We shamefully dissed a perfectly good vegetable earlier this season and we’d like to apologize. Mea Cupla, Kohlrabi, Mea Maxima Culpa. Fortunately, the Kohlrabi has very thick skin, which, as it turns out, is what led us astray. Sheer laziness and a ridiculous refusal to step out into the cold led me to discover that [...]
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Tips from a not-so-starving artist (A guest post from Katherine)
I first started budgeting when I was five-years-old, courtesy of a heavy metal lockbox hidden under my bed -- a tad dramatic perhaps, since the safe held 12 two dollar bills and a Barnes and Noble gift card, but it was my start. I have always loved math and budgeting, possibly because I knew early on I wanted [...]
Lessons from the summer kitchen
It's been an educational summer for Molly B and Me. We've learned that not all road side vegetable stands sell home-grown tomatoes despite their hand-lettered signs, that kale taste good steamed in pasta, but kohlrabi doesn't taste very good at all. (Note to the overly enthusiastic earth mother at the farm stand who tried to [...]
Rhubarb Torte and a perennial friendship
Rhubarb grows like a genuine friendship, perennially, wildly and occasionally untended. I made this discovery this weekend when I popped in to see my friend Jeannie, the obedient girl assigned to welcome me to the St. Therese second grade classroom more than 40 years ago. Though chunks of time sometimes pass between our visits, we still [...]
Grandpa Fey’s bean soup
On a hot summer day many years ago, we bellied up to the counter at Wilson's Ice Cream Parlor in Door County, Wisconsin. With its candy-striped awnings shading windows that look out over pristine Eagle Harbor, Wilson's could be the poster parlor for summer vacation. We watched as our grandpa, the dignified Bob Fey, placed [...]