Caregiving from my kitchen
You may have noticed that we have been getting tomatoes… Our CSA farm grows many fields of tomatoes, well aware that this is something the Customer Likes. We even got tomatoes the year Blight hit the Northeast badly – by some luck (and some good …
It is finally Spring! (I say on June 1st, which is the first day of Meteorological Summer in these parts…) But the fruits and vegetables that the rest of the nation eats all Spring are June bearing, here – and it was a late Spring, …
Cook extra meat, I blithely say. Brown ground meat, fill a slow cooker with chicken, cook a whole pork shoulder (with seasoning!) and then freeze the meat to use later. Fill your freezer with zip bags and little plastic containers of cooked meat, so you …
To start with, casseroled chicken isn’t exactly what we think of as a chicken casserole… There may or may not be rice, there may or may not be vegetables, (there isn’t a can of condensed soup or a potato chip in sight.) The key is …
Most of the year, I like my steel cut oatmeal for breakfast. It’s comforting, filling, nourishing, and delicious. And muffins are a lovely treat, which I’ve been enjoying the last few months. Sometimes I even pull myself together enough to make waffles or pancakes! Most …