His Lordship’s father has quite the green thumb, and grows a variety of fruit in a backyard micro-orchard. Each fall, he has a bumper crop of figs, which he painstakingly stems, halves, and dries. Since fig season immediately precedes His Lordship’s birthday, around this time each year we receive a care package bearing a card [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Soup for a Blustery Day
Posted in Celebrations, Main Courses, Uncategorized, tagged apple, spice, squash on October 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Despite my love of fall produce, especially cranberries, for some reason I’m not quite ready for autumn just yet. Ready or not, the temperatures are dropping, the rain and wind have definitely arrived, and so have the seasonal offerings at the market.
Since I can’t hold it back, this rich, just barely gingery bisque of kabocha [...]
Breakfast on the Run and on the Cheap
Posted in Breakfast, Snacks, Sunday Night Baking, tagged cashew, cranberry, granola, honey, maple, oats on October 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
You’d think I’d have more time on my hands now that I’m a student, but if the past two weeks are any indication, you’d be wrong. I’d forgotten how students don’t really have down time, how you’re constantly shuttling between campus and off-campus, and how all off-campus time is time that could and ideally should [...]
