mandarin orange dust, and a small OXO giveaway

Can I just say that I’ve been dying to do a giveaway on this blog? Pretty much since I started writing stuff here? The awesome folks at OXO sent me two hand held mandoline slicers, one to try out and one to give to a reader. The hand held mandoline slicer is pretty minimalistic (there’s [...]

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veggie CSA, no. 3, 2011

(haha, another entry that I’m posting later than I had originally intended.  CSA #4 is tomorrow… I wonder what it will be!) “Things are still pretty green at the farm. Until the cukes and zucchini start yielding the shares tend to be pretty light and leafy. But lots of goodies on the way: tomatoes and [...]

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edible garden, no. 3, 2011

First of all, no comments on my bad transplanting technique, if you please.  It’s the result of growing seeds in re-purposed take-out containers.  I realized much later that separating the babies was going to be impossible.  So, I plopped them down as is.  Next year, I will definitely invest in some biodegradeable pots for seedlings.  [...]

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You win some, you lose some

I made a gluten free cake today: a blackberry ricotta cake. The original recipe had been for a blueberry ricotta cake with normal flour. But blueberries aren’t quite in season while blackberries are.

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