Inspiration and Ideas: We have lots of leftovers from last night’s Father’s Day feast including: blueberry basil turkey burgers, potato salad, black bean salad, green salad, mac & cheese, grape pie, & pavlova. My left-over-disappearing-machine, aka Alex, is traveling to Connecticut this week. I am terribly jealous. I want to travel, don’t want to single parent, and have no plans this week, except… I am teaching Jam Canning on Tuesday evening at Wild Goose. Space [...]

Influences: Pi Day Monday! I’ll post a linky and hope you will join in the fun with a pi/pie/pies story or recipe St. Patrick’s Day Thursday Big portions of pork, chicken, rice, and beans leftovers from a weekend party Request from a friend for my homemade mac and cheese Teaching Charcuterie class Tuesday at Franklin Park Conservatory (Call and see if there are spots remaining if you want to eat sausage and bacon with us!) [...]

I have an unnatural obsession with using up leftovers.  Even though the chickens now eat most of our food scraps, I still hate to waste.  All that effort to source ingredients and cook them well just shouldn’t end up in the chicken bin or the trash in my opinion. I find myself often making leftover cakes.  Maybe one of you can come up with a more clever and appetizing name. It starts with a few [...]

I am lazy at heart.  Want evidence of this?  How many times have you seen me post on this food blog that is run out of my own home.  Exactly. We just got back from a lunchtime ride and I wanted something fast and easy for lunch.  After taking stock of the fridge, the only things that piqued my interest were the week old leftover chicken and the shitake mushrooms from the CSA that Rachel [...]