animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 

too many vegetables

Between the CSA and my garden, I have an overabundance of vegetables in the fridge. Besides trying to squeeze in a bunch of veggies at dinnertime, I’ve been processing things for later use as well. So far this year, I’ve frozen a few containers of garlic scape pesto, made pickles, …

the blvd

Someone gave us a gift certificate for the Boulevard Grill so we went there for supper Thursday night. We got our old standbys–I had the crab cake sandwich and Brian had a Philly cheese steak. I guess we should have ordered something more expensive because we didn’t use up the …

12 hour shipping

Due to our new exercise program, I needed to buy a pair of tennis shoes. I had an old pair, but I wear them while gardening, so I didn’t want to wear them in the house. I ordered the shoes late Monday night from Zappos with the expectation that I’d …

surf n turf

We had our somewhat annual surf n turf party on Saturday. I say somewhat because we couldn’t agree on a date last year, so we had to skip it, but we did have it for a couple consecutive years before that. The menu was similar to prior years: king crab …

shredding: day 3

Don’t worry–I’m not going to blog about every day of the 30 Day Shred, just the ones worth mentioning in my opinion. Yesterday, I had to take a day off. I was just too sore to exercise. I definitely overdid it on the first day. I probably should have just …