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Arugula, a mustardy green originally from the Mediterranean, is the latest harvest from our container garden!  Sometimes referred to as roquette or rocket, it makes the perfect addition to salads or pesto. I spotted an arugula pasta salad recipe in the June issue of Everyday Food magazine, and I thought it would be a great [...]

Bright, red radishes were the first official vegetable (basil was disqualified, on grounds of being an herb) to be harvested from our container garden!  As the vegetable with the shortest seed to harvest time (a quick 3 weeks from germination), I was excited to get cooking with radishes. I’ve never been a huge fan of [...]

After spotting a basil plant at Trader Joes – for the lovable price of $2.99 – homemade pizza was definitely in order. We already planted basil (from seed) in our container garden, but it has a few more months until it’s usable. My favorite recipe that uses a lot of basil is the classic Pizza [...]

If strawberries are the rock stars of June produce, then rhubarb is totally the little brother.  Whether it’s with strawberries and raspberries or with ginger, like the Brits, I’ve always been a huge rhubarb fan.  So I was excited to find some growing in the wild, (otherwise known as the Soybean’s yard).  And since free is a pretty good price, [...]

I’ve been considering going vegan for a while (and #67 on my 101 Things in 1001 Days list is:  Go vegan for 1 month).  So I decided to go vegan for a week instead.  Being vegan isn’t that much of a change for me since I’m already a vegetarian, but it’s slightly more inconvenient.  The [...]

You wouldn’t believe how easy it is to not go to the same restaurant more than once for one month while traveling!  Except for my time in Naxos, Greece (where I may or may not have gone to the same gyro stand and Mexican restaurant every day), I think I did fairly well at mixing [...]

I’ve pretty much been walking to the grocery store since I started traveling. ;) I probably did most of my international grocery shopping in New Zealand and Greece though. New Zealand was an easy country to carry around a food bag and actually cook in the evenings, while in Greece I was buying more snack [...]

The bad weather almost caught up to us again. It was raining as we left Franz Josef yesterday morning. We did several hiking stops during the day. One was to the blue pools, which was gorgeous, and there was even a suspension bridge. After traveling through Haast pass, we spent the night in Makarora, which [...]

What do you do during the day if you’re unemployed and homeless? Make coffee creme brulee, is what you do! I tried the Martha Stewart Coffee Creme Brulee recipe and other than the run-on sentence that I skipped, it was a simple recipe. If you understand the following sentence, please let me know (oh and [...]

The end is here! Although I still have some Incompletes, I think my first official cure went pretty well. Now I need to clean this place up, wrap up a few little projects and call it “DONE”….. until the Spring Cure? Week 8 – Throwing A Party Find a recipe Prepare your apartment the day [...]