Savvy Eats

Originally, I was going to tell you the story of my early morning gym trips.  How I get up, get dressed, drink some water and eat a little something.  How I haven’t found the right little something to snack on pre-gym, something that’s quick to prepare and eat.  Something that is simultaneously filling enough to [...]

I recently took inventory of my chest freezer and the shelves where we keep my canned goods.  As it turns out, we haven’t been eating nearly enough fruit preserves.  Or I made way too many.  Or a combination of the two.  Because I’m pretty sure we aren’t going to eat 15 half-pint jars of strawberry [...]

2013 has been a rough year so far.  One filled with doctor’s appointments and medical procedures, as we try to figure out why I feel so sick all the time. One with anxious waiting for test results and calls from doctors and next steps. New medicines that do nothing but give me terrible insomnia, and [...]

Most weeks, I sit down on Saturday or Sunday to come up with the following week’s menu.  I look through  my list of recipe ideas and everything I’ve bookmarked or Pinned.  I consider what’s in season and what main ingredients we haven’t used recently.  Usually, I’ve exhausted my fresh produce stores from the week before [...]

Dan requested chocolate fondue for dessert on Valentine’s Day.  Easy enough, I thought.  I chopped up some strawberries, pineapple, oranges and brownies for dipping, and pulled up a fondue recipe from a blogger who I tend to trust.  Except instead of rich, creamy fondue, I ended up with chocolate milk.  The chocolate to cream ratio was just way [...]

February is when I miss the summer months, the time of year filled with produce we can eat raw: tomatoes and cucumbers and lettuce and sweet peppers. The time of year when fresh herbs are abundant, ready to season any dinner. February is the darkest month of winter.  Not literally, I know; the days have [...]

I have apparently taken on the philosophy that I must “Infuse all the things!” In the past week, I’ve started big batches of both limoncello and a clementine spice liqueur. I’m already daydreaming about the next batches of strawberry vodka and new summer fruit infusions. It is just so easy: Put fruit in jar. Cover [...]

In upstate New York, Meyer lemons are a precious commodity.  They aren’t local (citrus, tea and chocolate are my key exceptions to the eat-local rule) and they seem to have a very short season. They appear in the produce section of Wegmans for two or three weeks of the year, and then they’re gone in [...]