What’s the French for Encore?
One of the events in Boston every summer is the Bastille Day party at the French Library. We’d always heard that it was great fun. They close off part of Marlborough street and have...
Category: food
Gumbo Z’Herbes
We’ve started getting a share from Wilson’s new CSA this summer. Last week we ended up with a lot of greens. Between the bunches of kale and chard, the leafy tops of the beets,...
Grilled Monkfish
We got our last delivery of the spring CSF today – monkfish. Monkfish is kind of nice. It comes with the head already taken off (you really don’t want to see the head), and...
Braised Beef Shanks with Root Vegetables
The February issue of Better Homes & Gardens came, and it included several great looking recipes for cooking meat on the bone. It included this recipe for Beef Shanks with Mushrooms and Olives. It...
Shrimp Scampi
One of the nice things about belonging to a Community Supported Fishery (CSF) is getting exposed to things you would never try on your own. I’ve never been a big shrimp person, but when...
Cooks Source
We post a lot of recipes on this blog, so we’ve been following this week’s Cooks Source scandal with interest. If you haven’t heard the story, there was a pretty good story about it...
Dr. Seuss Pie
This tasty treat is easy to make, and a great dessert for when your mother is out of town. This recipe was created the first night our mother was gone. Dr. Seuss Pie 1...
Corn Cob Psychometrics
At dinner the other night, we were discussing the two different styles of eating corn on the cob. Some people go straight along the rows like an old typewriter, while other people go around...
