Jacky Hackett: Cooking, eating, reading, riding my bike that goes nowhere — living my best porch life.
Things that come in threes — good news, bad news, death. Good eats? Yep, at last that was the case this week in my kitchen anyway. First off, I finally gave into the green monster craze. I had some baby spinach on it’s last leg so the timing was right. There are a bazillion different…
So many good vegetables, so little time. I am having a rough time keeping up on the great vegetables each week. I despise them going to waste so I am really making an effort to avoid that from happening. I had a ton of basil still left from last week’s box and I already have…
When life hands you tomatoes make Bloody Marys.
The fresh tomatoes in the CSA box of course make me so happy but so does getting lettuce again. Juliet Tomatoes Slicing Tomatoes Specialty Tomatoes Eggplant Hot Peppers Lettuce Basil Nothing going to waste this week. The tomatoes and peppers were of course used in the peach and pepper recipes, any leftover tomatoes along with…
This past weekend I finally made it to our local farmer’s market. The four year-old wasn’t hard to convince to ride along, her knows there are fresh donuts at the end of the trip. I was pleasantly surprised there was no line! Peaches is what I was after, though I could not pass up the…
Saturday’s downpours turned to sunny blue skies just in time for the beer to start flowing at the Oak Park Micro Brew Review. Thank you beer gods! Too bad they didn’t intervene and do away with the crazy long line for ID checks, but hey it was smooth sailing once we were in the event….
Next week is back to school week. I swear every summer feels shorter and shorter. We never get to everything on our list before the back to school rush begins. No choice but to dive right in I guess. This year we will be dealing with a new school and a new routine. My daughter…
Purple, red, green — this week’s CSA box was gorgeous… And the scent of the basil was to die for, and we got tons of it. There were a lots of goodies this week, here is what it included… Juliet Tomatoes Sun Gold Tomatoes Slicing Tomatoes Eggplant Broccoli Green Pepper Lettuce Basil I am so…
I made enough lentils this week to feed a small village, not sure what the heck I was thinking. After eating them all week I still had a good amount left. Lentil burgers it is! Red onions were stored from our pre-vacation CSA box that I wanted to get used up. I was hoping to…
Last month at the garden tour of Rick Bayless’ garden I learned about a really cool green space project on the rail line that borders his yard, The Bloomingdale Trail. The idea is to build a linear park on the now unused railroad tracks. Very cool! Oh and I finally posted some additional pictures from…