Summer means gardening and most gardens have tomato plants. There is nothing better than home-grown DIY food for the table. Tomatoes can be used in every meal you have in... Continue Reading
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Let’s Talk Veggies Eat your vegetables! Isn’t that what you always heard growing up? Do you do that now? Do you have your children eating vegetables? What is the honest... Continue Reading
Avocados ! Avocados are a creamy, healthy fruit. Yes, I said fruit! You can use avocados to jazz up so many of your recipes. They make for a delicious snack.... Continue Reading
Ethiopian Summer Experiment 6 Weekend Cookery: Learning to Trust Myself Last Saturday, fresh from our successful field trip to Habesha the night before, I got to work on a new... Continue Reading
Ethiopian Summer Experiment 5 Friday Night Field Trip (with postscript: The Revenge of the Inedible Fish) Last Friday night, Charlie and I ventured out to a delightful dinner at Habesha... Continue Reading
Ethiopian Summer Experiment-4 Saturday Night Supper: A Hit and a Miss For our Saturday night dinner I planned a two-course meal; a main dish of fish tibs with fasoulia on... Continue Reading
Ethiopian Summer Experiment-3 Saturday Accidental Delight Today I had planned to try my hand at a tempting yeshiro (chickpea wat), but it was not to be. I had gone grocery... Continue Reading
Sunday Night Supper- Doro Wat (Spicy Chicken Stew) The Ethiopian word “wat” means “stew,” and usually a spicy one. Wats can be made from beef, lamb, poultry, chickpeas, zucchini; you... Continue Reading
My First Guest Blogger Dr. Susan Gunn! Introduction: May 28, 2017 This is the first of what I hope will be a series of blog posts on my summer experiment... Continue Reading