Jacky Hackett: Cooking, eating, reading, riding my bike that goes nowhere — living my best porch life.
This week’s CSA box was a manageable size, thank goodness since I am still playing catchup from last week. Not to mention the tomatoes and peppers coming out of my garden. The goodies in this week’s box won’t last long… Slicing Tomatoes Black Cherry Tomatoes Specialty Tomatoes Tomatillos Hot Peppers Onions Eggplant Lettuce The black…
Things that come in threes — good news, bad news, death. Good eats? Yep, at last that was the case this week in my kitchen anyway. First off, I finally gave into the green monster craze. I had some baby spinach on it’s last leg so the timing was right. There are a bazillion different…
So many good vegetables, so little time. I am having a rough time keeping up on the great vegetables each week. I despise them going to waste so I am really making an effort to avoid that from happening. I had a ton of basil still left from last week’s box and I already have…
When life hands you tomatoes make Bloody Marys.
The fresh tomatoes in the CSA box of course make me so happy but so does getting lettuce again. Juliet Tomatoes Slicing Tomatoes Specialty Tomatoes Eggplant Hot Peppers Lettuce Basil Nothing going to waste this week. The tomatoes and peppers were of course used in the peach and pepper recipes, any leftover tomatoes along with…
This past weekend I finally made it to our local farmer’s market. The four year-old wasn’t hard to convince to ride along, her knows there are fresh donuts at the end of the trip. I was pleasantly surprised there was no line! Peaches is what I was after, though I could not pass up the…
Purple, red, green — this week’s CSA box was gorgeous… And the scent of the basil was to die for, and we got tons of it. There were a lots of goodies this week, here is what it included… Juliet Tomatoes Sun Gold Tomatoes Slicing Tomatoes Eggplant Broccoli Green Pepper Lettuce Basil I am so…
I made enough lentils this week to feed a small village, not sure what the heck I was thinking. After eating them all week I still had a good amount left. Lentil burgers it is! Red onions were stored from our pre-vacation CSA box that I wanted to get used up. I was hoping to…
We are on the road and missed weeks 15 & 16. Our friend and her family enjoyed the CSA goodies while we were gone. We missed the start of the tomatoes, but there are plenty more of those coming. We did dig into the vegetables in oil that I made a few weeks back. They…
We are halfway through our summer vacation. Two weeks of vacation is a dream. Though the first week of our trip was no leisurly vacation though let me tell you. We ventured through the battle fields of Gettysburg, visited Heryshey PA, walked all over NYC, saw Plymouth Rock, walked thre Freedom Trail in Boston, hunted some withes in Salem…