Where is the dividing line between cupcake and muffin, really? Well, whatever side of the line, last night I attempted to solve my carrot surplus by baking little cakes of carroty goodness. Naturally, cream cheese frosting went on top: I used Alton Brown’s carrot cake recipe, with a few modifications. I used whole wheat pastry [...]
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Carrot Cake Muffins
Posted in Food, Recipes, tagged baking, carrot cake, carrots, cream cheese, pastry flour, Recipes on July 31, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Identify this Mystery Tomato
Posted in Gardening, tagged mystery plants, tomatoes on July 30, 2009 | 4 Comments »
A while back I went to the plant swap hosted by Washington Gardener and DC Urban Gardeners. I got a tomato start from a young woman who had brought many different varieties in little pots. Several of the pots had lost their labels, and she wasn’t sure which variety mine was, but thought it was [...]
How the garden fared in my absence
Posted in Gardening, tagged beets, brandywines, cucamelons, mexican sour gherkins, onions, pests, potatoes, squirrels, swiss chard, tomatoes, urban gardening, weeds on July 29, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Finally got out to my garden plot after 10 days away from it. It was a total weedapalooza. Morning glories and other weeds are taking over everything. And almost all of the potato vines have wilted and dried out. I don’t know if they’re getting choked by the morning glories, succumbing to late blight, or [...]
So much to forage, so little time…
Posted in foraging, tagged black caps, blackberries, hazelnuts, huckleberries, nettles, salmon berries, thimble berries, wild blackberries on July 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Last week in Olympia my mother and I went blackberry picking twice, and ended up picking something like 35 cups of berries. If we didn’t love the wild blackberry so much, we might have spared some of our picking time for the many other forageables we encountered out in the brush. As Langdon Cook at [...]
The Olympia Farmers Market
Posted in Food, tagged farmers' market, local foods, locavores, Olympia, produce on July 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I got back to DC late on Sunday, which meant I didn’t get to make my usual trip to the Dupont Circle farmers market. But I did get my market fix back home in Olympia. The Olympia Farmers Market is one of the defining cultural institutions of my hometown, and probably explains a lot of [...]
Sunday Photos: The Northwest Seafood Experience
Posted in Food, tagged clams, crab, fish, food porn, photos, razor clams, salmon, seafood, shrimp on July 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
When I’m back home in Olympia, I eat as much seafood as possible. DC does have a few good seafood restaurants, but the overall seafood scene can’t hold a candle to what’s available in a Pacific Northwest fish market. So I’ve been loading up on everything that’s in season.
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