i hope you eat good food, grow beautiful things, and have more love than you know what to do with.
Every year, during the course of my crabbing adventures I catch a few soft shelled crabs. When that happens, I start thinking about what deliciousness I can make with them. Soft shelled crabs are crabs that have just molted from their shells and their new …
Every year, inevitably, all sorts of plants emerge from my compost pile from the seeds of the stuff I throw into it. Squash and pumpkin most commonly, especially since much of the Halloween decorations get tossed in at the end of the season. This year …
A cascade of blue claws this year has me cleaning and freezing them around the clock (I remove the stomach before freezing and scrub, so that they don’t have a fishy flavor due to crabs being scavengers.) Nanbanzuke is an easy Japanese side dish most …
I can be very extra with my food, and this is one such case. This morning me and the family went down to the docks, expecting to come away with maybe a couple crabs and some fish. Instead, we ended up pulling up two and …
As we get further into blue claw season in Long Island, I am busy making tasty things with them. This lemon crab pasta is really easy to make, and the splash of cream at the end gives this a delicious richness that is difficult to …
I was recommended tomato chutney as a possible recipe when my tomatoes started ripening in earnest. I have never had any before, to my knowledge, which is a pity because after this week, I’ll be canning as much as I could of this delicious condiment. …
And just like that, my tomatoes have started to cascade in red globes and spheres of all sizes, and with them come the abundantly delicious things I could make. Before I start the process of storing them (most likely dehydrated and powdered), I wanted to …
I didn’t grow cucumbers this year but luckily a friend did (and what cucumbers they grew!) I traded them a jar of floral raspberry jam, and ferreted home a bag of cucumbers as thick as my wrist (I clearly came out on top in this …
My kids came in to give me the morning report–another flush of chicken of the woods had made its presence known on the lawn and so it was imperative that I harvested them before they got too tough. I made karaage style COTW a few …
This flatbread BLT recipe is literally “garden fresh” as my tomatoes have finally started to ripen, and spoonfuls of pesto from my basil pesto were drizzled on (although you can absolutely use dandelion pesto). This is quite late in the year, as I usually have …