Is finally booked! No thanks to the travel agent. If you are considering using one for anything, DON'T! Anyway, Argentina! We'll get to Buenos Aires for one night and stay at the Broadway All-Suites in the center of town. Then we'll fly to San Rafael, a small city in the Mendoza wine region for 3 nights and stay at a winery/estate there called the Algodon Wine Estates - we'll have a winery tour on horseback, an in-room massage, a spa day, a golf lesson, a wine tasting, etc. Then, back to BA, where we'll stay in Palermo Soho at the Glu Hotel.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Honeymoon!!!
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Huevos rojo y azul
I made up a recipe this morning. We've been making frittatas to use up veggies from our CSA box, and I usually stick with asian/mustard flavor. But today I wanted Mexican. So, to the huevos I added ancho powder, a few Tbsp of tomato sauce, what was left of our salsa (less than 1/4 c. - wish we would have had more, or maybe a spicer salsa) and s&p. Cooked the veggies (onion, zucchini, parsley, chives, garlic - we usually like kale or spinach, too, but had to use what we had from the CSA box) in ancho and s&p then added the egg mixture and cheese. We only had tiny amounts of 3 different cheeses, so we used a teeeeny bit of cheddar, some parm, and finally, what made the frittata, some smoked blue cheese. Yum! The tomato sauce and salsa made the eggs rojo (red), and the blue cheese accounts for the azul (blue). Good thing we're doing Rosetta Stone so I could appropriately name this dish!
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
I want this dress
(and, by the way, reading people magazine makes me feel dumb. the only reason i read it today and saw this picture was because cnn.com had a link to a people article about daniel radcliffe.)
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Red White and Bru
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Somebody must hate us...
First of all, wow! I didn't even tell anyone except my mom that we kind of started blogging again (if you can call posting twice in a month blogging...) and we somehow got 6 comments on the last post. So I'll try to post a little more often now, if I can - I started my summer job two weeks ago and its quite a commute, so I'm not sure how often I'll get to this. But since now I know that I have to keep you all informed about the CSA box, I'll have a little motivation!
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Community Supported Agriculture
This year's garden is finally in. I'm writing this on Steve's computer - my old computer - which is ridiculously slow, so no pictures of the garden yet. I'll post them when I upload them onto my Mac. But we have 3 kinds of tomatos (2 regular grape tomatos, a white cherry tomato, and a green zebra cherry tomato), jalepeno, zucchini, cucumber, peas, kale, onions, and horseradish. As for herbs, we have 2 kinds of basil, parsley, oregano, rosemary, and mint. I still want to find cinnamon basil and catnip.
You would think that all those veggies would be enough. But no. We also suscribed to a CSA this year. I read about them in "In Defense of Food," and then found one online. Basically, a local farm takes suscriptions for the season and then delivers you a box of veggies each week. We got a suscription through November, so I'm really excited about the fall vegetables, as well as about getting things I've never had before, like rudabaga and dandelion greens. The CSA winds up being less than $30/week, and we get a huge amount of stuff - enough that we'll have to consciously make an effort to eat all of them. Plus, we're getting chemical-free produce - so its more nutritious than veggies grown with the NPK fertilizers. And we're supporting a local farm that encourages diverse farming, instead of farming acre after acre of one type of plant, which decreases soil health.
Today was our first CSA pickup. As its early in the season, we got A LOT of leafy vegetables...
spinach, collards, dandelion greens, red leaf lettuce, bok choi, scallions, and parsley. We're definitely excited to have this box, but it is a little repetitive to have so many leafy greens - we'll be having salads and chicken on top of wilted greens a lot this week! Tonight I experimented with the dandelion greens. I cooked up some pasta, and then sauteed garlic and a scallion from the box, added the dandelion, and then later added sliced cherry tomatoes and mushrooms. A little salt, pepper, and parmesean to top it off, and it was a pretty decent meal. The dandelion was a little bitter, though. I wish I had had a lemon to cut the bitterness with some acidity. Next time.
-D
Thursday, April 30, 2009
New Post
Its been a while since our last post. Lately I've been thinking about starting to post again. Now seemed like a good time to start, since I'm sitting in my last class of the year listening to other students' review questions which mean nothing to me because I haven't started studying for the final yet.
Its likely that no one will ever read this post - its been 8 months since the last post, and I think our regular readers (all 3 of them??) stopped checking the blog.
Anyway, thats all for now. Just thought I'd blog to say that I'm thinking about starting to blog again.
-D