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CAMC Week 1: Red Russian kale, turnip chips, Zevia mojitos

After 3 consecutive years of waiting too long before trying to sign up with a CSA and then finding all the shares sold out, this year I took no chances. There was still snow on the ground here in late March when I signed on with Rock Spring Farm for a full summer vegetable share. [...]

Cooking Away My CSA Challenge: Count me in!

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Thought I’d take a shot at designing a logo for the fantastic group I just joined, the

Cooking Away My CSA Challenge

Greatest idea ever. And just in time! Friday afternoon I picked up our first weekly CSA box of veggies, and now I have to [...]

We Can Build the Dream With Love: MLK Day 2009

I’ve been over at   Blip.fm all day,  playing tunes in honor of MLK day today and the Inauguration tomorrow,  and who should I encounter there but one of my Blogmothers — the legendary Jude Nagurney Camwell, aka Iddybud.

Iddybud was one of the first blogs I ever read, way back in those long ago days lost [...]

Weekender

Weekend Brunch Eggbake

Spray inside bottom and sides of an 11×7 glass baking dish with cooking oil spray.

Put in 1 and 1/2 cups salad croutons or toasted breadcubes.
Add 1 can of cut asparagus spears, drained.
Add 1 and 1/2 cups shredded monterey jack or colby-jack cheese.
In a medium size bowl, beat 6 eggs.
Add 1 and 1/2 cups milk [...]

What to do with that 33 oz jar of organic strawberry spreadable fruit that you just had to buy because it was only $4.69 at Costco

Or:

For Scandie Girls Who Have Considered The 33 Oz Jar From Costco When The 12 Oz Jar From Rainbow Is Enuf

(May Ntozake Shange forgive me)

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1) Make strawberry bread.

STRAWBERRY BREAD

1 cup butter
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. lemon juice or 1/4 tsp. lemon extract
4 eggs
1 tsp. soda, dissolved in 1/2 cup sour cream
3 cups [...]

Say Hello to 2007

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Eeek! Full frontal fridge shot!

Welcome back to my kitchen, boys and girls. This is a picture of my refrigerator. On this New Year’s Day in the bright shining new year of 2007, once again I’m back to babble on and on about stuff nobody ever heard of or [...]

Great Gift Idea: Cookbook By Progressive Bloggers To Benefit Doctors Without Borders

And They Cook, Too

A Blogger Cookbook Fundraiser for
Doctors Without Borders
Compiled and edited by Ginger Mayerson and Kathy Flake
Illustrations by Carol Colin and Robin Riggs
Cover Graphics by Tild~

From the introduction:

Last year on October 8 an earthquake, measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale, hit Kashmir, the northern part of Pakistan. Being a native Californian, I know that’s [...]

You can call me (the Anti-) Ray-Ray

Or:  How I spent my weekend

(burning my fingertips slaving over a hot krumkake iron and what thanks do I get, huh? Huh?)

No, I’ll never be Rachel Ray, grinning maniacally out at you from every box of Triscuits on every shelf at every grocery store in the universe

(not to mention haunting the Wege’s nightmares with her patented [...]

Recipes for the weekend after Thanksgiving

Here’s three dishes I made this weekend strictly from leftovers and ingredients I had on hand

(mainly because going to a grocery store even once between last Wednesday and today would have driven me to ritual seppuku)

Apparently I’m a culinary genius; they all turned out pretty good.

Brunch Egg Bake

8″ square glass baking dish

Spray inside of baking dish [...]

Commence your dancing

Hmmm. What to make for breakfast/brunch when you don’t have a lot of things on hand and you don’t feel like going to the store?

Ahh. Here we go. I’ve got all the ingredients for this.

…I hope it’s good!

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Cowboy Coffee Cake

2 1/2 cups flour

1/2 tsp salt

2 cups brown sugar

2/3 cup shortening

2 tsp baking powder

1/2 [...]