Archive for May, 2010
Oi! I am SO glad it’s the weekend! I had a very long and grinding work week, so tonight I whipped up a feast of southern-style comfort food: BBQ tofu, gluten free cornbread, sauteed collard greens, a giant huge enormous salad, and plain ol’ peas + corn. Oh, and peach iced tea. YUM! That and [...]
Damian and I like to start our warm-weather weekends right, with our ritual trip to the Saturday morning Farmer’s Market. We have this ongoing challenge (it begins anew each annual market cycle) where every week, along with all our produce staples, we choose one unique. We try to choose something special and in-season, but it [...]
No, I’m not referring to the recently legalized Absinthe (yum!), and I’m not even making some eco-allusion to socially responsible beverages. Nope, I’m being quite literal here: I’m really talking about drinking. Drinking things that are green. In the past I’ve written about green smoothies, and since then my adoration has only grown. I start [...]
The time has come for backyard adventures, for glorious dirt-digging and sowing seeds and dreaming of all the bounty to come. Last year I went all out, utilizing a variety of small-scale garden techniques to maximize my plantable ‘acreage’, without sacrificing the play space for the beasties. It was mostly successful and so much fun, [...]
Just a quick reminder my dears, this coming Friday is Bike To Work Day – the third Friday in May. This is, of course, in honor of bike month which spans the entire month of May. And serendipitously, all of this relates to the Monthly Mission this May, to drive less! Alas, I work from [...]
