Sweet Lil turns five today. I have no words to summarize my complex feelings about being her mother, nor reflections on her growing maturity and beauty. Where to turn, then, but to food? The setting: Mother and daughter are walking through an unfamiliar grocery store. Mother, reading list: spaghetti, Parmesan. Where’s the Parmesan? Daughter:...
Read more →In the Edible Columbus Fall 2010 edition, readers will find a Young Palates column written by me. It is all about apples and features my favorite apple farmer, Charlie Fritsch of Windy Hill Farm. Read online here. You can find print copies of Edible Columbus around the city at their advertising locations. The Hobby...
Read more →I’m over at CbusMom.com writing about Stratford Ecological Center today. Read about the working farm and visit soon – you’ll love it! PS. Have you voted today? I’m in the running to win a ticket to a conference in Asheville North Carolina and need your ten second vote for me, @racheltayse. Thanks!
It has been hot here in Ohio. And humid. A friend described the recent weather as “walking around inside someone’s mouth.” Indeed. Instead of enduring the wicked weather during the afternoon heat, I searched for indoor activities to occupy Lil’s boundless energy in the relative cool of the air conditioning. A few days ago,...
Read more →Are you mystified by canning? Seeking great sausages? Curious about cooking with children? Look no further than the Hounds in the Kitchen Fall 2010 class schedule for hands on workshops, tours, and more to excite you about the harvest season. Email me with any questions you may have. I hope to see you at...
Read more →It is afternoon, a time when summer boredom hits hardest. Lil is whiny and wants nothing to do with any of the ideas I suggest. That is, until I start working on dinner and ask if she would like to make a salad. She runs to her garden and picks what is ripe and...
Read more →Harvest season is almost upon us. Vegetables and fruits which are just now surprising us with their ripe sweetness will soon be piling in from the garden, the CSA, or the farmers market. Make the most of the bounty by putting up stores for the winter. I will lead two basic canning workshops this...
Read more →Summer is running away with my sanity, I think. I still haven’t recovered from waking every day at dawn on the canoe trip, so I’m lacking sleep. There are so many events, activities, plans, and parties that I can barely keep up with myself. In fact, I’m writing this post on OSU campus in...
Read more →Every night after cooking, gardening, parenting and teaching, I settle in to bed to read. Columbus is the home of the number one library in the nation by many measures; most of the books on my nightstand come from their nonfiction section. Below are my thoughts on three recent reads: Matthew Amster-Burton’s Hungry Monkey:...
Read more →I am excited to offer four summer day camps for kids who love to cook and eat! Each camp will be an extended edition of the weekly Kids Cook series. In an open, creative environment, kids will taste and reflect on local healthy foods. All the senses will be engaged through story, hands on...
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