At the Alexandria Markets: We’ve returned to our Alexandria farmers markets after our recent travels, and witnessed that unequivocal sign of seasons changing from summer to fall in the peaches and tomatoes being nudged out by apples, pears, and early winter squash. Now I don’t know if there’s some sort of zucchini shortage in Northern […]
At Market: Simple Tomato Gazpacho
September 14th, 2009 · 13 Comments
Tags: at market · cooking with kids · cooking with toddlers · NoVA Locavore · one local harvest · recipes · soup · weeknight meals
Preserving Summer: Tomato Jam
August 31st, 2009 · 10 Comments
Our Potomac Vegetable Farms CSA bag was full of ripe summer tomatoes last week, after a slow and soggy start to tomato season here in Virginia. Unfortunately, we were leaving town the day after our pick-up. Of course, that was also the day we got the notice that the boxes of surplus canning tomatoes were […]
Tags: cooking with kids · CSA · preserving · recipes · tomato · vegetables
Cooking Julia with Kids: Blueberry Clafouti (and a film review)
August 7th, 2009 · 12 Comments
The new film Julie & Julia opens tonight, and if you have even a passing interest in food and cooking I highly suggest you catch it. If you haven’t seen the trailer (or book or blog), it’s a Nora Ephron film about a girl, Julie Powell, who decides to cook and blog her way through […]
Tags: at market · cooking with kids · dessert · foodietots reviews · recipes
Bourbon Cherry Cobbler
July 10th, 2009 · 130 Comments
A Southern Cherry Cobbler Recipe: The sour cherries we bought from Toigo last weekend went into a July 4th cobbler. I started with a recipe from 101 Cookbooks, the wonderful blog whose author is also responsible for the “Super Natural Recipe Search” button you may have noticed over on my left sidebar. I made a […]
Tags: at market · baking · cooking with toddlers · dessert · grains · one local summer · organic · recipes
Holiday Treats from Jennifer of The Toddler Cafe
December 22nd, 2008 · Comments Off on Holiday Treats from Jennifer of The Toddler Cafe
The fourth installment in our foodie family Holiday Treats series is with Jennifer Carden, of Novato, California, who writes at The Toddler Cafe and has published a book by the same name. You can also follow her on Twitter, where she wrote recently of her daughter, “Kidlet is frosting my b-day cupcakes scooping out the […]
