Posted in Cooking, Food Adventures, For Fun on May 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is certainly not a baking site, and I know my last post was cookie-oriented, but I couldn’t resist letting these little beauties get some face time.
It’s the principal’s secretary’s birthday, and you want to make sure that the secretaries are happy. There are no more important people in a school, after all, than the [...]
Posted in Cooking, Food Adventures, eat local on May 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Since trying to eat more locally, one of my new habits has been Saturday Morning Cookie Baking. My husband is a pretty routine-oriented lunch eater: either leftovers from dinner or a sandwich, chips, cookie and a banana.
I’ve told you before that the bananas (while organic) are certainly not a local item, but also not [...]
Posted in Food Adventures, Gardening, Need Help on May 17, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Okay, I know that some of you are struggling with space in your sunny rooms with rows and rows of seedlings ready to be planted, but waiting another week for the “official” end of frost season. Some of you are pondering the placement of pea vines and wondering if you should go ahead and plant [...]
Posted in FFF, For Fun, Travel on May 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is a photo my husband took while climbing the dome at St. Peter’s in Rome. The tiny tiles all just blend together when viewed from the floor, but close up you can really get a sense of how the different colors come together to create an image with shading and highlighting. Quite a feat [...]
Posted in Cooking, For Fun, Just Plain Good Ideas, Thoughts on May 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
During our long winter, I got into the habit of enjoying slow Saturday mornings with a cup of tea, the week’s pile of mail, and Jamie Oliver.
I haven’t always been a Jamie Oliver fan. His Naked Chef stuff was a little too manic for me. Sure, the cute British accent and use of [...]
Posted in Food Politics, Thoughts, eat local on May 8, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I’m getting kind of pissed at you.
Time was, I would always buy some fresh fish on the day I did my major grocery shopping for the week. For almost the last year, I haven’t been a regular grocery shopper, but our small, local grocery store does have a little fish counter, and I would [...]
Posted in Food Adventures, Gardening, Local Food on May 4, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Huh! Who knew?
I’ve mentioned before, I’m not a gardener. I know it’s antithetical to the cause, but when I started this blog it was with the intention of seeing if someone could eat primarily local foods without producing them herself. Well, folks, you can.
More and more, though, as I enjoy summer’s bounty [...]
Posted in Cooking, One Local Summer, eat local, seasonal eating on May 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If you’ve been following along, you know that we’ve been eating locally all winter, and staying motivated thanks to Laura’s Dark Days Eat Local Challenge.
Well, now that seedlings are breaking through the soil all over the place here, it’s time to start thinking summer. Eating locally in the summer is a joy, and the [...]
Posted in FFF, Travel on May 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I promise that this weekend, we’ll be back to our regularly-scheduled programming here at YankeeFood.
Meanwhile, I’ll leave you with this wysteria in Venice. I was a little obsessed with flora while in Italy…there was still snow on the ground here when we left! We had a nice panini lunch under this canopy. Ahhh….bella!
