This little piggy went to market. And this little piggy stayed home. This little piggy had smoked salmon. And this little piggy had none. This is how we say the nursery rhyme in our house. Always have. Because for our family, smoked salmon from THE Fish Guys (and now a Fish Gal too) is where […]
One Leaf Farm
The Fish Guys
“The Fish Guys are up in the fan,” Baby Bird stated matter-of-factly a month or so ago, at dinner. “What?!” “The Fish Guys are up in the fan. Look,” she said again pointing to our kitchen ceiling. Ah, the minds of children. Since that evening, it seems that The Fish Guys have taken up residence […]
Taking the ‘can’ out of Cannellini beans
Last Friday, while trawling my neighborhood farmers market for farm-fresh goodies, I spotted them: shriveled, damp looking bean pods, cream with rosy highlights. Cannellini shelling beans! Not a very attractive looking bean on the outside. But inside–heaven. Cannellini beans themselves are white kidney-shaped beans, with a pale green to pale yellow pod that may be […]
One leaf is all it takes
I love vegetables. When I was a little girl my father had an enormous garden behind our home in upstate New York. He grew it all: carrots, corn, asparagus, raspberries, tomatoes, lettuce, onions, cabbage, cucumbers, radishes, dill, peas, beans, squash, pumpkins, rhubarb, apples, pears. And we ate it all. Some of my earliest memories are […]