sally, on August 22nd, 2010
I’ve heard it said before that eating pimientos de padrón (or padrón peppers) is like playing a game of Russian roulette—you never know how spicy a pepper is going to be until you take a bite. Yep, some of these little guys are spicy and some are not. In my experience most of [...]
By sally, on August 15th, 2010
Let’s talk about herbs—fresh herbs. I have mixed feelings when it comes to fresh herbs. On the one hand, I love them—they can add zest and zip to all sorts of dishes. On the other hand they kind of scare me. Sometimes I feel unsure about the quantity of [...]
By sally, on July 31st, 2010
I was lucky enough to have one of my best friends, Lisa, come up to visit and help me celebrate my birthday last weekend. She and I have been friends since before we could talk and have kept in touch ever since, even though we’ve often been living in different cities [...]
By sally, on July 15th, 2010
I have dreams of one day having an herb garden. Whenever a recipe calls for fresh herbs, it would be great to walk right outside to the garden and snip a bit of basil or pluck a few leaves of mint. But as I’ve mentioned previously, Graham and I currently don’t [...]
