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I went to the farmers’ market yesterday, as I do most firsts and third Sundays of the month. We made it home with our usual bounty of greens from Siembra Tres Vidas, arugula and tatsoi, plus bok choi from Fernando and Nancy’s stand. This week we got to try a little piquant green that caught my eye [...]
Summer is here. Ninety-degree plus temperatures have arrived, along with dust from the Saharan air layers that cross the Atlantic. Whereas by this time last year I was lamenting the non-stop rain, it would be a more than welcome these days. The grass is browning, the potted parsley wilting, my car is still filthy, and [...]
Every other Sunday – the first and third of the month – local farmers pitch their tents at la Placita Roosevelt, on the Hato Rey neighborhood of San Juan. I’ve tried to showcase their produce and baked goods on several posts, focusing on new (for me) items. This time around, I would like to highlight [...]
Mealy apples… blegh. Few things are more disappointing than biting into an apple expecting a crisp, juicy mouthful only to find you got a sandy, tasteless one. Even though I try very hard to pick good apples by smelling them and tapping to check for hollowness, they can’t all be perfect. If there’s an element [...]
There are few things I enjoy more than putting together a trip. I geek out and prepare Excel spreadsheets for everything, from schedules, transportation minutiae, to outfits. On my first road trip with E back in 2006, I compiled a whole binder filled with Google Maps printouts, winery maps, reservation confirmations, and had to stop [...]
After completing several projects for work during the spring, I was awarded points to redeem at a ‘rewards store’. There were so many things to chose from! My very inexpensive plastic immersion blender was already starting to show signs of age, so I opted to get a much powerful stainless steel one with my points. [...]
Green (unripe) tomatoes are considered an end-of-summer or early fall crop in most of the Northern hemisphere. Late season tomatoes are picked while green because otherwise the changing weather conditions would spoil them. In the American South, however, they are so popular they are harvested while green all through the summer. During our trip, we [...]
After receiving the warmest welcome for showing up after four months of FFwD hiatus, I’m already skipping this week’s recipe? Bad Adriana! I hope these three summer sides make up for it. I do have plenty of vegetables on hand for this week’s stone soup and it will get done. I even have a secret [...]
Stone soup - we have all heard in one form of another the folk tale of the traveling family that arrives to a village with an empty cooking pot. The family finds some water, fills the pot and drops a stone into it. They start a fire and set the pot down, the steam attracting [...]
For how long can one hold to that ‘just came from vacation’ glow? Even though it’s been little over a month since we came back, I am wishing I had more of it left over. I didn’t realize how much I missed the places and the foods I enjoyed in Savannah and Charleston until I [...]
