If you aren’t already a regular Farmers Market customer, May is the month to start, at least in North Carolina. May is the month that the local farmers’ bounty really start to show up, particularly what I look forward to most every year––the arrival of FRESH LOCAL STRAWBERRIES! Because here’s the thing. I no longer … More Meatless Monday: May Farmers Market Edition #1
Asparagus is my favorite Spring vegetable. I absolutely love roasted asparagus! It’s an amazing plant as well. When you first plant it, you have to wait for 3-5 years to harvest many spears because it takes that long for its root system to get really strong. But it is a perennial plant, and can continue … More Meatless Monday, Early Spring Edition
In yesterday’s post about Easter dinner, I said I didn’t have a set tradition around Easter dinner. However, there is one Easter food tradition (besides CHOCOLATE, of course). Somewhere around Easter, we always have quiche. The reason for that is simple. When my son was younger, we always dyed Easter eggs. He has outgrown that, … More Meatless Monday, Easter Edition
The month is almost over, but we still have (well, we had it yesterday) one more holiday–Holi, which is the spring festival in India and some other Asian countries. The best-known part in the West is throwing colored powder at each other. Originally, the powders were ground from the new blossoms of the season, but … More Meatless Monday: Holi Edition
I have been totally spoiled this week! I mentioned earlier that I had a hairline fracture in my foot and was supposed to stay off my feet. I’ve been doing that as much as I can, but just taking care of daily needs ends up taking a lot of steps. But this week, several of … More Celebrations, Community, and Sababa
This year, Meatless Monday falls on the Ides of March, which was bad for Julius Caesar but usually a pretty good day for the rest of us. I decided to make something that would fit with Pi Day the day before and St. Patrick’s Day, which will happen two days from today. So my great … More Meatless Monday: St. Patrick’s/Pi Day Edition
These are the remains of the scones that got devoured warm out of the oven before I took a picture of them. But they were a circle of eight pieces originally. This is the third of my recent posts about looking back over the past year. That is because last year on March 14, 2020, … More Happy Pi Day
Although it’s a short month, February is full of holidays. The way the calendar falls this year, many of them seem packed together more closely than usual. I’m already behind on reporting about my celebration efforts to date. However, I’ll begin with yesterday’s Meatless Monday meal in honor of the Lunar New Year, usually called … More Meatless Monday: Chinese New Year Edition
Last Meatless Monday, in which I made a Kamala Harris-inspired dish, I said I was going to look into some more Caribbean cooking. So this week follows up on that post. I decided I would make a famous Cuban dish called Moros y Cristianos (basically, black beans and rice). However, I have to admit upfront … More Mostly Meatless Monday, Caribbean Edition
So we didn’t have a peaceful and uplifting inauguration this week, but there were some good things that happened this week that I wanted to mention… In Thursday’s post, I talked about all the good news surrounding the inaugural poet/star, Amanda Gorman, including her best-selling books, her modeling contract with IMG, and her upcoming poetry … More Good News Friday
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