One sure sign that autumn is upon us is apples (and apple cider!) everywhere you look, and apple is the scent that more than anything else, just completely rips me out of summer mode and starts my obsession with squash, pears, and everything else autumn.
So when I found out that one of my favorite food […]
You know, I just now noticed that I haven’t posted for 9 days? Sorry about that ::sheepish grin:::
No excuses, other than the general “haven’t felt up to it” and the fact we’ve been doing a lot of traveling in the past month or so. So I still haven’t really settled down and let things get […]
Since my husband is working from home today, we decided to go out together for a late lunch - it was almost 2:30 before we even made the decision, so most lunch spots were out of the question because they stopped lunch service at 2. After thinking about it for a few minutes, I suggested […]
I unfortunately missed the last week of One Local Summer because I was travelling, but I didn’t want to finish out this year’s celebration of local food without having one last blowout. So armed with Saturday’s farmers market purchases, I made a farewell to summer feast that was almost 100% local.
I made a tomato-corn salad, […]
Today was the first time I went to the farmer’s market in three weeks. Last weekend I was on my way home from Florida, and the weekend before that, I knew I was going to Florida, so I didn’t want to buy anything because Paul won’t cook if I’m not around.
But oh, what a beautiful […]
After being inspired by the fantastic meal I had last week at the Columbia Restaurant in Tampa, we proceeded to take recipes from here and there and ended up with one of the best-tasting home-cooked meals we’ve ever made! Just like having a restaurant in your own house, but with a lot less hassle. […]
Back at last from another successful round of Taste the Future, *the* foodie event of the year that provides scholarships for up and coming culinary arts students at Columbus State.
I cannot put into words just how fantastic most of the food was, so I’ll let the pictures do the talking. Add to that fantastic weather (sunny, […]
The trip driving up I-75 had to be one of the longest of my life. Exit after exit of the same old fast food joints, gas stations, and hotel chains, with no way to differentiate one location to the next. Yuck. So homogeneous, so friggin sterile. So when I saw a billboard advertising “real pit […]
On Thursday, I spent most of the day driving back to Ohio, but even a driver has to eat sometimes. I had skipped breakfast and lunch, so by 4pm or so, I was starving. By that time, I was about two hours into the drive, and around the Tampa area.
For some reason, I had the […]
By Wednesday, I was definitely craving some real Cuban food. Not wanting to make the two hour drive to Miami, I figured the Cuban food I could get in the Fort Myers metro area would be at least as authentic as the Miami stuff, and definitely more authentic than I’m used to in Ohio. I […]
