Hey y'all
it's been a long time, work started, my mairrage ended, all hell broke loose, therapy is underway, my life has exploded like the cherry pie my sister in law once dropped on the floor, glass pie plate and all.. well, that's overdoing it a bit, but if you've read any of my blog so far you know i'm prone to purple prose...

i actually have been cooking quite a bit, as we are full into winter i've been chowing on greens, turnips, potatoes, hot meat dishes, lots of biscuits, pancakes, wintry things. i have a box delivered every two weeks from Farm Fresh To You, a farm in Capay California, and that's been amazing.

i come home from a harsh thursday and it's like christmas and hannukah all wrapped up in one- ....a box bursting with kiwis, tangerines, fennel, leeks, spuds, beets... it's just amazing, i highly reccomend it.. it's only about twenty bucks a box... i still go on foot to the farmers market most saturdays on center street, but this way i don't need to get so much, and i can focus on what's not in the box- bacon from fatted calf or whatver.

a farmer's market friend and i have been doing something fun: i skip the market, she goes, and she brings her catch to me and i have to cook something with whatever she brings. a little iron chef without the pressure or competition, i suggest you try this, it's cool... invite someone for dinner and have them bring you 2 or 3 surprise things, then you cook them together, or try to figure out how to blend them into a couple of dishes, and then you buy a couple things to surprise them with, and they cook those... i call it Improv Kitchen Throwdown... try it and let me know how yours comes out....