Everyone's bracing for Hurricane Irene. I went to the grocery store to stock up like everyone else on the Eastern Seaboard. Boy, was that stupid. At the deli counter, I pulled ticket number 69 and they were only at number 19. After preparing a huge dinner tonight for 11 people and shopping for a weekend's worth of food for 11 people, we've now learned that our family from Baltimore isn't going to make the trip due to the weather forecast. So, a weekend's worth of cook outs and camp outs and dinners out and birthday … [Read more...]
Friday-Food-Frenzy – Fun with Feta
August 12, 2011 By 3 Comments
My husband grew up with a strange eating "disorder." He only ate cheese for the first 12 years of his life. No joke. He'd go to McDonald's and order a "cheeseburger hold the meat." He'd eat grilled cheese for breakfast, lunch and dinner. At a young age, he was offered $100 just to eat part of a Maryland crab cake and he flat out refused. Lucky for him (and me) he outgrew his cheesy love affair before he went to college. However, that didn't stop me from spotting cans of Cheez Wiz spray cheese in his dorm room closet. He's come a looong … [Read more...]
Cooking with Sweet Summer Corn: A-Maize-Ing
August 10, 2011 By 2 Comments
Besides being my birthday month, August reminds me of the bountiful sweet corn harvest. I’ve watched many of the farms transform themselves from barren dirt-covered fields to boastful symmetrical rows of the lushest, rigid corn stalks jutting up towards the sky. Lucky for me, all of the farmer’s markets on the east end of Long Island have set up their “Sweet Corn Here” signs to lure consumers (like me) to check out their selection of ears. Corn ear pyramids piled high on tables decorate the stalls, completing the tail-end summer crop … [Read more...]
Friday-Food-Frenzy: Keen on Peaches
July 29, 2011 By 2 Comments
My 6-year old son just acquired a taste for peaches. Up until now, I'm fairly certain he was freaked by their fuzzy skin. However, with our frequent fruit purchases at the Green Thumb, our local organic farm stand, he's warmed up to them. His peachy turning point was last week. My daughter and I were cutting all sorts of fresh summer fruits to put into our White Wine Sangria. Thinking he was grabbing some apple chunks, he popped a pile of fruit into his mouth only to be pleasantly surprised that in fact, he had just eaten some deliciously … [Read more...]
