Rhubarb Times Two

My love of rhubarb is well-documented on this blog, and I’m not the only one.  There have been several great rhubarb recipes in the blogosphere recently, like Modern Domestic”s rhubarb polenta cake and strawberry rhubarb jam, and Fessenden Farmstead’s rhubarb leather.  (In related news, the prez has been enjoying rhubarb pie). As for me, I’ve [...]

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Summer, Pickled and Canned

My little garden doesn’t produce a lot of any one thing, so I had a small and very assorted harvest from my garden last Friday.  A couple of baby carrots, a Red Torpedo onion, a shallot, some mild jalapeños, a banana pepper, some green currant tomatoes, a baby chioggia beet, and a few Mexican Sour [...]

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Sunday Roundup: Updates & Week in Review

Traffic at this blog jumped this week – thanks for reading, all!  And thanks for the comments.  There are some updates on a few of this week’s posts, so I thought I’d do them all at once here. According to the recipient of the giveaway tomatoes I wrote about on Friday, the key factor helping [...]

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Rhubarb Syrup and Cocktails

Rhubarb takes me back to my childhood in Olympia, WA, when we would make rhubarb cobbler using stalks harvested from a prolific plant in our backyard.  The Pacific Northwest is ideal rhubarb territory, according to a New York Times article from a few years ago, but rhubarb definitely has a following here in the Mid-Atlantic [...]

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Sunday Photos: Dupont Farmers’ Market

Okay, there’s no getting around it.  The following photos are pure food porn, taken this morning at the Dupont Circle Freshfarm Market.

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A Locavore Ladies’ Night

On Sunday I had a bunch of girlfriends over to my tiny apartment and cooked a dinner for them that happened to be about 98% locally sourced.   We started off with kale chips, which are très chic right now, according to the foodie blogosphere.  I also make tzatziki with dill and chives from my garden [...]

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