Need to Shovel (More) Snow? Whip Up a Little Garten!

It took me a pot of chicken soup, six large crab cakes and a pan of the Barefoot Contessa’s Salted Caramel Brownies to avoid shoveling the driveway today. I could have squeezed in an apple pie but I prefer to do back-breaking work in the daylight. “You haven’t shoveled yet,” asked my husband during an […]

Greens! Greens! Greens! (And a Little Yellow)

This week’s CSA basket from R & C Farms boasts red and green leaf lettuce, scallions, red and golden beets, some sweeeeeet sugar snap peas and “flushed” broccoli. Say what? According to farmer Cindy Simons, the broccoli florets look a little yellow because of the torrential rains this week. Like we need another reason to be […]

A Good Appetite for a Culinary Girl Crush

Today’s confession: I have a major girl crush on Melissa Clark. The flame-haired culinista writes the “A Good Appetite” column in the New York Times‘ Dining section on Wednesday, but I’m such a groupie, I check out her column on my iPad days before the recipes appear in the Times. I skip right over Mark Bittman […]