Savvy Eats

We hosted a taco party on Friday!  For more photos, visit the Savvy Eats Facebook page. There have been some great posts catching my eye in the blogosphere as of late. Time to share the link love! 1. Dinner: A Love Story is now at the top of my “to-buy” list! 2.  Grub Street put together [...]

I’ve been spoiled by fresh blueberries. Every summer, I fill bucket after bucket with the little blue balloons of fruit at the U-Pick farms, barely restraining myself from employing a ‘pick-one-eat-one’ policy. Aside from this being unfair to the farms, I remind myself, I don’t want to turn into a Violet Beauregarde blueberry-person being rolled [...]

“I have a problem,” I told Dan guiltily as I climbed out of the car. I had just made a trip to the garden center for some topsoil and mulch and I got a little…sidetracked. He sighed, “how much basil did you buy?” “Only 1 this time, I swear!” This brought my basil plant count [...]

Living in a 120+ year old house, we don’t have the best insulation. Nor do we have central air conditioning.  Luckily, we’ve come up with a handful of strategies to keep the house relatively cool in the summers. We sleep with the windows open, bracing a box fan between the sill and edge of the [...]

Dan and I competed in the Finger Lakes International Dragon Boat Festival with his company team again this weekend.  We paddled as hard as we could, yelling to keep in sync at times, exerting ourselves far too thoroughly to make any noise at all at others.  Sadly, our 500 meter races times of 2:56, 2:56 and [...]

I don’t spend a lot of time cooking in the summer.  I can and preserve and blanch and freeze, but very little cooking happens.  Most of the time, it is just too darn hot to cook inside, and I’m too busy doing summery things: gardening, cycling, hiking, keeping score at Dan’s baseball games and going [...]

Photo: Lakeside stop during our fourth of July bike ride.  More photos from the holiday on the Savvy Eats Facebook page. There have been some great posts catching my eye in the blogosphere as of late. Time to share the link love! 1.  These paper hot air balloons would be a fun party decoration. 2.  I [...]

Since we bought our house in the winter, we weren’t aware of the summertime treasure that came with the backyard: wild black raspberry bushes.  They were overgrown and sprawling, but we decided it must be because the house was vacant for nearly a year, and there was nobody to maintain the yard. Whenever I picked [...]