It’s officially summer here. It’s sunny, it’s 80 degrees at 11am in the morning, my farm share is starting next week (!) and my husband can barely stand to go outside. Yep, officially summer. Every summer I seem to have a meal that I make on a regular basis, far more than anything else. When [...]
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My Favorite Frijoles
I have been inspired. By a delicious, delectable, delightful dish from Edible Aria: frijoles rojas. Now, this wasn’t by a long shot the first time I’d seen this dish but the pictures looked soooo good I could not resist. I know what you’re thinking: Lauren, dear, you are so magnificent. How do you ever find [...]
Leek Onion Rings
Looking for something to do with the leeks from your farm share? Already tried the uber-delicious French leek gratin? Looking for something casual to eat alongside that BBQ beef sandwich? How about onion rings? Well I guess that’s leek rings. I tried them tonight (alongside a bbq beef sandwich), adapting a recipe from Alton Brown. [...]
Joie de vivre: bacon, onions, butter, potatoes, goat cheese, mushrooms, cream and wine
Tonight, I made gratin de poireaux and steak aux champignons. First, I love the word “champignon.” It is one of my all time favorite French words, along with “l’ananas,” “raplapla,” and “pamplemousse.” A champignon is a mushroom. The others are pineapple, wiped out, and grapefruit, respectively. I mean, come on. These words are fantastic. And [...]
Potato, Squash and Arugula Quesadillas: the non-recipe recipe
We got a good box from the farm share this week—purple potatoes, squash, peppers, a giant head of celery and even a giant one and a half pound tomato that I have fondly named Big Al (after my svelte but otherwise impressive grandfather): To use up some of the potatoes and squash, as well as [...]
Farm Share Goodies: Sept 4-Purple Mashed Potatoes
I got a fantastic little kick out of my farm share this week: potatoes. Sounds boring, I know, and to the average person, it probably is. After all, I’ve gotten potatoes from the farm share before. But these potatoes were purple. And while I knew they existed, I had never actually had one in my [...]
Green Goddess Potato Salad…
…for when those ribeyes you grilled just aren’t fatty enough. The inspiration from this came from FoodTV’s 5 Ingredient Fix, during an episode of which the host made a side dish called “Green Goddess Rice.” Josh and I decided to grill steaks tonight and were thinking of a side dish. He ingeniously suggested using up [...]
Tomato, Tomahto, Totally Tasty
…I like alliteration. Anyway, it was a terribly rainy day today and Josh and I are both sick with the flu. We’ve been on the couch or in the bed pretty almost all day. Not exactly pleasant. But I knew what would perk us up—a giant heaping platter of our favorite home made chicken enchiladas [...]
Farm Share Goodies: June 30
It’s farm share day! As mentioned before, every Tuesday we get a new delicious delivery of delectable delights (alliteration is fun!) and produce from Needle-Lane farms, delivered to one of my newest favorite specialty stores, Morgan and York. This week’s box contains:
Farm Share Goodies: June 23
So this is the 4th week of our farm share deliveries. Josh and I decided last fall that this year, we wanted to partake in a CSA on the recommendation of some of Josh’s coworkers. Lucky for us, there are several farms in the area, and all over Michigan. In fact, there aren’t just produce [...]



