The first CSA haul of the summer and I’m already faced with the unknown: eggplant. I guess because my grandfather never grew eggplants, I hardly ever ate them and certainly never had to figure out how to cook them. Indulging my tendency to try things that are probably a bit too complicated, I settled on [...]
Archive for June, 2010
The Enigmatic Eggplant
Posted in CSA, Eats, Photographs, tagged cooking, CSA, eggplant, eggplant Parmesan, farm, food, grandfather, Martha Stewart, recipes, summer, tomatoes on June 28, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Bringing the past home
Posted in Family, Home, Photographs, tagged childhood, death, family, funeral, grandmother, husband, memories, mississippi, pineapple bedposts, South, spice on June 22, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I don’t even know what to call this piece of furniture. Spice cabinet? Spice drawers? During its long tenure in my grandmother’s house, it was simply the blue drawers in the hallway; for adults, the holder of telephone books, for kids, the source of puzzles and books, pencils and paper. I brought it home after [...]
Seriously, buy a salad spinner
Posted in CSA, Photographs, tagged Brady Bunch, CSA, food, greens, OXO, salad, salad spinner, Swiss chard on June 9, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Listed among Things I Never Thought I Would Buy: a salad spinner. They always seemed very Carol Brady, although I guess they were really more Alice Nelson since Mrs. Brady didn’t do much of the cooking on that show. I digress. I spent last summer washing, drying and trying to properly store a weekly mess [...]
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