Savvy Eats

Photo: The lead ducks from yesterday’s annual 4-H Rubber Ducks Race in Ithaca. There have been some great posts catching my eye in the blogosphere as of late. Time to share the link love! 1. Love this video of Pentatonix singing “Somebody That I Used To Know.”   2. What is the one food that [...]

I don’t quite know what brought it on, but I recently set a goal to eat at least one salad every day.  This is definitely the easiest time of year to focus on good salads– lettuce and arugula and radishes are coming into season, but not much else is.  And if you’re anything like me, [...]

Refrigerating: Eggs will keep for much longer if refrigerated than if kept at room temperature, as they often are in other parts of the world.  In the United States, eggs are typically washed much more thoroughly than those in Europe.  While this is fine from a hygienic standpoint, it also means that the eggs’ natural [...]

When I was little, I had a rock collection.  It started with a box of colorful polished stones from my great-grandfather and trilobite fossils from the parks near our house in Cincinnati.  With every Girl Scout camping trip (with its natural fossil-hunting expedition) and every visit to a museum gift shop, it would grow.  Whenever [...]

There have been some great posts catching my eye in the blogosphere as of late. Time to share the link love! 1.  These whole wheat chocolate cake donuts from Brandi look amazing! 2.  Some important things to remember this week. 3.  A beautiful piece from Ruth Reichl on making better hummus. 4.  I adore these [...]

Your Time, Your Money, Your Meals. Cook It Forward. This week: one pound of pasta + a dozen eggs. Eggs and Pasta Monday: Parsley and Tomato Pasta with a Side Salad Tuesday: Scrambled Eggs with Parmesan and Tomatoes with Toast and Fruit Wednesday: Pasta Leftovers with Side Salad Thursday: Individual Frittatas with salad OR toast [...]

Yesterday was Tuesday.  More importantly, yesterday was the 10th of the month, which means that everything at our co-op was 10% off. So at lunch, it was off to the co-op, podcasts from my iPod helping the mile-long walk fly by. I felt ridiculous, grinning and laughing to myself as I listened to the most [...]

We spent Saturday morning at the Farmers’ Market, the first of the season.  They have put down a new layer of gravel in the parking lot since we were there last fall, this time with larger rocks than usual.  The stones were loose, not yet packed down by cars carrying market-going families, forcing us to [...]