I made dinner last night and it tasted pretty terrible. Now, I like to pride myself on being a pretty darn great cook. I watch cooking shows, I try new ingredients and techniques. I can even cook some great meat, regardless of the fact that I don’t eat it. But some days the food I make just plain sucks. Last night the kids were screaming, M was sick, I was tired, and I was evidently just not in the cooking zone. After the first …

I created this quesadilla last night by changing around a plain old zucchini quesadilla recipe that I’ve used before. I think the addition of shrimp, and the few other additions, make it the best quesadilla I’ve ever made. I called them Thai-style because of the addition of basil, combined with cilantro. Reminds me of Thai food. And don’t skip the rice-wine vinegar or you’ll be sorry. Yum.

Ever since M was around 3 years old, he has been a very picky eater. Funny thing is, before that point, I used to brag about how many foods he would eat with relish. Starting with avocado, M would plow through servings of broccoli, kale, and spinach with the kind of energy most kids only direct towards cake icing. It all changed around age 3, for no reason that I can peg. So when he saw all the colorful veggies that I brought home from the farm the other day, …

So J helps feed the cats their dry food, with M nicely supervising. However, she seemed to have reserved a small handful herself and was found 2 minutes later sitting on the couch and munching.
‘Me eat cat food.’

We joined a CSA at a local farm recently and have been enjoying our super-fresh, peak of season produce. CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture. It’s basically a subscription to produce – just like paying a subscription fee and getting a magazine every month, we paid a subscription fee and get fresh produce every week for 6 months.
The farm is a family-owned farm and they were nice enough to invite us for a farm tour the other day. We got a look at where our food comes …