Dave getting ready to eat his fancy stuffed pork chop There’s something I’ve been meaning to tell you.  You know all the fancy photos of the food on this site?  The ones that make it look like we live in some kind of Autumn paradise.  Or the ones that look like we spend our evenings gathered around a cozy dining room table sipping wine?  It’s all fake.  Well, the food is real, but the rest of it is...

I heard that it might actually snow over the weekend. Even though it is much much too early for snow, I suppose this means we are officially headed into the dark months. I am always lured in by the cheerful promise of the upcoming holidays. Then, after the anti-climax of New Years, I’ll find myself standing on some bleak, windy hill pretending that sledding is fun and wondering if I’ll ever be...

Sri Lankan Coconut Chicken Curry If I believed in such things, I would say I spent a former life in Southern Asia.  I have always been fascinated with this area of the world and I adore Indian cuisine.  At various times throughout my life I have tried to travel there but have always been thwarted or disrailed in one way or another (mom, if you’re reading this, I don’t mean by you).  I even tried...

When I was about 6 or 7 years old, I told my dad that pork chops were my favorite meat. I actually meant spare ribs but got the names confused. After that he would make me pork chops on the grill and happily inform me that he was making my favorite dinner. I don’t know why but I could never bring myself to tell him I had made a mistake. Thank goodness I’m a grown-up now and can have ribs whenever I...

Kohlrabi Casserole with Sausage and Fresh Thyme This is my first year eating kohlrabi, thanks to my CSA farm share.  I wonder where this vegetable has been all my life!  It’s like it just appeared out of nowhere.  I have only just begun to explore the possibilities of kohlrabi but so far I am quite taken.  Fresh, the texture and water content (though not flavor) reminds me of jicama.  You can shred...